Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

  Coming events often cast their shadows before them. However, it didn’t have a great impact on the civilians of the Republic of Northwest.

  In this world, and in most cases, war was related to the minority. A few knights with hundreds of soldiers could determine the ownership of a baronet. A dozen knights with 300 or 400 soldiers could control several viscount territories. Hundreds of knights with thousands of soldiers could shake a country. They could cause a big war that could attract the attention of all the countries in the mainland of the entire Main Plane.

  Super wars, such as the battle of Sun’s Death Day, were few in the civilization history of the Main Plane. In fact, once the total number of people on both sides of the war reached more than 10,000, it would shake all the countries and leave a strong title in history.

  The Republic of Northwest was located in the border area. Apart from the Rye Valley in the south which led to the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, there was no decent main road. The valleys in the east that traveled through the Mountains of Barrenness? Hey! Going through those valleys also meant going through the desert! Except for the smuggling merchants who didn’t care about their lives, no one dared to go through the desert to do business. How could the scale of such businesses grow that way?

  No matter what the guys who were hostile to the Republic of Northwest thought, they were unlikely to find a way to assemble an army to attack it because of its geographical location.

  Even if their army could fly, they had to fly over the Mountains of Barrenness, the desert, the Orc Empire, and the Commonwealth of Gold Coins first.

  It would be okay if they launched a blitz. If they launched a long-range raid, they couldn’t hide from the War God System that had surrendered to the Void Mask.

  All wars couldn’t escape from the search of the war gods. If the enemies were really stupid enough to fly such a long distance to attack, they would be exhausted. When they got here, they would find that the Church of the Void Mask and his allies with a mighty army, waiting to give them a head-on blow.

  Moreover, it was also possible that they would finally fly into the big open mouth of the giant jellyfish after flying through the clouds.

  Therefore, according to the estimation of Leon, it was most probable that the enemies would send elite troops at the level of professional adventurers. They would be led by top masters, and they would attack Void City directly.

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  In this case, the war would become a war between the few powerful people. It wouldn’t have much to do with ordinary civilians.

  In other words, in this war, ordinary civilians and soldiers wouldn’t be eligible for being cannon fodder.

  If they knew too much about it, they would only panic. What would be the use of that?

  Therefore, after a discussion, everyone unanimously agreed not to disclose the news. They would only hold a few risk-avoiding exercises. The civilians had been too secure gradually over these years. Those exercises would be enough to warn them not to be careless and not to lose their vigilance.

  The real preparations for the war were still carried out by the powerful masters who represented the high-end force. Their imaginary enemies were also strong masters at the same level.

  The strategy department led by Devil Leonard made a detailed deduction. They estimated that the attacking enemies would consist of many Legendary Masters. It wasn’t surprising that there would be tens of them. There might be some Legendary Peaks or even demigods. When they fought, most of them would directly launch mass-destruction attacks. Whether it was useful or not, they would cause a lot of death and injuries first. That was the most horrible thing for the Republic of Northwest.

  According to Sui Xiong’s original intention, nothing was horrible because he would stand guard here personally. If the battlefield was limited to the Main Plane, he had the confidence to defeat all the enemies. Even if the believers of the gods of the Pantheon temple formed a team and all the strong masters of the entire Ring of the World came, he still had the confidence. However, Leon and the others disagreed with him. After all, the gods had their own rules. Although Sui Xiong was strong enough to ignore the rules, sooner or later he would become a god, and he would leave the Main Plane. At that time, he would have to pay for his behavior.

  In order to not be attacked by all the gods at that time, he shouldn’t be so arrogant.

  They made a lot of sense. Although Sui Xiong thought that it was meaningless to think about such far away things, he was still convinced by them. He promised that unless the situation was particularly urgent, he wouldn’t use his noumenon. At most, he would send an avatar like what the other gods did.

  As a result, the long-term threat disappeared, but the present danger was bigger.

  On the side of the Republic of Northwest, the high-end force under the gods was quite strong. With a Legendary Peak as the lead, there were about twenty Legendary Masters. There were warriors, knights, and mages, and they had a perfect combination.

  However, the problem was that they lacked demigods who were at a higher level. Moreover, the combat force was also insufficient at the mid and high level.

  No one should be blamed for that. It had been less than 50 years since the establishment of the Void Mask Land. How many talents could they accumulate in such a short period of time? They had attracted many outstanding masters from the two Fighter Championships. Otherwise, the situation of the Republic of Northwest would be much worse.

  Whenever he thought of this, Leon, the chief commander of this war, felt a little stomach ache. To be honest, he wished that the enemies would jump out now and fight with him with sharp weapons. If so, he was confident that he wouldn’t lose even if he fought with a demigod.

  However, the enemies obviously wouldn’t do what he wanted. Therefore, he had to be worried while stepping up the intensity of military training.

  Leonard, who presided over the training work, didn’t take the upcoming war to heart at all. He thought that it was nothing important. The enemies would come over, the two sides would fight, and a large group of people would be killed. Wasn’t that normal? There was nothing to be worried about. It was normal for people to die in wars.

  From a certain point of view, what he thought was right. People died in wars. After a war, it was common that blood flowed everywhere and for there to be a lot of corpses. Void City had experienced many wars. However, as a result, not a single person had died. That was something uncommon and unbelievable.

  Sui Xiong hoped that no one from his own side would die, and so did Leon. The top class of the Republic of Northwest and the Church of Void Mask thought so, too.

  The Republic of Northwest was located in the northwest of the Main Plane. It was at the border, far away from the civilized world. This new country was the sustenance of their ideals. They hoped that the country could be peaceful and safe. The residents here could live and work in peace and contentment. Even though it was ridiculous and even though it was naive, they still didn’t want ordinary residents to die in this war.

  “In this case, you should surrender to them,” Leonard said.

  Sui Xiong showed a bitter smile and said nothing.

  Leonard’s idea was right, but there was something he couldn’t understand. There was a fundamental contradiction between the republican system and the feudal system. This contradiction was totally irreconcilable. Even if he wanted to give in, the others wouldn’t agree.

  At first glance, this incident of skeleton labor seemed to be his own arbitrariness. He insisted on speeding up the construction, and that led to this trouble. However, behind this dispute, almost all the countries on the whole continent and almost all the rulers were unanimously hostile to the Republic of Northwest.

  The current Republic of Northwest was actually a tiger which was standing in a wolf pack. As long as it showed any weakness, it would be surrounded and killed. Therefore, Sui Xiong knew that he could temporarily resolve this crisis as long as he stopped using skeleton labor. However, he was definitely not willing to do that because he couldn’t lower his head, and the Republic of Northwest couldn’t lower its head either.

  The new order that they symbolized couldn’t lower its head!

  Only through repeated battles could he blind the eyes that were peeking at the Republic. He would break the hands that reached out for the Republic. He would kill all the guys who were hostile to the Republic. Then, he could relax, and the Republic could also relax.

  Peace never came from compromises. Peace came from fights.

  The green jellyfish was crouching on the conference table. He closed his eyes, and it seemed like he was sleeping. However, there was an extremely cruel sneer on his lips.