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Chapter 201

Chapter 201: After-combat Dealings

Translator: imperfectluck  Editor: imperfectluck

 

There were no true victors in a battle . Unlike those legends and epics, war would only leave behind hatred and rubble, plus endless generations of revenge chains .

Most ordinary people didn’t enjoy battles, but why did battles still exist? Probably still because of personal interests - as long as disagreements and clashes had no better or more effective method of being mediated, plus the fact of ambitious individuals always secretly manipulating and inciting things behind the scenes, battles would never end .

In this battle that involved the entire Northlands, the beastmen did it for their ancestral homeland, while the elves participated hoping to return to their former glory . From their standpoints, they didn’t do anything wrong .

And from the standpoint of history, the factions that started the battles would typically be the biggest losers in the end, and this battle was no different from any other battle in history, with every species fighting for their own race to have more space to live in .

But some things couldn’t simply be measured by right and wrong . No matter what the reason for starting this battle was, that wouldn’t change the fact that so much blood had now soaked into the icy Northlands, with so many souls having cursed the Gods and the invaders before their deaths . Each species’ relationships with each other that were just beginning to thaw were now at rock bottom once again .

"Someone needs to pay the price!"

An after-combat reckoning was basically now the norm . Those who lost in the battle would be dragged into a court to receive an absolutely unfair judgement . In such times, even the fairest judges would selectively go temporarily blind and hand out numerous death sentences due to the surviving victims’ crying tears and angry shouts .

Alright, I knew that it was all rather meaningless, but it was indeed a way to vent .

Not only was it a sacrifice to help appease the spirits of the dead that died despite doing nothing wrong, and it could help the survivors to vent . Having the guilty receive judgement was also the fastest way to aid the survivors in clearing their grudges and returning to a normal way of life .

But after this particular battle, we ran into some problems with the typical after-combat reckoning .

When comparing who had the most serious losses, perhaps even the pitiful Sleuweir Kingdom couldn’t compare to the beastmen that started this war . In this bloody battle, the plateau beastmen had lost most of their accumulated tribes that had developed over the past few centuries . It was obvious that they wouldn’t recover for a significantly long period of time after this battle, and because of the beastmen’s tradition where their tribe leaders personally led from the front, by far the large majority of well-known beastmen tribe leaders had all died in this battle .

"Kill those beastmen bastards, we want revenge! Why are their children and females innocent? Weren’t those beastmen killing our children and females for their sake? They can kill our children and women, so why can’t we kill theirs!"

After the glow of victory faded from having fortunately survived, the survivors looked at the hole-riddled world before them as they angrily shouted to attack back to the plateaus and kill all the beastmen and exterminate their entire species there .

The citizens’ grudges were quite difficult to deal with . Especially since they suffered so much from the war, some things were just impossible to use reason and logic on . I could talk an entire day about "non-aggression" and "not starting a new war," and wax philosophical about the endless vicious cycle of warfare, and all the citizens would need to say was "so we can’t take revenge? Why is it that only they can come kill us?" and all my efforts would be for naught .

" . . . Even without the ‘non-aggression’ premise, our country can’t afford another new war right now, not to mention that the remaining plateau beastmen would never allow the humans to slaughter them in revenge as we pleased . "

Just leaving the plateau beastmen alone would evidently be a future source of trouble for later generations, and I already had a plan for dealing with them, but now was obviously not the time to pick a new fight with them .

"Let’s find some scapegoats then . Perfect, there’s still a few that escaped and causing trouble around here, let’s kill them off to scare the rest of the beastmen . "

Perhaps I should "celebrate" that in the chilly winter night of the final battle, not all the beastmen died off . Even among the beastmen, there were some that were afraid of death, and there were several tribe leaders that didn’t bring their tribes into the meat grinder of death, instead choosing to secretly escape during the night .



But after their path of return became impossible for them, they would naturally transform themselves into dangerous guerilla bands for the sake of their own survival . That was why after the situation was slightly steadied, I sent out the entire squad of Aurora Knights to hunt these beastmen down .

So, even if their numbers weren’t all that many, with the impression that I created for them with my wanted posters calling them Camel Baba and the 40 Wolf Thieves, or the 3 Tigresses and the 105 male Beastmen, their wanted posters were put up everywhere . They were quickly captured and the prison carts where they were held would enter every city and parade about so that the survivors could spit upon them and toss rocks at them, and finally, they would receive judgement for their crimes, and pretty much all of them would end up being hanged .

History had plenty of evidence that any invaders who failed in their invasion would end up as the most pitiful group of all from the war . Their territory would end up being taken, they would definitely have revenge taken upon them and a reckoning awaited them, nobody would take pity on them for their losses, as they deserved what they got . They were both the victims of war as well as the murderers who started the battle .

Apart from these tangible and intangible things, the victors would also never give the losers another chance to rise up again out of consideration for the future . There would definitely be numerous strict restrictions forced upon the losers, and the invaders that had been so proud when they started the war would have to accept even the most stringent of conditions in order to live on, no matter how humiliated they were .


And these stringent conditions and humiliating restrictions would always intensify the conflict between them, and sow the seeds for a new, future war .

