Chapter 715
San Antonio was an ancient and powerful human mega empire that would be a candidate for the most powerful country in Eich .
San Antonio's territory was incredibly vast, and included the golden plains that was the beastmen's homeland, the wide mountain ranges to the south, and even a coastal wetlands region . It could be said that San Antonio had abundant resources and tremendous population .
Compared to other human mega empires, San Antonio treated other species more moderately . Perhaps this was because its territory was simply too vast . There were many gathering grounds for other species on the border of where humans lived, such as dwarven or gnome gathering grounds . San Antonio had astonishing combat potential .
San Antonio's rulers in history had also been quite intelligent . They were quite good at strategy . Unlike Bardi, Auland, Suolo Federation, Xiluo, and other such powerful countries that liked to use forceful means, San Antonio preferred to use strategy to resolve their problems .
And compared to the elves who always managed to shoot themselves in the foot, San Antonio's diplomatic strategy was far slyer .
For instance, in the Northlands, San Antonio supported the Kasolan Kingdom (Dukedom) . The archduke of Kasolan also held the status of being a noble of San Antonio . Basically, this helped San Antonio to establish a wall of defense against the beastmen in the north, as well as placing a spy inside the Northlands .
When San Antonio noticed that it would be impossible for them to prevent the Northlands countries from allying together to form the Mist Alliance, and with the pressure from other major countries, San Antonio simply abandoned Kasolan, and even summoned back its general and San Antonio nobility in the Northlands .
Strategically speaking, this would doubtlessly be the best course of action . Retracting one's defense lines before the Holy War should be a good thing . There was also no more need to be on guard against the Northlands beastmen . Being able to unhesitatingly abandon useless "limbs" was evidence of San Antonio's strategical wisdom .
Right before the Holy War, San Antonio even started several wars and conquered several small countries, but when San Antonio confirmed the danger of the Holy War, they unhesitatingly returned the land to those small countries .
San Antonio had the #1 population of all countries, was the #1 producer of food, was #1 in industrial potential, and had the #1 economy . In all areas, San Antonio led the world .
However, a certain matter had been greatly weakening San Antonio's strength over the past several years .
Internal warfare . What apart from this would swiftly cause a decline in national strength?
San Antonio's ruler, Emperor Hant the Second, suddenly died unexpectedly . His brother Winston, who held quite some power, started a war against Princess Maria . The war lasted for three and a half years, with no victor in the end .
The ever worsening situation of the Holy War caused the two factions to decide that they should make peace with each other . If I recalled correctly, San Antonio was now split up into two large territories across the golden plains and golden channel . The northern portion belonged to Prince Winston, while the southern portion belonged to Empress Maria .
In name, Empress Maria was the rightful heir . However, her rule was only effective across 40% of San Antonio's land, ruling over 35% of San Antonio's population . Prince Winston had been the prime minister of the San Antonio Empire, and in his territory, everyone treated him like an emperor .
It should also be mentioned that Prince Winston was also simultaneously the leader of the empire's royal knight order . More than 70% of royal knights were loyal to him . Meanwhile, Empress Maria was the strongest demon warlock in the world . Her mage groups and army of familiars were the largest mage army in the entire land .
Originally, the citizens of San Antonio had loathed Empress Maria for being a demon warlock . However, she proved to everyone by slaying countless demons in bloody battle that she wasn't allied with the Chaos Abyss . It was quite effective for her to use the Chaos Abyss's power against itself .
What I found the most inconceivable was that Maria was also Ayer's Divine Envoy . This meant that Death God Ayer favored her tremendously . In fact, she was even capable of borrowing Ayer's power, which I found rather incomprehensible .
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