Soon after Isaac returned from the Small World, only a month had passed since he had preliminarily organized the materials for the Authority Crystal Fusion Ritual when a belated war finally erupted----
The Xuelan Kingdom, Rex Kingdom, Xiuste Kingdom Alliance, and Autex Empire simultaneously declared war on the Terra Kingdom!
The first three had all recently split off from the Terra Empire. The first two directly bordered the present-day Terra Kingdom and had once been duchies of the Terra Empire, while the latter was a kingdom alliance formed by a scattering of small countries that had broken away from former counties.
It was worth mentioning that the Solomon Kingdom was also part of this kingdom alliance.
However, precisely because its composition was so complicated, compared to the all-out offensives of the first two, the kingdom alliance seemed more like it was merely going through the motions so it would not look too out of place.
That was only natural. After all, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. Whether in the number or quality of extraordinary powerhouses and extraordinary armies, the kingdom alliance combined was far inferior to the Terra Kingdom. Most of their territories did not even border each other, so they had little desire to fight in the first place.
They were nowhere near as crazed as the first two.
But the one that could truly be called crazed was the Autex Empire!
Whether it was the two kingdoms seriously waging war or the kingdom alliance content to coast along, their goals were actually simple: to take advantage of the chaos and tear off a huge chunk of flesh!
But they had no intention of truly crushing the Terra Kingdom, nor did they possess the ability to do so.
The Autex Empire was different. It was