Liu Jie logged out of the game with a smile, and Ono and the others logged out as well. Heaven's Eye Alliance had clearly split into two factions: the defeated faction led by Liu Jie, and the defiant faction led by Edward and Schneider.
On the morning of the fifth day.
At the three port cities of Hot Spring Island, Sky Fox City, and Golden Sands City, more than fifty million players gathered.
Chen Mo led 500 Ocean Overlords, 30 Ocean Fortresses, and 1,500 Mouse Hunters on patrol at sea.
More than 100,000 troop transports filled the three ports as players boarded them batch by batch, organized by guild.
Lu Yang stood atop the flagship's command tower, looking at the players mobilized from nearly the entire country behind him, excitement written across his face.
Who could have imagined that one day, he would command more than fifty million people in an overseas campaign? This was practically a Chinese storm.
Reporters from television stations and online media outlets flocked to the ports to capture the scene. In particular, photos of Lu Yang standing proudly on the command platform spread wildly across major domestic websites.
The fifty million people began gathering at eight in the morning. The first batch of seven million Iron Blood Brotherhood players assembled in half an hour, while players from more than a hundred guilds with 100,000 members each boarded their ships within the same half hour.
Seeing that the first group had assembled, Lu Yang said, "Set sail."
Seventeen million people advanced toward the maritime border under the escort of tens of thousands of troop transports and over a thousand warships.
The moment they set out, India, the Philippines, and Indonesia were dumbfounded. None of them had expected Lu Yang's naval power to be so formidable. He