Today's second update: Chapter 2714! 2/4!
The races currently ranked within the top thousand now had to consider swiftly recruiting smaller races to join them.
Even a race like the Dragon Race had no choice but to get moving. They couldn't possibly end up with only the Eastern and Western Dragon Courts left, could they?
Fortunately, many races affiliated with the Dragon Race had benefited from the Dragon Race's past policy of spreading its seed. Many mixed-blood Dragon Descendants within those races favored the Dragon Race. As long as the Dragon Race showed willingness to recruit them, these races would rather become part of the Dragon Race, even if it meant living in the outermost territories of the Western Dragon Court.
At the very least, they would become members of a sacred race, wouldn't they?
For the vast majority of races that could absorb smaller races and strengthen themselves during this retraction, every additional race they carved up meant another race grew weaker. In this kind of zero-sum struggle, they had to give it everything they had.
As for races ranked beyond one thousand in the Sequence Ranking, they now faced a difficult choice.
Not every race had connections they could rely on. What awaited those races was silently waiting for the First Tier War to end, for the Race Battlefield to be abandoned, and for their people to be expelled to the Wildlands Battlefield.
And even among the races that did have somewhere to turn, not all of them would choose to submit.
Among the myriad races, there was no shortage of proud races and racial leaders who would rather die standing than live on their knees.
So what if they were expelled to the Wildlands Battlefield? I don't give a damn!
That meant that, in the future,