As the world reeled from the commencement of the third Great East Panamic War, the polities of East Panama grew grave as they were faced with choices that they would undoubtedly have to choose from.
Wars of such scale were rarely waged among just the core participants. More often than not, smaller nations were dragged into the war between the primary powerhouses that sought to destroy each other.
After all, Sage-level powerhouse nations possessed immense power, especially within their primary domain of influence. It was quite easy for powerhouses to use their influence to either implicitly blackmail, threaten, or bribe nations in their vicinity to pressure them into lending them their power and credit.
While nations with military power limited to the Lower Realms were too weak to even bother with, the same could not be said about the Master-level and Sage-level nations. It was entirely worth it to gain the power of these nations and deploy it in war.
