‘Do the same thing? Can’t be…’

The nobles of the Western region of the Strabus Kingdom surrendered their territories to Queen Leila after just a couple letters from her. They had easily passed over their territories after receiving recognition for their title and acknowledgement of their estates; something that they wouldn’t have gotten from the Republicans. Like Aesop’s fable, it was much more efficient and quicker to take something away with the Sun’s strength than it was to forcefully take something like the Northern Wind had tried. If you think about it, it was something that the Valence Kingdom could do just as well to the Southern region of the former Strabus Kingdom.

Queen Leila read Fuhrer’s anxiety on his face and riled him up even further.

“And that’s not all, is it? You haven’t even stabilized your conquered territory. Would the people and the leaders of the occupied area just let it go if you continued to fight an impossible war? Sporadic resistance groups would most likely spring up everywhere.”

“You have a reason for being so sure about that?”

“It’s national pride. Not to mention, the people of the Strabus Kingdom have an extreme aversion to Republican affairs to begin with. You should know that better than me.”

‘Of course, I’ll also be secretly fanning the flames,’ Queen Leila thought to herself. 

The more Queen Leila continued...