Today's first update: Chapter 2061! 1/3!
After the advance scouts conducted their detailed intelligence gathering, Yang Yao took over from Xu Kun to arrange the subsequent deployment.
During the first half of the First Tier War, the main focus for every race was excavating source mines. Even the Three Saints, Seven Kings were no exception.
A race's ore points were their guaranteed baseline, like a worker's monthly base salary. They were the fundamental guarantee for survival.
If a race could not fully excavate the source mines generated by the Myriad Races Battlefield based on every aspect of that race, how could it preserve its Sequence Ranking after the First Tier War ended?
They could not possibly fall far behind other races of the same sequence in basic points alone, could they?
Only after excavating enough source mines and converting them through Strategic Points would it be convenient to expand outward.
Expansion could only be achieved through a race's army—through conquest and challenges—in other words, invasion.
The only things that could be relied upon were the race's corresponding strengths, such as formations, coordinated combat tactics, racial traits...
But expansion required manpower, which inevitably meant leaving gaps in the defense of one's own Race Battlefield.
You could not have your cake and eat it too. For example, if the Monkey Race went to conquer the Rock Rhino Clan, then once the Shadow Wolf Clan confirmed that the Monkey Race's defenses were lacking, they could likewise send troops to conquer them.
That would create layers upon layers of plundering: the higher-ranked races attacking the lower-ranked ones, the lower-ranked races attacking those beneath them. In the end, perhaps no one would gain anything.
To prevent situations where one's own race went on campaign while other races raided their homeland, exchanging points at Strategic