The Martial Unity

Chapter 2369: Geopolitical Ramifications

Chapter 2369: Geopolitical Ramifications

While the Shionel Confederation scrambled to mitigate the devastating shockwaves that had resulted from the death of Sage Lauren, the rest of the political sphere came up to speed with the situation and everything that had unfolded.

It was beyond shocking to learn that the East Panamic Treaty Alliance had gone so far with the Shionel Confederation to prove a point to all nations that had been seriously considering allying with the Kandrian Empire.

They had dispelled the notion that they were unable to inflict consequences on those that allied with the Kandrian Empire against them. Now, as Rui had feared, nations that had been receptive to the Kandrian Empire's offers started second-guessing themselves and reconsidering their inclinations.

Nonetheless, the news of the Kandrian Empire's protection and performance in the war also disseminated throughout East Panama rather swiftly as entire divisions and departments, created for the sole purpose of gathering intelligence on the state of the war, followed up on the battle that had occurred on the outskirts of Shionel territory.

If not for the fact that the Kandrian Empire managed to push back the enemies and staked their own Martial Artists in the battle, the war for allies would have been over then and there. Nobody would have wanted to ally with the Kandrian Empire if something like that had happened.

More importantly, in addition to having protected the Shionel mainland successfully, people paid attention to the outcomes of the battles.

Two dead Sages on both sides.

One side lost two powerful Sages, while the other side lost a peak Sage and a newly ascended Martial Sage. The Kandrian Empire had managed to come out on top simply thanks to the Devil living up to his name and successfully killing one of his counterparts.

This, combined with the fact that Sage Damian had managed to fight another one of his peers—who had been augmented by the healing fruits of the Tree of Healings—to a draw, was even more proof that the Kandrian Empire boasted the strongest Martial Sage in East Panama.

And they were right; the assault on the Shionel Confederation revealed that these battles were bound to get extremely bloody, resulting in massive losses on both sides, ultimately leading to a lose-lose situation.

Regardless, the assault on the Shionel Confederation shocked all the undecided potential allies out of the lull that had begun forming in the air during the war for allies. It was very easy for it to have done so when there were no big, flashy battles for the most part, just a large amount of indistinct battles and clashes happening at all Kandrian allies' borders.

This, however, was the first largest battle since the Kandria-Sekigahara battle. It shook the geopolitical landscape thoroughly. Its consequences could be felt across the entirety of East Panama.

For one, the Shionel Confederation supplied an absolutely enormous amount of goods and services to the entirety of East Panama; thus, the consequences of anything happening to it could be felt everywhere.

It rattled the remaining undecided potential allies in East Panama as they realized that the alliance was very serious about inflicting real consequences for siding with the Kandrian Empire but also for not choosing.

It only increased the amount of pressure that each nation experienced.

The geopolitical state fell into flux once more as what could be the most important phase of the war had begun.

Yet, many political analysts and other experts and pundits foresaw that while it would be the most important, it would not necessarily last very long.

There was simply too much pressure and turmoil for this phase of the war to last long. The tenser a situation was, the quicker it was resolved. And this was easily the tensest moment in the history of East Panama due to the sheer scale of the powers involved.

Human civilization watched with bated breaths as the war raged on. -