North of the Defensive Line

After the small city of Bern fell.

In most regions south of the Second Defensive Line, resistance ceased. From the outset, few among the Northern Army forces south of the Second Defensive Line agreed with Siegfried's ideology.

Moreover, Army Groups A and B had broken through the Second Defensive Line. Faced with a force of nearly 600,000 men, no army would recklessly choose to fight to the death.

Even the once-mighty Northern Grand Duke had fallen. Even if anyone rose up now, they could not possibly survive.

Instead, the fiercest resistance came from the factory owners and nobles.

The officers of armies that had not directly participated in the war had little to lose, but the nobles were another matter.

"There is no way those Imperial bastards will leave our factories alone!"

"No, even if they did leave them alone, that would still be a problem. We can't compete with the Imperial bastards' conglomerates."

The Empire's vaunted companies were, without exception, major corporations that bought and sold goods throughout the world. From weapons to daily necessities, the Empire's factories already possessed technology several times more advanced than that of the factories in the North.

In this situation, the Northern factories seemed destined to collapse on their own, even without Kyle Leopold bringing them down...