Z Nation's choice to target the third Large Fortress and then seize the surrounding Medium and Small Fortresses would definitely draw the vigilance and hostility of more countries. Some might even send people to monitor and target them. If that happened, Ye Luo and Breaking Waves Riding Wind could take action—raiding those countries' grinding areas and fortresses, primarily killing their elite players.
Killing all of a country's elite players, or even just a portion of them, would greatly affect that country's strength and leave it unable to attack Z Nation. That would greatly reduce the pressure on Z Nation when it moved to capture Large Fortresses.
Eliminating threats in advance would make everything that followed go much more smoothly, while also deterring many countries from acting rashly.
Of course, the most important thing was that Ye Luo and Breaking Waves Riding Wind had the strength to threaten a country's elite players, especially after Zuo Shang Qin Xin, Yan Hua Yi Leng, and the others teleported over to help. With Spell Immunity and Invincible State active, the two of them were practically humanoid tanks and could unleash a wholesale slaughter.
Thinking of this, Breaking Waves Riding Wind became excited. Hunting some "fodder" in YD's activity zone was hardly interesting to her. Hunting elite players from other countries was more challenging and better suited her temperament.
"Xiao Shu has already sent all of Misty Pavilion's assassins out. They may not be spread throughout the entire Fallen Demon Domain, but they've been deployed in several key countries. If their people show up near that Large Fortress, we'll launch a raid." Ye Luo spoke as he attacked several YD players. "When the time comes, we'll teleport over directly and kill as many people as possible with lightning-fast force."
"Heh, I don't think we need