Chapter 295. All Those Years, and Still Nothing Learned? (1)
Spring had arrived at the Imperial Palace of the Orias Empire. Under a flawless sky, the warm sunlight of the season poured down across the palace grounds, where countless attendants moved with haste and purpose.
"The honored guests are arriving!"
"The conference will begin soon—secure the perimeter thoroughly!"
"Is the banquet preparation complete? Check everything one last time!"
"Be ready for any possible incidents!"
Today marked the long-delayed opening of the Second Continental Peace Summit, postponed by an entire year beyond its original schedule. Since it was the first day of the summit, palace workers were scrambling to finalize preparations for their prestigious guests.
This summit was also a symbolic declaration—that the Orias Empire held dominion over the continent.
Compared to the first summit, which had opened with at least a glimmer of hope, expectations for the second were dismally low.
"Those lunatics who used to fight all the time are gonna start getting along?"
"His Majesty is wasting his energy on nonsense again. Tsk tsk."
"And he's even inviting beastkin we can't understand a word from..."
The intellectual class had long since turned cynical.