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In the Northern Region, the cold had begun to quietly erode everything it encountered, and amidst the ice and snow, countless Dwarf Troops were trudging through with difficulty.
If one were to ask who the biggest beneficiary of the war was, which resembled more of a civil conflict among trade alliances on a semi-global scale, the answer would naturally be the Ice Cold Empire.
With many Dwarf Kingdoms nearby that were not only lacking in strength but had also not completed industrialization, and with the racial rifts preventing much support or aid from other kingdoms, these weaker Dwarf Kingdoms were completely powerless to resist being subsumed by the Ice Cold Empire.
A few kingdoms with some industrial foundations managed to struggle a bit, but those that were purely agricultural or ore-exporting nations were defeated without even the chance to struggle.
