A melee?
"Isn't this about seizing the flag? How did it turn into a melee?" Da Huang asked curiously.
"I told you before: each of the five families has a separate entrance."
"Before the resource battle begins, we can't see the others. In other words, nobody knows who the other families have sent to fight this time."
"Once the resource battle begins, the scene changes, and a path appears before us."
"The other four families are the same."
"But the five paths eventually converge into one."
"At the end of that path is the flag we have to fight for."
"That means once it begins, we have to charge over immediately. Not just to seize the flag, but also to stop the others."
"If we're too slow and someone else gets there first, we'll lose the initiative and might well lose the resource battle outright."
"It's a contest of speed and strength."
Put that way, the resource battle really was simple. There weren't many complicated stages.
As long as they were fast enough and strong enough, they could win without much difficulty.
"With rules this simple, those old geezers spent over thirty years on the first resource battle?"
"They... had a lot of patience." Chen Changan felt almost unable to complain.
"Maybe their strength was evenly matched, and they kept each other in check, so... things dragged on a bit," Yun Tian said awkwardly.
"Fine, then we'll wait."
"When the resource battle starts, I'll seize the flag. You take care of stopping the others."
"Let's try to... finish the resource battle within the time it takes to burn a stick of incense."
Finish the battle within the time it took to burn a stick of incense?
At Chen Changan's words, Yun Tian and the others stared at him in shock.