After weighing it over again and again, Zong Shen ultimately chose the restart option provided by [Alternate Choice III].
A real man had to face a restart without fear!
He had no idea whether restarting would affect the Defense Challenges of the other lords, but that was not something he needed to worry about. Besides, he believed that even if there really was a problem, the Lord System would resolve it perfectly.
"It's decided, then. Life... pfft... this challenge will restart!"
For some reason, Zong Shen felt inexplicably excited. Once he had confirmed the alternate choice, he did not hesitate and selected it decisively. If he was going to restart, he might as well do it cleanly!
As his decision settled, new prompts immediately appeared.
[Selection Complete]
[Alternate Choice III: Challenge Restart]
[Restarting the challenge for you]
After the text appeared, everything before Zong Shen vanished, plunging him into boundless darkness.
He did not know how much time had passed. When his vision returned, he was already standing atop a tower of the Lord's Fortress, looking out into the distance from its edge.
However, the scenery in the distance was extremely blurry, like a poorly received CCTV feed flickering with strange patterns.
[Territory rewind simulation complete]
[Current status: Challenge countdown 23:45:00]
[War Fog state being constructed]
[Shadows being laid]
[Replicas being deployed]
[Spacetime timeline continuously being corrected]
[Causality deduction template being applied. Provided no additional influence is caused by your actions, the Dark Orc side in this challenge will have a 99.9999...% probability of evolving according to the circumstances and strategy of the previous round]
[Rules being reinforced]
[Domain tier strength: Dimensional World]
[Due to this challenge restart, the Defense Challenge timeline has experienced partial disruption. The final reward settlement time for all participants will be delayed by 12