Generally speaking, when some people won, some people lost. When one party celebrated, it was often when the other party failed and became depressed. Even if it was a so-called "win-win" situation, it was inevitable that there would be people who were not on good terms with either party secretly jealous, and some were even so jealous that they hid at home and drank alone.
But this time was different.
The death of the God of Conspiracy truly made all the forces and organizations in the world feel happy.
The grand celebration lasted for about a month. During this month, even many places that had been at war temporarily restored peace. Even with this celebration as an opportunity, many originally very fierce conflicts were eased, and many wars were put on hold. Even the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs, who had always wanted to attack the Dwarf Kingdom again, took this opportunity to announce peace negotiations with the Dwarf Kingdom.
The reason of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was naturally dignified. The death of the God of Conspiracy was such a joyous event that they had to properly celebrate. On such a joyous day, it was so inappropriate to talk about fighting and killing! They might as well take this opportunity to talk about peace and cooperation.
Because of the help of the Orc Empire, the strength of the Dwarf Kingdom had greatly increased. Even though Sui Xiong was no longer lying in front of the fortress of the Dwarf Kingdom as a "city wall," the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was not sure that they could win this war easily.
War, in the end, was about gaining benefits. If there were no benefits, or if the benefits were too small to make up for the losses, or if the benefits were great but the losses were too great, it would be difficult to continue the war.
The main reason why the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was able to maintain their attacks on the Dwarf Kingdom was that they were able to gain a lot from every battle, while their losses were relatively limited — the most dangerous and fatal tasks were all done by the mercenaries. Although the rest of the tasks would still result in casualties, compared to the profits, the level of casualties was not even worth mentioning.
It was precisely because of this reason that the people of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs were happy to hear about war, and they were enthusiastic about launching invading wars. In the end, they became a military power with a small territory, but in terms of combat power, they could look down on any other country on the Main Plane.
Back then, they were even so confident that they wanted to invade the Commonwealth of Mifata through large-scale transmission arrays. Such bravery was really terrifying.
But when the Kingdom of Dwarves received help from the Orc Empire and used the time Sui Xiong bought for them to strengthen their defense, the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs became a little hesitant. They had originally planned to wait for the number of civilian mercenaries to increase before recruiting new mercenaries to fight this war. But who knew that because of the civil strife in the Commonwealth of Mifata and the confrontation between the North and the South of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, most of the adventurers would go to these two countries to make a living. And then, because of the movement to adopt the surname of the commoners, many of the adventurers who had originally planned to "earn their last bit of money before retiring" chose to retire early one after another. They wanted to pass on their family's legacy … As a result, the war became more difficult to fight, and there were fewer cannon fodder. The long-term strategy of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs had suffered a major setback.
Under such circumstances, the ministers of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs, after some discussion, decided to change their thinking and temporarily adjust the national policy.
In any case, the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was already strong enough. They could continue to develop by slowly managing their own territory. Perhaps, in another one or two hundred years, things might change again--that was quite possible.
Based on this idea, they sent out messengers to try to discuss the issue of peace with the Kingdom of Dwarves.
The higher-ups of the Kingdom of Dwarves did not agree on the matter of "negotiating peace with the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs." Some people felt that this was a good opportunity to fight for hundreds of years of peace and stability, while others suspected that this was a plot by the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs to numb themselves and look for an opportunity to launch an attack.
However, the attitude of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was quite sincere this time. They even expressed that they could ask a few large churches to act as notaries.
For something like an alliance, if there was no god to notarize it, it was just a piece of waste paper. But if there was a god to notarize it, then it would have a strong binding force. Especially if a few gods were to notarize it, then the reliability of the alliance would be very good, and there would be no need to worry about it being torn apart.
This was like on Earth, when two groups of forces discussed a ceasefire, there might not be much credibility. But if it was the five big shots of the United Nations who joined forces and ordered them to cease the war, then even if they wanted to continue fighting, they would have to consider what would happen if they angered the five big shots and were attacked by a "Masked Team United Attack."
Of course, there were fierce people who did not take the five big shots seriously, but such fierce people were rare in the world, and most of them did not end up well. The last person who did not take the five big shots seriously was called Colonel Ka — when Sui Xiong traveled to this world, he was already "dead Colonel Ka."
This was still on Earth. If it was in this world, would you dare to make fun of a few gods? Haha, that was not a problem that could be solved by dying once!
Speaking of which, it was quite interesting. Among the gods that the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs invited to be the notaries of the alliance was Sui Xiong.
It was because they invited Sui Xiong to be the notaries that the Kingdom of Dwarves expressed their willingness to accept this alliance after a heated discussion.
After all, even if the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was not reliable, His Majesty the Void Mask was undoubtedly reliable. If the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs really wanted to go against His Majesty the Void Mask and humiliate him, then the history of this country would enter a countdown.
At that time, perhaps the Kingdom of Dwarves would not even need to do anything. His Majesty the Void Mask's anger alone would be enough to completely destroy the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs!
Shortly after the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs and the Kingdom of Dwarves signed the agreement, a secret agreement was also signed within the Commonwealth of Mifata.
The two parties who signed the agreement were the higher-ups of the Commonwealth of Mifata and the Church of Void Mask. The content of the agreement was generally divided into two parts: the first part, the Commonwealth of Mifata recognized the right of the Church of Void Mask to preach freely, and promised not to persecute the believers of the Church of Void Mask for religious reasons, and not to launch military attacks on the areas that had already declared independence because of the Church of Void Mask. The second part, the Church of Void Mask promised not to encourage other areas to declare independence. Even if a city was controlled by the Church of Void Mask in the future, it would still remain in the Commonwealth of Mifata.
This agreement was generally fair. Although many people in the Church of the Void Mask felt that His Majesty was too generous and that there was no need to give such favorable conditions, Sui Xiong stood his ground and made the final decision on this matter.
In private meetings, he explained to the higher-ups of the Church of Void Mask that if the Commonwealth of Mifata could maintain the current situation, then it was not a bad thing for everyone to live in peace. After all, it was a country that had a good chance of becoming a republic. And if the Commonwealth of Mifata continued to weaken, when it really could not hold on anymore, it was still unknown which side this country would take.
"Maybe … at that time, the whole Commonwealth of Mifata will hang the jellyfish flag …"
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