Winter was coming to an end, and spring was coming.
Spring was the season of life. Everything was revived, and the earth would be covered with green, red flowers, green grass, green mountains, and clear waters. Even the animals had completely recovered their vitality after the long winter. They began to reproduce and start another cycle of life.
But today's spring was different.
It was very cold.
It was not only the air that was cold, but also people's hearts.
The calendar on the Main Plane was similar to that on Earth. Here, the year was also divided into four seasons, and the day with the shortest day of the year — the winter solstice — was the new year. This calendar was simple and crude, but it was very convincing.
The winter solstice was the middle point of winter. One and a half months after the winter solstice was the beginning of spring. And in the last one and a half months, the first half of the month was almost the coldest.
Generally speaking, if there was a war, most people would choose winter. It was mainly because the farmers had nothing to do in winter and were very idle.
And for the Orcs, fighting in winter could consume a lot of population, save food, and optimize the population. It was a policy worthy of affirmation and praise.
Sui Xiong floated on the balcony of the Void City Hall, looking at the sky in the east.
The war clouds had almost condensed into a solid, iron-gray color, making people feel very uncomfortable looking at them.
"I don't know how many people will die in this war!" He sighed deeply and shook his head.
"After all, it is their own choice." Leon stood beside him and said calmly, "We will try to protect the refugees and stop the massacre, but we can't stop them from fighting. If people want to die, others can't do anything about it. "
Sui Xiong nodded, but still couldn't help but sigh.
He loved life and hated war. In his eyes, it was a blasphemy to use the lives of tens of thousands of people to fight for worldly possessions such as land, wealth, power, and status.
But he couldn't stop this war because both sides wanted to fight.
Just like Leon said, this was a choice made by both humans and Orcs.
Even if only one side didn't want to fight this war, Sui Xiong would stand on the side that was forced to fight, and use his fists to persuade the attacker to give up the war. However, both sides wanted to fight, and both wanted to kill until blood flowed like a river and corpses were everywhere. He had no other way.
These days, he has been calling for peace and for people to withdraw from the war. Whether it was humans, orcs, or other races involved in this war, as long as they were willing to withdraw from the war, Sui Xiong was willing to give them protection. He would let them escape from the flames of war and live in the Republic, which was like a paradise.
But everything he did was not very effective.
Indeed, there were many mortals who believed in him who decided not to participate in the war. They were brought from all over the world to the Republic of Northwest and settled down there. But more people were willing to participate in the war. For mortals, faith was important, but their own lives, their own families, their own likes and dislikes … these were just as important.
For example, the Eagle Kingdom had been fighting with the Orcs all year round. Almost every family had an elder who had died on the northern battlefield. In order to completely defeat the Orcs, almost none of them were willing to withdraw from this war. However, many of Sui Xiong's clergymen, after praying and apologizing to Sui Xiong, took off their robes embroidered with the sacred jellyfish emblem, put on their armor, picked up their weapons, and walked to the battlefield.
As for the Mifata Federation, even in the four-city alliance with the Grey Tower City as the core, many scholars and mages walked out of their study, picked up their wands that they rarely used, took off their scholar robes, and changed into mage robes. They went to the military camp to gather.
These scholars knew a lot, so their hearts were filled with a greater sense of responsibility for the entire human race. Even if they had to go against the orders of the gods, they had to participate in this war and fight for the future of mankind.
Not to mention places like Garth City, large numbers of young adults rushed to the north, to the Kingdom of Light, to throw themselves into the battlefield of blood and fire. Leon had wanted to use forceful means to stop all this, but Sui Xiong rejected it.
"If the sky wants to rain, and if the mother wants to marry, let them be," Sui Xiong said in a very open-minded tone. "As long as they don't regret it, it's fine."
"These guys are not pious at all!" Leon said unhappily.
"People live for themselves first, and then for others," Sui Xiong said with a smile. "No matter what choice they make this time, as long as they don't point their swords at the church members, I will still welcome them back in the future."
"Your Majesty … you are too generous! Blindly being generous like this won't do! "
"Why not?" Sui Xiong smiled. "The reason why I want to become as strong as possible, is so that I can say, 'Because I want to, so there is nothing wrong'?"
Leon was speechless. In the end, he chose to move those people in Garth City who were unwilling to participate in this war, and temporarily moved to the Republic of Northwest to live.
Of course, there was no way to move the city, but as long as the important things were taken away, the rest did not matter.
The place where the people of Garth were, was Garth City. Without the people of Garth, it was nothing more than an empty city.
All of this naturally relied on Sui Xiong's incredible and vast divine power. When the immigrants saw a city in the Ashes Forest that was exactly the same as the Garth where they used to live, they were all stunned.
In fact, it was very simple for Sui Xiong. It was nothing more than scanning the appearance of the whole city, and then finding a place to mold the land into a corresponding shape.
Although the project was huge, it only took about ten days.
The other territories belonging to the Republic of Northwest did not choose to move. After all, they were very far from the battlefield. The Geerteng territory was in the central east of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, adjacent to the Graystone Mountains; the Dahl territory was in the south of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, slightly east of the Great Marsh; the Keane territory was in the prosperous area in the south-central part of the Duchy of Thunder; the Gray Tower Alliance of the four cities was in the north-central part of the Commonwealth of Mifata, near the Ancient Forest.
Compared with Garth City, which was not far from the Kingdom of Light and was an important commercial port of the whole continent, they were considered safe areas far away from the battlefield. Of course, there was no need to move.
Even so, a large number of people from all over the country who believed in Sui Xiong and were unwilling to participate in the war headed to the Republic of Northwest. Of course, most of them came from the Kingdom of the Blue Moon.
This group of people brought great pressure to the housing of the Republic of Northwest, and it also stretched the land that had been developed.
People in this world were not used to living in "pigeon cage" apartments, and neither Void City nor other cities in the Republic of Northwest could accommodate so many residents.
They needed to develop more land and settle more residents. Not only must they have a place to live, but they must also have a place to work, rest, and entertain.
Therefore, something that had been planned for a long time, and many people had made a lot of preparations, was finally going to be implemented.
Purify the entire Ashes Forest!
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