This was why I was especially careful with the treatment of the beastmen after the war . Even though I already prepared a plan beforehand, I still invited advisers over for detailed discussions with me .

With my encouragement, each adviser gave their own opinions, but they were all nothing more than common ideas, what with trade restrictions, cutting off their food supplies, forcing the beastmen to give us hostages and pay a reparation fee . I almost wanted to fall asleep from listening to these boring, standard ideas .

"Hmph, trade restrictions? Even if they wanted to trade, are there still any merchants trading with the beastmen? Any human merchants that would dare would probably get killed off as spies . Cut their food supplies? Let’s first finish remapping the area since Emordilorcan randomly changed all the topography . Force the beastmen to give us hostages and reparation fees? You should at least do your homework first, there’s so many beastmen tribes, just which do you want to give you hostages and reparations? If you force them too much, then it’ll just be another battle . "

But when an adviser named Pierobs gave his idea, I woke up immediately due to having a scare .

"The archaic system of tribe leaders needs to be eliminated; only communism can save the world! In order to completely eradicate inequality and conflict from the world, we need a complete revolution to pull out the old dictatorship systems by the roots . . . "



The previous non-creative ideas made me drowsy, but this adviser was too creative, wanting to eliminate the foundation of this world’s ruling feudal system based on nobles and royalty? He was quite daring, as more than 70% of the countries in this world were monarchy-based, so he could be considered heretical of being executed just for his beliefs .

" . . . Cut off the heads of those selfish tribe leaders that only care about themselves, and create a brand-new society, making the foolish beastmen create a new high-efficiency communist society, which will . . . "

I couldn’t help but take another look at this guy that typically seemed so peaceful and quiet . This youngster was animated to the point where his saliva was flying everywhere, his fists were clenched tightly, his eyebrows were jumping up and down, seeming like he had endless amounts of rage within him, similar to that legendary revolutionary from my previous life . To spout such an unrealistic concept in a feudal age, I was even beginning to suspect if he was actually a transmigrator .

" . . . allow us to demand reparations and hostages from them!"

Okay, I retract my previous thoughts, this is just an insane man . After coming around full circle, he was still focused on obtaining combat reparations and hostages?"

"Milord, apologies, Pierobs is in a bad shape these days, he just received an emotional impact because he was dumped by his girlfriend, and he recently hit his head on a rock, so he’s recently been a little . . . "

Another adviser wiggled his finger and then pointed at Pierobs’ head, indicating that Pierobs was a little funny in the head . Right after, Pierobs seemed to become even more animated, while his fellow advisers hurriedly began dragging him away, worried that he would spout something even more ridiculous .

" . . . You rotten bastards left over from the useless feudal age will never be able to defeat the Saint farmer warriors . The foolish kings will all have their heads chopped off, and the mighty rise of communism is foreordained, this will be a blizzard, this will be a huge blizzard that nobody will be able to avoid . You foolish . . . "

Okay, his companions finally succeeded in gagging his mouth, and things finally quieted down as he was being dragged away while still struggling violently .

"Shut up! Ahhh! Don’t bite me! I’m helping you, stop biting me!"



"Cough, it seems that some of our advisers are under too much pressure, and need some time to recuperate . Go ahead and give him half a year of vacation, and if he still needs more rest, give him another additional half a year . "

Even though I said this, the conference room still remained silent . I knew that if this continued, there wouldn’t be any result, so I could only toss out my own prepared plan .

"Didn’t Centaur Anya say that her tribe also wanted to come aboveground? Actually, the plateau is a nice place, and definitely much better than the dark underground, so let’s have them come . Our participation will only increase the conflict, and beastmen have their own rules, so in order to deal with beastmen, we should leave it to other beastmen . . . "

After chattering on for several hours, I was finally able to resolve this issue, but the second issue was even more of a headache .

"The elves? They’re truly such trouble . "

If I tried my hardest to find who was the unluckiest in this battle, the elves would probably be my number one choice . Their Guardian God ended up dying, the four major elven kingdoms’ main armies were completely wiped out, and while only Tassel Kingdom among them still had some combat capabilities remaining, all of Tassel Kingdom’s royalty was dead, and it was difficult to say if their remaining combat capabilities even counted as elves .

From a certain standpoint, the Tassel royalty was also one of the main perpetrators, but their previous King Adrian died together in body and soul together with Felix’s death, and if I punished the banshee Suana who had always been anti-war, that wouldn’t be the right thing to do either .

But this wasn’t even the greatest trouble, as the biggest problem was how their environment ended up suddenly changing . After their unnatural bending of nature for several thousand years was finally broken, the life-threatening climate became the strictest challenge for their lives, and most of the remaining elves were still fighting against the weather just in order to survive .

"Forget it, let’s stop considering these things, and save them from their disaster first . Otherwise, with all of them dead, this will be nothing but an empty discussion . "

The Borealis was already finished with the preparations . After it finished unloading the mined metals obtained from the barbarian tribes, the second disaster relief squad was to use it to arrive before the first relief squad, and I was also a member of this second disaster relief squad .

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