Winter is coming to an end, and spring is coming.

Spring is the season of life, when everything recovers, and the earth will be covered with green, red flowers and green grass, green mountains and green waters. Even the animals have fully recovered after a long cold winter and have begun to multiply, starting another cycle of life.

But today's spring is different.

It's cold.

It's not just the air that's cold, it's the human heart.

The calendar of the main plane is similar to that of the earth, and the year is also divided into four seasons, with the day of the year being the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, as the new year. This calendar is simple and crude, and very convincing.

The winter solstice is the middle point of winter, and the month and a half from the winter solstice is the beginning of spring. And in this last month and a half, the first half of the month is almost the coldest time.

Generally speaking, if there is to be a war, people mostly choose winter. Mainly because in winter the peasants have nothing to do and are idle.

For the orcs, fighting in winter can consume a lot of population, save food, and optimize the population, which is a policy worthy of affirmation and praise.

Sui Xiong floated on the terrace on the roof of the Void City Hall, staring at the sky to the east.

The war clouds had almost condensed into substance, an iron gray color, which made people feel very uncomfortable looking at it.

"I don't know how many people will die in this battle!" he sighed deeply and shook his head.

"It's their choice. Leon stood beside him and said calmly, "We will try to protect the refugees and stop the massacre, but we cannot stop them from going to war." If people want to die themselves, others have no choice. ”

Sui Xiong nodded, but he still couldn't help but sigh.

He loved life and hated war. The act of gambling the lives of thousands of people for land, wealth, power, and status is nothing short of desecration of life in his opinion.

But he can't stop the war because both sides want to fight.

As Leon said, this is a common choice for both humans and orcs.

Even if only one side did not want to fight this battle, Sui Xiong would stand on the side that was forced to fight, and use his fists to persuade the attacker to abandon the war. However, both sides wanted to fight, and both wanted to kill a river of bloody corpses all over the field, and he had no choice.

These days, he has been calling for peace, for people to withdraw from war. Whether it is humans, orcs, or other races involved in this war, as long as they are willing to withdraw from the war, Sui Xiong is willing to protect them, let them get out of the war, and live in a republic like a paradise.

But what he did didn't work much.

It is true that there are many mortals who believe in him who decided not to participate in this war, and they were taken from all over the world to the Northwest Republic and settled. But there are even more people who are willing to go to war - for mortals, faith is important, but their own lives, their own families, their own loves and hatreds...... These are just as important.

For example, the Eagle Kingdom, a country that fights with orcs all year round, and almost every family has elders who died on the battlefields of the north. In order to defeat the orcs once and for all, almost none of them are willing to withdraw from this war. However, after praying and confessing to Sui Xiong, many priests of Sui Xiong took off their robes tattooed with the jellyfish emblem, put on armor, took up arms, and walked to the battlefield.

On the side of the Mystic Tower Federation, even in the Four-City Alliance with Gray Tower City as the core, many scholars and mages walked out of the study, picked up the magic wands that are rarely used, took off the scholar's robes, changed into mage robes, and went to the military camp to gather.

These scholars know a lot of knowledge, so they are filled with a sense of responsibility to the whole of humanity, even if they have to disobey the orders of the gods, they will participate in this war and fight for the future of mankind.

Not to mention places like Garth City, large numbers of young men flocked to the north to the Radiant Kingdom and threw themselves into the battlefield of blood and fire. Leon once wanted to use strong means to stop all this, but was vetoed by Sui Xiong.

"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let him go. Sui Xiong said in a very open tone at the time, "As long as they don't regret it." ”

"These fellows are not religious at all!" said Leon unhappily.

"Man lives first for himself, and only then for others. Sui Xiong smiled and said, "No matter what choice they make this time, as long as they don't turn their swords towards the parishioners, I still welcome them back in the future." ”

"Your Majesty...... You're too generous! You can't be so generous!"

"Why not?" Sui Xiong smiled, "Isn't the reason why I want to be as strong as possible so that I can say, 'Because I want to, there's nothing wrong with that'?"

Eventually, he chose to move the people of Gars who were reluctant to participate in the war, and for the time being, moved to the Northwest Republic.

Of course, you can't move the city, but as long as you take all the important things with you, it doesn't matter what is left.

Where the Gals are, is the city of Gals. Without the Garces, it would be nothing more than an empty city.

All of this naturally relied on Sui Xiong's incredible vastness of divine power, and when the immigrants saw a city exactly like the Garth they had lived in in the icy ash forest, they were all stunned.

In fact, for Sui Xiong, it is very simple, it is nothing more than scanning the appearance of the entire city, and then finding a place to shape the earth into a corresponding shape.

Although the amount of work is huge, it is only ten days of work before and after.

The other territories belonging to the Northwest Republic did not choose to relocate, after all, they were all far away from the battlefield. The Gerten Territory is adjacent to the Greystone Mountains in the eastern part of the Central Gold Coin Federation, the Dahl Territory is located in the southern part of the Gold Federation and is slightly east of the Swamp, the Keane Territory is located in the prosperous area of the south-central Thunder Duchy, and the Grey Tower Four-City Alliance is located in the north-central part of the Mystic Tower Federation near the Ancient Forest.

Compared to Garth City, which is not far from the Radiant Kingdom and is an important commercial port on the entire continent, they are all safe areas away from the battlefield, and of course there is no need to relocate.

Even so, there were a large number of people who believed in Sui Xiong and were unwilling to participate in the war in various places to march towards the Northwest Republic. The most of them, of course, come from the Blue Moon Kingdom.

This population has put tremendous pressure on housing in the Northwest Republic and has stretched the already cultivated land.

The people of this world are not accustomed to living in "pigeon cage" apartments, and neither Void City nor the other cities of the Northwest Republic can accommodate so many inhabitants.

They need to open up more land and settle more residents. Not only should they have a place to live, but also a place to work, rest, and play.

Therefore, something that has been planned for a long time and has mobilized a lot of manpower to make a lot of preparations is finally about to be implemented.

Purify the entire Ash Forest!