Today's first update: Chapter 3493! 1/4!
These three words were not spoken loudly, yet they seemed to drop a silent thunderclap into the hushed hall.
Xu Buwan's frost-sealed phoenix eyes abruptly widened the instant she heard that number. Deep within her pupils, an overwhelming shock and confusion flashed past, as though she suspected she had misheard.
Her entire body seemed frozen in place by an invisible force. Even her breathing stalled for a moment.
Nine... nine thousand eight hundred?!
That number crashed into her understanding like a meteor from beyond the heavens, leaving her utterly dazed.
However, since Xu Buwan still did not know the specific quota numbers held by the other Sequence Races—especially the long-established powerful races—in this war, the shock caused by that astonishing figure was naturally covered by another, more "reasonable" explanation: as expected of the unprecedented Millennium Period War of the Myriad Races!
It seemed that the baseline for quota allocation in this edition had been raised across the board to an unprecedented level.
Even the Huang Race, a "newly risen power" that had only just entered the S-tier Sequence and still fell slightly short of the top fifty, possessed as many as 9,800 slots. Then the human race, with its higher Sequence Ranking and deeper foundations—especially her maternal clan, the Phoenix Race, which stood at the pinnacle of the myriad races—would surely receive an even more enormous number of slots, perhaps even an astronomical figure she could not yet imagine.
"So that's how it is..."
Xu Buwan understood. The absurdity she had felt over prisoners actually receiving Saint War slots dissipated considerably, and her tone returned to calmness. "No wonder Lord Huang was so generous, casually giving two slots to my niece and me.
It seems the Saint War slots in this edition have