In May, Barishik was bustling with people.
The Frank Kingdom was clearly in a state of war, yet the Royal Capital was more prosperous than at any time in the past thirty years.
The reason was simple: with all parties' interests balanced, the Human Alliance had, for once, acted with rare efficiency.
Of course, it was also possible that if they hadn't acted efficiently, the Frank Kingdom might just have fended off the Beastmen on its own.
Marshal Grantham was reporting one victory after another. According to some analysts within the Human Alliance, if things continued like this, the Beastmen would probably collapse on their own before the Alliance's army even arrived.
After all, the Beastmen couldn't conjure food out of thin air.
