Today's fourth update: Chapter 3028! 4/4!
Aside from typical fence-sitters like the Raccoon Race, the remaining races participating in the war that had powerful backing could roughly be divided into two groups:
One group harbored ulterior motives.
From the very beginning, they had joined the "Wild Hunt Operation" not to aid the Black Tortoise Race and the Crocodile Race, but to be ready to stab them in the back at any moment.
The most notable trait of these races was that their backers had long-standing grudges against either the Black Tortoise Race or the Crocodile Race.
The Snow Elf Race, which favored the human race and was about to clash with the Huang Race, was one such example!
A betrayal from an "ally" was often the deadliest and most unexpected.
At worst, the Raccoon Race would simply slip away when the situation turned bad.
But what if a race not only feared battle and refused to fight, but defected at the last moment and stabbed you in the back?
There were certainly many races harboring such sinister intentions. They were merely waiting to see who fired the first shot.
Once a successful example appeared, imitators would surely follow one after another.
When Xu Kun had laid out this scheme, pushed Crown Prince Erh to carry it out, and successfully dragged the Black Tortoise Race and the Crocodile Race into launching this "Wild Hunt Operation," one of his deeper intentions had been to seize this opportunity to thoroughly drag both races into a bottomless quagmire of war with enormous losses!
Yes, it was the exact opposite of the blueprint Crown Prince Erh had painted for the Black Tortoise Race's upper echelons, including the Eight Wise Kings—"wearing down the Huang Race through a war of attrition." Xu Kun's true intention was