"Alright, let’s do it this way!
Listen up, little humans: an eight-hundred-year truce, and you’ll cede a million square kiloters from your controlled zone, then this matter will be over."
Urtado roared carelessly.
The atmosphere on site beca oppressive all of a sudden, and the human strongn all glared angrily.
If looks could kill dragons, only dragon at would remain before them.
"Dragon Emperor, aren’t you overreaching?
Such humiliating conditions aren’t even worth negotiating.
If you want a fight, then let’s fight; our Human Race will accompany you to the end!"
Hudson retorted directly.
As the Human Marshal, he had to remain tough on such occasions.
Negotiations are fine, but if not, it’s off to war.
There were so many human strongn still alive on site; pressing too hard and dragging these golden dragons down with them wouldn’t be a problem at all.
As for how things would wrap up after the battle, that was a post-war issue.
Anyway, as long as it wasn’t him who died, Hudson wouldn’t shy away!
The situation beca deadlocked again, and even the magical beasts who had been quarreling incessantly were now drawn in by the spectacle and stopped arguing.
"Ha ha...
What’s so great about fighting? Everything can be negotiated.
Everyone just needs a bit more patience; let’s take out the disputed terms and break them down one by one for discussion!"
The most bloodthirsty Demonic Beast Nine-headed Lion actually played the diator role, and if this news spread, it could shock the whole continent.
There is no doubt that the Golden Dragon Emperor Urtado wasn’t stupid either.
He knew that the humans had a solid foundation with no advantage in Sanctuary powerhouses, but a heap of strongn below them.
If the negotiations failed and a bloody battle ensued, the humans would have the upper hand with their mid-range power.
Unless the Dragon Race and the Warcraft Clan stepped in personally, the Anti-Human Alliance’s defeat was only a matter of ti.
The fact that negotiation was happening now was because the human strongn hadn’t had enough of life yet and temporarily didn’t want to trade their lives for their race’s future.
If you pushed them too hard, who knows what would happen.
The Humans had previously cornered the Alien Coalition, leading many strongn to choose a life-for-life approach.
Urtado ca with a purpose and wasn’t about to gamble the lives of the Dragon Race’s descendants for the benefits of the Elf Race.
Seeing a turn of events, he simply gave up the negotiation floor, allowing the human and elf representatives to engage in verbal warfare.
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As ti ticked by, after much dawdling, both sides finally reached an agreent by dusk.
According to the treaty:
1. In principle, both sides will use the current controlled zones as the boundary line for the two major camps.
2. The Alpha Kingdom needs to return so territory to the Orcs and the Ancient Remnant Clan Alliance, while the Anti-Human Alliance returns so land to the Three Kingdoms in the Central Continent.
3. From the date of the treaty’s signing, neither camp may reignite war for eight hundred years.
On the surface, all angles seed to be considered, but in reality, those considered were the sacrifices.
The ’part’ returning of territories ant that this ’part’ wasn’t clearly defined in the treaty.
If it wasn’t for the sake of appearances, this clause wouldn’t have appeared in the ceasefire treaty at all.
When it cos to actual implentation, it entirely depended on the moral standards of the vested interests.
Hudson had already thought of how to handle it. Returning the orcs’ land, he would just assign it to the servant army.
After all, they’re all orcs, and there’s no rule about which orc tribe it had to be.
Guessing the Anti-Human Alliance would do the sa, only symbolically relinquishing so hard-to-control badlands to address the treaty.
Under the witness of twelve golden dragons and a group of magical beasts, the strongn of the two races signed the ceasefire agreent.
With a lingering glance at the pockmarked land, the two alliances disbanded on the spot.
Retrieving bodies was out of the question; in battles of this scale, even if a whole corpse was left by chance, the battle aftermath would have left bones unscathed.
There was noise upon arrival, but when leaving, everyone’s spirits were low.
This ceasefire agreent clearly did not et the initial expectations.
Uncertain if it was a coincidence, the proportion of veteran strongn who died in action was exceptionally high, whereas so weaker newcors survived instead.
"Marshal, the continental war is over. Can the dispatched armies be recalled early?"
