With extremely complicated emotions, Alderac stood by the airport runway built in Hislia, the capital of the new puppet empire, waiting anxiously for Chris, the Emperor of the Ilanthil Empire.
His status, or rather his previous status, including his status in the magical world, had made him wait for someone with such anxiety for a long, long time.
Even in the past, when he faced Travish, he had never been so uneasy. After all, he was also a highly respected great mage in the puppet empire at that time.
As a result, now, he has been promoted to a Dharma Saint due to the tide of magic energy, but he is still standing here like this, like a subordinate waiting for his superior to get out of the plane.
Times have changed, and this is something he deeply feels. The world has changed, and it has changed into something he cannot understand.
Countless commodities appeared on the market, and a large amount of cheap food began to flood the market. People no longer had to worry about war and food and clothing, and even the threat of demons had truly gone away.
There are scenes of development everywhere now. The puppet empire has never been as open as it is today, and it has never been as weak as it is today.
Yes, weak! The new puppet empire's land area is only one-fifth of the original size, and the remaining land is divided between the Norma Empire, Elland Hill and Grecken.
Eilandhir occupied more than half of the territory of the puppet empire and retained a large number of troops in the remaining one-fifth of the territory.
These garrisons are responsible for the security of the new puppet empire, and even include most of the national defense. The new puppet empire now has 300,000 troops, but most of these troops are ordinary soldiers without magical abilities!
There seems to be a lot of them, but these soldiers are all "former Elland Hill Grenadiers". They are equipped with the 42 steel helmets that Elland Hill has eliminated, use the tactical vests that Elland Hill has phased out, and carry Liang Ricken on their backs.
The Mauser 98k bolt-action rifle that no one wants to use.
The army equipped with these weapons and equipment has no combat effectiveness at all when facing the army of Elanthir. Even when they face Greikon's new legion, they have no combat effectiveness at all.
Therefore, the new puppet empire can be said to be completely defenseless, and even the national economy has been completely hijacked by Alan Hill!
That's right, this country's own economy has collapsed now. In order to stabilize the local economy and public security, the new puppet empire completely uses the gold coins of Ailan Hill as equivalent exchanges, and does not even have its own currency.
The local bank is the Royal Bank of Ireland, as well as competing banks such as Higgs Bank and Arant Regional Bank. The financial coordinator here is the Imperial Bank of Ireland, which is the financial administrative agency of Ireland.
The new puppet empire has nothing to do with it at all.
The currency issuance rights and the mobilization of materials here are all in the hands of the civil servants of Ireland Hill, or in the hands of many of Ireland's big plutocrats.
Prices were set by Ailan Hill, supplies were allocated by Ailan Hill, and roads were built with Ailan Hill's aid... It is even said that even Alderac's advisory group consisted mostly of mortals from Ailan Hill...
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The only thing that pleased Aldryk was that he had retained the name of the Puppet Empire and the empire's nominal right to exist, or rather, the last shred of illusory dignity of the Magic Empire.
At least... this empire is getting better bit by bit now, which is the hope that supports all the magicians in the new puppet empire.
They indeed witnessed a miracle, a miracle created by Ailan Hill! On the second day after the surrender of the puppet empire, the distant, once mysterious and now overly powerful Ailan Hill stabilized the new puppet empire that had already ascended to heaven.
Prices.
When the carts of nearly expired Bude mustard were dumped like garbage on the central square of Hislia, the new puppet empire finally realized how huge the gap between the two sides was.
"It's free! As long as you can hold it, you can take it and eat it!" When the Airan Hill officer standing in the square pointed disdainfully at the majestic mustard packaging box like a hill, he looked at the new puppet empire.
When the people shouted, prices here dropped to unprecedented levels.
Subsequently, hundreds of boxes of cheap instant noodles and bread as hard as bricks entered the market of the new puppet empire. These things came from Greken and the Norma Empire...
Today, Eiland Hill no longer bothers to sell these cheap goods. It has sold out the production equipment for various small commodities and food, retaining only its own needs and no longer competing with other empires for export shares.
However, when the Norma Empire discovered that their empire had to export 200 people's cars to buy an F-16 fighter jet, their fragile national industrial system was exposed to all those in power in the empire.
"We should be lucky that we have earned more money than we have in the past ten years. We can buy a lot of things now, but Elland Hill can buy the gods of this world..." A Greken magician said with emotion.
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"Check all the preparations again, don't make any mistakes..." Looking at the expensive watch produced by Eiland Hill on his wrist, Oldlake looked at his colleagues beside him uneasily.
The old man, who was already a Grand Mage, nodded slightly, then retreated to the back row, letting several apprentices quickly check other preparations at the airport.
Standing not far away was the Ambassador of Elanthil to the New Puppet Empire, the attaché of the embassy, the agents of the Royal Special Mission Department who had arrived in advance, and several Elantil magicians in eagle robes who were also checking.
In the second process, they are responsible for the safety of His Majesty the Emperor of their own empire.
"Check around the airport again. Gun control is out of control. The number of hidden guns among civilians has increased ten or even a hundred times. In this case, long-distance assassinations are also possible. Don't be careless!"
The officers clasped their hands behind their backs, waiting for the special plane symbolizing the Emperor of the Airansil Empire to appear in the sky.
Everyone was very nervous. Wilkes, the 3rd Army Group, who also served as the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Front, the real frontier official, and the first-level imperial general Wilkes, stood at the front, even a little further forward than Aldryk.
He is also waiting, waiting for His Majesty the Emperor, whom he has not seen for a year. Everyone can see that this general who commands millions of elite Ailan Hill and has greater power than other emperors of the empire is actually a little small at this moment.