Today's first update: Chapter 3457! 1/4!
Race points, utterly lost—plundered clean by the Wild Race, points reduced to zero, ranking erased.
Race Battlefield territory, utterly lost—fortresses, strongholds, and resource sites built up over many years had been razed to the ground, turned into scorched, lifeless wastelands.
All soldiers and core forces stationed on the battlefield, utterly lost—not driven into retreat, not taken captive, but subjected to planned, highly efficient slaughter. They had been nearly wiped out, blood flowing like rivers and corpses piled into mountains!
This was the most resolute and merciless way of forcibly erasing a race from the stage of the myriad races' struggle for supremacy, cutting off every possibility of accumulating resources through the battlefield, advancing their Sequence, and sustaining their fortune. This was called "demise," a fate that placed greater emphasis than simple "genocide" on the complete castration and destruction of a race's war potential and future development.
After all, by the closing stages of the Second Tier War, even if a race had no intention of advancing further, merely preserving its current race points required it to commit no less than ten percent of its racial combat strength to the battlefield, just to be safe!
Since mining source ores and building the battlefield during the First Tier War had already ended, the race members remaining on the battlefield were mainly combatants. There was no need for ordinary clansmen of the First or Second Realm to remain as cannon fodder—after the Sequence Retraction, streamlining combat forces had become the trend.
Thus, among the races of the B-tier Sequence, those left behind on the battlefield were mainly War King Realm experts, with some Second Realm members below them. Above them, Fourth Realm Heavenly Kings, Fifth Realm Emperor Realm experts, and Half-Saint Realm experts were the absolute