Right after Hiddell and Pons, Mariano and the presidents of the various affiliated guilds all came to Lu Yang one after another and signed contracts with him.
All eleven of the New Continent's strongest affiliated guilds had come to part ways with Lu Yang. Lu Yang charged each of them 20 billion euros in cash and demanded that they give this war everything they had.
On the main battlefield.
By the evening of the fifth day, both sides on Mount Ayala had fought themselves to exhaustion. Just as Chekov was confident she could hold back the Iron Blood Brotherhood, and just as Steiger was preparing to send troops into battle—
A bewildering chorus of war horns rang out across Mount Ayala, leaving the hundreds of millions of players watching the livestreams utterly confused.
The sound was chaotic and grim, unlike anything they had ever heard. By the time everyone realized what was happening, they discovered countless new legions behind the Iron Blood Brotherhood, numbering three to four million players in total.
The same was true at Mount Ayala, in Steiger's territory across from Hundred Flowers Stronghold, and beneath Iron Peacock Stronghold. Another three to four million players had appeared there, along with countless new banners.
Three to four million people were also rapidly assembling before Chieftain Stronghold. The emblems on their banners differed from those of the Iron Blood Brotherhood's previous affiliated guilds, yet they were clearly members of the Iron Blood Brotherhood's affiliated guilds.
Inside the livestream rooms.
Players from every country kept switching between the different livestream feeds. Looking at the ever-growing number of Iron Blood Brotherhood players outside the three strongholds, they were all dumbfounded.
"The last time Lu Yang launched a war like this was when he fought Tom, right? Can he really afford to burn