Chapter 374. You Shall Move Forward (3)
The joy of victory lasted only a moment before the tension began to rise again.
"Our soldiers suffered the most casualties! Naturally, we deserve a greater share of the spoils, don't you think?"
"How can you even say that? Do you know how many supplies we burned through?"
"Do you realize how many of our warships were destroyed?"
The air quickly turned venomous as factions began snapping at one another, each trying to seize even a slightly larger portion of the spoils.
It started with the commanders from the southern kingdoms and the Free City Union, their raised voices echoing through the ruins of the battlefield. The greed that had been kept barely in check during the war now surfaced like rot beneath cracked earth.
The soldiers who had fought side by side on the front lines still shared a bond forged by blood, but the same couldn't be said for their superiors, whose minds churned with calculations.
We need to secure as much as possible.
That's how we'll gain an advantage over the other nations.
Peace won't last long anyway.
This war's spoils will reshape the balance of the continent.
Even now, their eyes weren't on victory, but on what came after.