Xiao Ran was starting to grow impatient. He was waiting for the mission to be issued so he could prepare to receive Zeon after it crushed the Federation. Those participants who still had not hurried to join a faction kept dragging things out—how was he supposed to make his moves, adjust, and arrange everything? So Xiao Ran decided to stir things up. If they would not join, he would force them to join. If they would not show themselves, he would force them to appear.
If they still did not show themselves after that, then those participants could forget about ever finding a suitable faction to join. He was not about to flip the table outright, but he was ready to cause some trouble beneath it. When the time came, Zeon would not want them, Anaheim would not want them, and the Federation would not want them either. Xiao Ran refused to believe the mission's release could still be delayed for another year or two.
And after a year or two, would he, Xiao Ran, still be unable to dig those participants out and kill every last one of them?
Bringing the Burning Legion here was an obvious declaration to all participants in this mission: Anaheim had already been occupied by participants. Once Anaheim and Zeon reached a commercial agreement and Banagher and Minerva's Marriage Alliance was announced, it would further show that the participants on Zeon's and Anaheim's sides had formed an alliance. On the surface, they would become the most powerful participant force in this world.
Some participants would surely hurry to join the stronger side, choosing the faction with more participants and greater strength to complete their missions. Of course, it was not impossible that some people confident in their own abilities would choose to join the