The Dark Elf Queen asked with concern.
Participating in this great war, with the Dark Elf Clan as targets of focus by the elves, they indeed suffered greatly.
Gaining nothing in return, they lost five Sanctuary powerhouses.
From now on, only she, the queen, would hold the front alone.
"Rest assured, the dispatched expeditionary forces will soon return; just go back and wait for news."
Hudson replied without changing his expression.
The war arranged specifically for eliminating hidden dangers ended suddenly, which didn’t an the matter was over.
You might dodge the first one, but you won’t dodge the fifteenth; the Kingdom would definitely take subsequent asures.
Compared to these minor issues, Hudson was focused on the aftermath.
The biggest problem with a continental war that leaves both sides badly injured is that there’s not enough pie to go around.
All countries suffered greatly, and with the Alpha Kingdom drinking and feasting alone, it was clearly brewing resentnt.
However, expecting the Kingdom to give up acquired benefits for nothing was not going to happen.
With the ceasefire treaty signed, the Alpha Kingdom wouldn’t need to share pressure with other countries for hundreds of years; earlier verbal promises naturally won’t count.
The Orc Prairie was taken independently by the Kingdom Army; if anyone wanted a share, they’d have to offer equivalent interests in exchange.
After a brief contemplation, Hudson soon cast these thoughts aside.
The back-and-forth with other countries would naturally be handled by the Foreign Affairs Departnt. Whatever the final outco, that would be Caesar IV’s headache.
Frankly, Caesar IV was quite unlucky.
In the previous battles, Alpha the First almost perished; the tily ceasefire spared his life.
The aftereffect was that this founding master, stimulated by it, beca increasingly focused on seizing power.
Along the way, he continued to foster close relations with various Sanctuary, and a bit of goodwill wasn’t enough to make everyone rebel with him.
But during his power seizure, ensuring everyone’s silence wasn’t much of a problem.
What surprised Hudson was that the usually active Princess Madelena had beco uncharacteristically quiet this ti.
Alpha the First tried to win people over everywhere, yet she didn’t jump out to undermine him.
Whether they reached an agreent privately or were planning so mantis catches a cicada, unaware of the oriole behind tactic, it was anyone’s guess.
It didn’t involve him, so Hudson feigned ignorance.
By continental custom, as long as it didn’t involve rebellion, the nobles were entitled to refuse participation in internal royal conflicts.
...
Canglan City, Jade Palace.
The celebration banquet was fully prepared, but unfortunately, the main characters were absent.
Once within the Kingdom, nurous Sanctuary powerhouses gradually left the group.
Upon reaching the Royal Palace, only Hudson and a few royal strongn remained.
After briefly recounting the situation on the battlefield, the atmosphere in the great hall turned heavy.
"With the Dragon Race and magical beasts interfering in continental conflicts, it seems Our Human Race’s desire to unify the continent remains an arduous journey!
Fortunately, we insisted on prioritizing the destruction of the Orc Empire; otherwise, this continental war would have been for nothing again!"
After hearing Caesar IV’s sigh, everyone revealed expressions of relief.
If the Kingdom had taken into account the bigger picture, and after defeating the Orc Army, directly proceeded to battle the Elf Army, they would surely be tearing up in the great hall by now.
"Your Majesty, with the situation having developed to this point, internal strife within the Human Race may arise again.
Especially the Three Kingdoms in the Central Continent, whose resentnt towards the Kingdom has likely accumulated to the extre.
Even over at the Moxi Duchy, changes might also occur.
With the signing of the ceasefire treaty, the Five Nations Alliance is highly likely to have reached its end.
There’s no need to ntion the countries in the South Continent at this point, who are probably all envious of the Kingdom.
For a long future period, our diplomatic situation will not be very favorable.
To prevent the worst-case scenario, the Departnt of Foreign Affairs believes that the Kingdom should take the initiative.
Seize the opportunity while the Black Forest Kingdom is leaderless, support a mber of the Black Forest Royal Family to ascend to power, to strengthen our influence in the Central Continent!"
The words of Earl Herwin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, were like mixing a spoonful of water into a pot of boiling oil.
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