Yeah, but for that to happen, there has to be a tradition of hunting among the nobility, and for the nobles you want to get rid of to actually go on hunts. Something which may not happen because of the aforementioned deaths of the majority of competent men.
I mean, not only are the leaders incompetent, so are the regular people. The men who are left, who would be doing the fragging, are also dumb and lacking. If they weren’t, they would have been brainwashed by the Demon King or killed by her army of mind controlled men.
And I’ve been giving it some thought, but wouldn’t the competent women, those with the talent AND ambition to fill in the holes left by the Demon King’s mind control, already have been picked up by the Heroes organization?
The war raged for several years, so competent women would likely have been needed for frontline combat rather than rear echelon management.
This is a really interesting justification for the “corrupt idiot nobles” trope; the Demon King’s mind control wasn’t just a way for her to try to take over the world, it also was a way to, if she failed and was killed, leave her enemies burdened with a population of stupid and incompetent men at all strata of society.
Even if the author accidentally tripped over it, I find it interesting to consider.