The Round Table Conference!

Soon, an official statement from the Great Xia Settlement was published on various information websites on Azure Star.

[To all those who boycott Lin Ye and the Great Xia Gathering Place:]

Lin Ye's Instance, the Great Wall Watch, will open in one day. This time, the Instance Challengers scale will be adjusted from two Settlements to eight Settlements!

We encourage all Challengers to participate, especially those from the Triumph Settlement, the United States Settlement, the Italian Focus Community, the Nirmaner Settlement, the Gaul Community, and the Dahe Settlement...

This is your World War I Lin Ye. After this, all of Lin Ye's Instances will be closed!

This news caused a huge uproar throughout the entire Azure Star!

All news websites were bombarded with messages and bullet comments, causing them to crash!

The amount of information conveyed in that short official statement was enormous.

The first thing that comes to mind is the scale of the Challengers...

Eight Settlements!

This is no longer a question of breaking the Azure Star Instance record; it can only be described as utterly insane.

If someone unfamiliar with Lin Ye's previous performance in the Instance were to see this news for the first time, they would only think that Lin Ye was committing suicide.

Furthermore, the Great Xia Settlement was really too assertive this time, directly naming those seven Settlements.

It's obvious they're issuing a challenge!

The Great Xia Settlement has always been relatively peaceful and docile. Even when the Eight Settlements besieged Great Xia and resisted Lin Ye in various ways, they never made such a domineering statement.

Every forum was in an uproar.

[Holy crap, are they really that aggressive? Eight Settlements are involved, that's 16 million people! My God!]

[Incredible! God Ye is truly incredible! It seems that 500 people are no longer enough for God Ye to kill.]

[This is really putting the major settlements in a difficult position. If they don't accept the challenge now, they'll inevitably lose all prestige on Azure Star.]

[They were so arrogant before, but now that Lin Ye has given them a chance to attack together, they've chickened out... What are they if not clowns?]

[Eight Settlements! Kneel down! Sorry... there are actually seven major Settlements. I forgot about the Universe Settlement, which no longer exists.]

This news is bad news for everyone who covets Lin Ye's skills. Lin Ye is a top-tier LV4 expert, and he shouldn't be forcibly pulled into Instance in the first place. Now that he's closing his own Instance, he's practically invincible!

[Once this opportunity is missed, it may never come again.]

[Do you all really think so? I think Lin Ye took a huge risk this time. He didn't need to do this at all. It's obvious that the major settlements have already given in, so why insist on giving them another chance?]

[What was said above is also true. Lin Ye might have really gotten arrogant. Being in the top 5 of the Hero Ranking does give him the right to be so cocky!]

[Just a quick note, God Ye, can you see this? I've applied to become a member of your Settlement, please accept me!]

[...]

There were all sorts of opinions at the time, but overall, most of them were inciting conflict and trying to put others down.

Unfortunately, the performance of the Gauls and India Settlements in the last Instance was simply not outstanding, forcing the people of Azure Star to choose to side with the Great Xia Settlement.

Such a inflammatory statement can easily sway public opinion.

Suddenly, the rhetoric that had been opposing Lin Ye all turned into mockery of the seven Settlements.

Half a day later.

It was already evening.

York City, the main city of United States Settlement.

The central Circle Center Building in the very heart of the city was brightly lit.

The United States Settlement claims to be the most powerful Settlement on Azure Star.

In terms of top-tier Instance combat power, the United States Settlement is inferior to the Nirmaner Settlement. Keep in mind that the Nirmaner has four Level 4 dungeons, while the United States Settlement only has two: George, ranked 4th on the Hero Ranking, and Lincoln, ranked 18th.

In terms of individual combat ability, the United States Settlement is not as good as Gaul. After all, Gaul still has the Fulangche and Bonaparte Families, and its top position on the Azure Star is still intact.

But the America gathering place has a large population of 1 billion.

Moreover, they are very good at stirring up public opinion to create momentum for themselves, and gradually they have built themselves into the strongest Settlement on Azure Star.

The Circle Center Building is the highest administrative center of the United States Settlement. From the outside street, it looks like a huge white ring floating above the bustling city.

At this very moment, the most important central Conference Room in this magnificent Circle Center Building is filled with the most influential figures of the Azure Star.

Moonlight streamed through the glass into the Conference Room, giving one the feeling of being above the entire planet!

The attendees included:

George, Commander of the United States Settlement Fulangche, Commander of the Gaul Settlement; Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Commander of the Dahe Settlement; Arthur, Commander of the Triumph Settlement; Moso, Commander of the Italy Settlement; and Seele, Commander of the Xi'er Nirmaner Settlement.

And there's Kaza, the Commander of the Libya Settlement!

Park Seong-man, the interim Commander of the Burundi Settlement!

At this moment, the Commander of these eight Settlements sat around Round Table with a radius of 5 meters inside the meeting room to discuss countermeasures.

This can be described as the highest-level Round Table Conference on Azure Star!

In fact, people like Kaza and Park Seong-man shouldn't have been present at this event.

Kaza's strength is so-so; it rose to power through the offerings of its people and follows the same path as India Settlement: buying weapons.

The key issue is that he's not very strong, yet he's so arrogant.

All that shouting and clamoring is utterly clownish.

As for Park Seong-man, after the destruction of the South Korea Settlement, he moved with several of his trusted Goryeo people to the poorest Burundi Settlement.

Then, relying on his own combat strength, he suppressed various local forces and eventually became the temporary leader of the settlement, leading a group of dark-skinned people to run Instance.

One is a war maniac, the other a spendthrift; neither deserves to be called top-tier.

But there's no way around it; they now share a common enemy: Lin Ye!

The enemy of my enemy is someone I can win over.

Kaza has volunteered to challenge the Great Wall Watch more than once, and even made a statement saying he would give Lin Ye a backdoor...

As for what this guy was after, nobody knows.

Park Seong-man also harbors a deep hatred for Lin Ye, and in the next the Great Wall Watch, he will most likely not let go of this last chance to eliminate Lin Ye.

In fact, each of these eight Settlements had its own agenda.

Different desires, different plans, but the same goal:

Lin Ye!

The Great Xia Settlement has already started to slap them in the face, and they have no choice but to gather together to discuss how to counter Lin Ye's the Great Wall Watch.

"Alright, everyone," George, wearing a top white hat, said directly.

"Enough with the small talk. This time, Lin Ye and the Great Xia Settlement have openly challenged us, which is a blatant slap in the face!"

"If we don't stop Lin Ye's momentum, Azure Star will belong to the Lin family from now on."