A week after the Environmental War began, news of the front-line situation finally reached the public.
There was no suspense. After several skirmishes, the Union's forces and the Secret Council immediately fell into a quagmire.
To be honest, the Hidden side had suffered considerable losses. The continental environment of the Abyssal Realm meant they could only fight across land, sea, and air; it was unsuitable for their councilors to assume their cosmic forms.
The Union, meanwhile, had no shortage of ground troops.
The first to make its move was "Soul Hometown." Its long marching columns gave the Secret Council's members a headache for the first time.
Undead troops had no trouble with toxic blood corruption. Countless death lords led walking corpses into battle against the Tatar-Slavic mixed-blood humans across the wilderness, towns, and wastelands. No matter that their predecessors had once dominated the grasslands, before the desperate advance of the dead, they could only be beaten into a rout.
However, while the undead were numerous, they had little to offer in terms of high-end combat power.
That was where the Red Blood Alliance had to step up. Possessing a racist narrative forged through meticulous selection and brutal Darwinian breeding, it was undoubtedly the strongest entity in the Union when it came to cultivating peak individual combat power.
The Alliance dispatched three titled demigods: the Incompetent Duke, Zorasyn. Though his title sounded odd, he was not truly incompetent. He was one of the rare Plunder Class demigods, yet he did not worship Red King, instead following an independent and ancient faith. After completing the Fusion Path, he merely had to unfold his demigod form to unleash a power called "Boundless Sea of Suffering," imposing random plunder-and-bestow effects on all hostile targets.
It sounded somewhat abstract, but a closer look revealed the