Production gradually resumed in the Hillkin region. Some surviving workers had grown numb, while others hid their true selves. Under even harsher oppression, they struggled to survive, stripped of their freedom like slaves.
The remaining participants in the Hillkin Uprising vanished without a trace, as though they had never existed.
With advances in communication technology and the unusual nature of this uprising, news of the Hillkin Uprising quickly spread around the world, aided in part by the efforts of Dawn members.
Even in places like Dierjia and Bach, Dawn members submitted detailed accounts of the Hillkin Uprising to numerous newspapers.
Newspapers these days needed sensational news to capture the market. Some people even fabricated stories. A story as compelling as the Hillkin Uprising was sure to attract readers with just a few alterations, and some published it without changing anything at all.
Some newspapers in the Bassman United Kingdom were particularly eager to disparage the Ilkhan Royal Family. They dwelled on how helpless the Ilkhan nobles had been in suppressing the lowborn workers, even having to resort to deception and other tricks.
People of different social positions and classes viewed the newspaper accounts differently. Some read them for entertainment, some reflected on their methods of governance, while workers at the bottom whose circumstances resembled those in Hillkin mostly felt grief and anger.
Meanwhile, even without newspapers, certain things were inevitable. The existence of the Workers' Party provoked hostility from many nobles and capitalist interests. That went without saying in the Ilkhan Kingdom, but several other countries also deliberately banned most of Moor's published books, including the Dilga Empire.
But all this had been foreseeable. As Moor had said, they did it because the enemy feared them.
Although the Hillkin Uprising had ended, the spirit of struggle born from it had