Military action
Destroying one piece of history was not enough, might as well destroy all the Middle Lands while you're at it. -Jess Merrock, Historian
After turning up empty handed in Syleese, the armies moved West to fight over the Middle Lands, warring for territory that may contain the Artifact. The war was long, bloody, and exhausting of these nations' peoples and supplies. By the end up it new borders were formed, and the nation's called a peace treaty, though it lived to be a short one...