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Chapter 768 - 768 45 Unstoppable Ambition_1

768: Chapter 45, Unstoppable Ambition_1 768: Chapter 45, Unstoppable Ambition_1 Hudson, who had just returned from the construction site at Mountain Domain, was completely taken aback by the news from the Capital.

To tacitly allow the Black Forest Kingdom to annex the Columbia Country was one thing, but to personally set-up and frame another was a different story altogether.

Everyone initially agreed on a soothing policy, but nobody mentioned helping the Black Forest Kingdom swallow Columbia.

Recalling the diplomatic memo jointly issued by the two countries, Hudson realized his king had begun machinations.

Ultimately, Caesar IV was not one to keep quiet.

Just a few days after his ascension to the throne, he already could not help but act.

The busy meddling certainly wasn’t without gain.

One failed assassination attempt on the prince alone was not enough for Alpha Kingdom to pay such a heavy price.

Jointly issuing a diplomatic memo and playing the blame game, together, could hardly spare them of the joint divvying up of the spoils.

If they divide Columbia Country, the Kingdom could indeed reap immediate benefits in the short term, but once such a blatant precedent for framing is set, it will invite endless trouble!

Hudson could understand why the Black Forest Kingdom would do that.

Situated in a war zone during this major era of competition, it’s either expand or be eaten.

The strength of humans and the constraints of rules are inversely proportional.

The faster the racial strength grows, the less the rules matter to everyone.

The Orc Empire was ravaged, and the Human Race took over the Orc Prairie, but all other races merely mediated, without intervening with their troops.

At first, Hudson thought it was due to the Orcs inviting too much hatred, and the success of human diplomacy, that brought about this situation.

However, as his status grew and his understanding of continental politics deepened, Hudson discovered that was not the case.

In the face of racial survival, very few species would act rashly out of old hatred.

Watching the Human Race continually expand without taking action was equivalent to a slow suicide.

The truth is, after hundreds of years of continuous suppression, the living space of all the races on the mainland had been squeezed tremendously.

Over the past decades, the comprehensive strength of many races had declined instead of rising.

After the Orc Empire sent out distress signals, other races had also considered interfering militarily, but they were inhibited by their own limitations and could not reach the war happening in the Orc Empire.

Theoretically speaking, the combined strength of all other races on the Continent of Aslante is still above that of the Human Race.

Unfortunately, that’s only theoretical strength.

Major conflicts between different races are not lacking, and there is a lack of mutual trust, hence intimate cooperation is impossible.

Besides, they are all divided by the human countries across the continent.

Even if they could unite, they couldn’t gather in a short while.

If they hastily declared war to save the Orcs, the scattered races across the continent would not get any advantage; they would instead fall into the awkward situation of each fighting for themselves.

The final outcome would probably be that their scattered forces were individually defeated by concentrated human forces.

After the defeat of the Orc Empire, the strategically advantageous Human Race became more evidently dominant over other races.

Correspondingly, the sense of crisis among the high-ranking individuals of the Human Race began to decline, with everyone considering other races less and less of a threat.

With no external threat, their minds became active again, except they still held onto some moral baseline.

This operation by Caesar IV, doubtless, dragged everyone’s decency, which was already scarce, further down.

If the two countries successfully partition Columbia Country, then more will follow suit.

A new wave of annexation frenzy is imminent.

Now it depends on the ambition of the leaders of the major countries.

Those with big ambitions will condemn a few words verbally while stirring up ripples secretly, trying as much as possible to facilitate the annexation of Columbia by the two countries, to pave the way for their own expansion.

Those with less ambition will decisively take action to interfere, striving as much as possible to maintain the status quo.

Hudson felt helpless facing these uncontrollable changes.

Rules are things that can’t withstand disturbances.

Today you break one, tomorrow I break one, the day after tomorrow no one cares about the rules anymore.

As rules gradually lose their effectiveness and everyone’s moral baseline keeps being lowered, we will finally arrive at a period of “transition from the Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States”.

If this trend cannot be contained, the upcoming Continent of Aslante will become a much tougher place to get by.

Wanting to prevent it, Hudson lifted his pen again, however, he ended up putting it down again.

A diplomatic memo was already sent out.

Even if Alpha Kingdom backed down now, the resulting severe political impact would nonetheless have already occurred.

Moreover, Caesar IV is not a person who likes advice and if a group of kings and ministers in the Capital couldn’t stop him, Hudson did not believe his letter alone could make a difference.

Looking in the direction of the Capital, Hudson couldn’t help sighing, “Your Majesty Caesar III’s painstakingly cultivated political credit is lost in one fell swoop!”

After a pause, Hudson, who had regained his composure, started writing vigorously again.

This time, however, the letter was not for Caesar IV.

“Tom, have someone deliver this letter to Mr.

Jose, and prepare our people at the Capital.”

If he couldn’t persuade his own king, then it was time to get to work stirring the pot.

After Caesar IV took the throne, he held a large-scale aristocratic ennobling ceremony once to win people’s hearts, making up for ceremonies that had previously been overlooked.

However, among those ennobled, Jose’s figure was nowhere to be found.

This Court Count, who had taken the blame for the Crown Prince, seemed to have been forgotten by everyone.