Su Xiao kept an eye on the situation on the World Contact Platform and basically confirmed that the grand melee was about to begin. The largest fragment of the "Initial Mark" discovered so far had been found in the "Eternal Frost Plains."
The "Eternal Frost Plains" lay at the northernmost edge of the Sea Race's territory. However, even with the Sea Race's strength, they had built a towering barrier beside the plains called the Winter Wall.
Strictly speaking, this world had four major powers: the Beast Race, the Sea Race, the Tribes, and the Icefield Race.
However, the Beast Race and Sea Race had been locked in a prolonged war, making them the protagonists of this world. Though the Tribes possessed strength, they were disunited. More importantly, the Icefield Race on the "Eternal Frost Plains" were not living beings—or even organic matter.
This caused the Icefield Race to take "if others do not offend me, I will not offend them" to the extreme. In addition, the resources they needed differed greatly from those of living races. The only energy resources they contested were too far from their territory. The "Ancient Ruins" and "Crystal Forest" lay between the Beast Race and Sea Race, leaving the Icefield Race no chance to interfere.
More importantly, Bitter Cold was essential to the Icefield Race's existence, just as living beings needed water and oxygen. Once they left the bitter cold, the Icefield Race would melt.
As a result, despite being extremely vicious, the Icefield Race had little aggressiveness. Or rather, the entire Eternal Frost Plains already belonged to them. Even if they wanted to keep expanding outward, they could not. Not to mention, a thousand-meter-high Winter Wall had been built along the plains' edges. That solid barrier of ice and steel blocked the Icefield Race's