In the end, only four kingdoms remained...
No one had expected this.
Yet upon closer thought, it seemed only natural. Aside from Solomon, that bug, the other three kingdoms had all survived through crooked means!
Terra needed no further explanation. The reason Morgan, the eldest prince, had been able to temporarily advance to the Fifth Tier was because of the [Boundless] Authority he had stolen from Caesar. That counted as an unorthodox method. The Auks Kingdom was even more outrageous than Terra. Relying on Magic Array Guards, they had possessed as many as five Fifth Tier powerhouses at their peak! Though they had suffered losses, they still retained at least three Fifth Tier combatants. Their strength was considerable.
The Soman Kingdom was no pushover either. They had signed a contract with a race of evil fiends from beyond the realm, borrowing their power to create an exceptionally peculiar supernatural force—one that could sacrifice other living beings as offerings to strengthen themselves!!
With that bloody and evil power, they too could temporarily obtain the strength of the Fifth Tier, though at an enormous cost. By now, aside from one Fifth Tier and one Fourth Tier, the Soman Kingdom had only twenty-six Third Tiers left. Moreover, every Third Tier who had died in battle had been sacrificed by their own people without exception.
Compared to the Soman Kingdom, the Auks Kingdom, which also treated Magic Array Guards as expendable resources, was undoubtedly far more humane.
Of course, their reckless approach was partly because no one would truly die in this war game. Otherwise, a Third Tier would still be a notable figure outside. They could not possibly be sacrificed so wantonly.
The Soman Kingdom could not bear such losses, and even if it could, the other powers would teach it a lesson