Today's third update: Chapter 3091! 3/4!
"Eight Wise Kings was cautious and suspicious by nature. That was the key quality that had allowed him to emerge victorious from the brutal succession struggle back then." Inside the tent, Xu Kun calmly analyzed the matter for his generals, as though commenting on a chess game whose ending he had already seen.
"However, excess was as bad as deficiency. At certain times, a strength could become the deadliest weakness. He had endured humiliation and held back for too long, suffered setback after setback, and seen his prestige damaged. If I were him, the moment I caught even the faintest scent of an opportunity to completely turn things around, I would never be satisfied with merely taking a tentative swing to see if there was anything to gain."
A cold smile touched his lips as he continued, "It's like a gambler who has lost himself red-eyed and already staked his entire fortune and life on the table. If he suddenly gets a hand that seems capable of turning the tables in a desperate situation, would you advise him to play steadily and test the waters with small bets? That would be nothing but a fool's dream! He would only... stake everything without hesitation, hoping to win it all back in a single hand!"
"A million elite troops..." Xu Kun softly repeated the number, a profound gleam of complete control flashing through his eyes.
"That was enough to serve as excellent kindling... to ignite this blaze."
The false surrender had always been merely an exquisite opening Xu Kun used to break the current deadlock.
In a racial war game of such immense scale, the contest was often not about which side was braver or more adept in battle, but—who made fewer mistakes, and who