Chapter 20 Questions and Answers

Almost no one noticed that after the bloody and mired battle, Winters Montagne fell into a kind of passive mood.

Or rather, Winters didn't want anyone to notice, so no one did.

It was a strange kind of fatigue, specifically manifesting as "seemingly there are many things to be done, but in reality very little can be accomplished".

New Town on the southern shore, starving refugees, a military school that exists only on paper, Pierre and Vashka who have gone missing... It was a tangled mess of countless concerns, yet it seemed he could hardly do anything.

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Day by day, Revodan's food storage diminished, and Iron Peak County was on the verge of famine.

Winters sent Tamas to restore traffic with Mont Blanc County and organize the backlog transportation of goods by various merchants in Iron Peak County.

But he could not address the fundamental problem. Until next summer's harvest, Iron Peak County had to rely on external food supply.

So he could only wait.