Blue Star, Eagle Kingdom, core conference room.
Bang!
Eagle Kingdom's eighty-year-old Supreme Commander, Donnie, slammed a hand onto the conference table, making the coffee cups on its surface buzz. He pointed at the consortium representatives, military generals, and state officials in suits across from him and cursed them out without reservation.
"Stop those idiotic power-leveling operations immediately! Stop paying ordinary players to lure monsters, take hits, and die over and over for you! Haven't our failures lately been enough?! Do you think we can win by forcibly concentrating resources in the hands of a few people? Dragon Kingdom can organize hundreds of thousands for positional warfare, while we can't even gather a few hundred level-thirty losers!"
Donnie himself had been one of the earlier players to enter the game. Ever since witnessing Dragon Kingdom's organized real-world transcendental military forces and psionic industry firsthand, he had completely seen through the failure of Eagle Kingdom's capital-built transcendental power.
Now, Dragon Kingdom's near-universal player base and players around the world had reaped enormous benefits from the Lobar Bronchus and Demon Heart Companion Star. But what about them? One battle for the Lung Leaf position had wiped out their entire force and inflicted devastating losses!
Not only did this leave him somewhat discouraged, it also filled him with an intense sense of crisis.
"Previously, we exchanged our concession for the right to purchase certain equipment. You are all people with elite educations, so naturally you have studied Dragon Kingdom's conduct and its historical magnanimity toward partners and tributary states. Today, they are delivering the first batch of basic equipment, on the condition that we accept their minimum security requirements. No one is to cause trouble at the delivery site. Do you understand?" Donnie issued the order forcefully.
The leaders of the various factions around