The Japanese Server Alliance players had seized all the outer walls of the Imperial City on the African server and set up a large number of Mobile Magic Crystal Cannons atop them. Quite a few Formation Masters had also used Change Heaven and Earth to create elevated platforms, allowing them to install even more Mobile Magic Crystal Cannons. This gave the Japanese Server Alliance an enormous advantage, and they rather easily "drove back" the China Server Alliance players. Of course, calling it driving them back was not quite accurate; the China Server Alliance had voluntarily retreated, knowing full well that the outer walls could not be held. Their orderly withdrawal from the walls made that obvious.
Because the Japanese Server Alliance held the advantage of the city walls and had deployed so many Mobile Magic Crystal Cannons, the China Server Alliance players found it difficult to get within fifty meters of the outer walls. For safety, most of them remained over a hundred meters away, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
The reason for this was that although the Japanese Server Alliance had seized the outer walls, the effects of their ultimate skills and Group Blessing Scrolls would soon end. They also had no spare Group Blessing Scrolls or items like Summon Demon God Scrolls. Thus, they no longer had the strength to capture the inner walls. Just as Yan Hua Yi Leng and the others had analyzed, the Japanese Server Alliance's siege plan had come to nothing.
After that, hardly anyone on either side made any rash moves. They each busied themselves with such matters as killing enemies within their control, reviving allies in corpse state, and collecting the spoils of war.
At the same time, both sides counted the losses and expenditures from the battle. The