The Tide Turns

Restlessness, unease, oppression.

The battle continued. Death played out every moment as both sides kept raising the stakes on the battlefield. The war seemed to be escalating, and the Aus showed no sign of backing down.

"We haven't seen the ministers for an entire day."

"Do you think they've already run away?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! If they had really run, the others should have scattered too."

The bloody, brutal meat grinder of a battle continued. The Aus attacks seemed to have grown thirty percent fiercer, but their top-tier combatants were appearing less and less often.

Yet Lu PingAn and his group remained silent about these realities.

Because in the battles outside, the ones constantly suffering losses were actually the Aus.

Once it was confirmed that their headquarters was gone, the Aus faced counterattacks from all sides—not just from the East Country People.

The Tusya Empire, the Stars and Stripes Federation, the Red Star Republic, the Sakura Kingdom, and so on—these were all first- or second-tier powers on Earth. If they were not strong enough, they would not even have been able to stabilize their own countries, much less explore another world on a massive scale.

Quite a few of them had always been political allies of the Aus. But judging from how ruthlessly and viciously those "allies" were striking now, Horde Company had clearly never intended to distinguish friend from foe.

"It's precisely because they're all Explorers under private companies that the competition is even fiercer."

Wiping them out completely was unlikely. There would always be some high-ranking solitary powerhouses who could escape the Aus pursuit through sheer strength.

Surviving until now proved that they had at least some strength. Even Lu PingAn himself was not confident he could survive alone.

Now that it had become clear the Aus had