Today's fourth update: Chapter 2736! 4/4!
The connection between the last-place elimination match and the Second Tier War was that the various races could now deploy racial powerhouses above the Fourth Realm and below the Demi-Saint Realm.
The difference was that the reinforcement period for the last-place elimination match lasted only three short days. Once those three days passed, unlike the races still conducting normal Second Tier Wars, they would not have battlefield opening days every three days of the month.
In other words, the two races participating in the last-place elimination match were like two crickets thrown into a jar. Only when one side fell could victory or defeat be decided.
Those inside could not get out, and those outside could not get in.
The conditions for determining victory in this battle were also extremely harsh. Only after one side had suffered more than half its losses could it surrender. If one wished to win outright, there was only one option: kill every last member of the opposing side.
After the light screen vanished, every participating racial member could clearly see the number of surviving members on the other side.
For the Rat clan at this moment, their goal was to reduce that mere figure of over three hundred million to zero.
They did not merely need to win—they needed to annihilate the enemy completely. This was the Rat clan's confidence, based on their own number of combatants and their ignorance of the Huang clan's true strength.
Yet the moment they came into contact, they learned just how vast the gap between ideals and reality was.
As the side with weaker forces, Xu Kun had already established the overall tone of this war when he laid out the strategy before the battle.
The enemy army was overwhelmingly powerful.