"Level 2."
Lin Yi pondered for a moment.
He would definitely participate. This division was exactly what he wanted.
On a Level 2 battlefield, the rules were the most solid shield. They would let him make the most of his far-superior grasp of the rules and combat experience, without having to constantly guard against suppression from Star Vortex Rank opponents or even stronger ones. At most, he would have to deal with the alien prodigies on the other side.
But Lin Yi was thinking about something else.
Something was wrong.
Looking back, this border skirmish with the Kunmo Race was deeply suspicious.
The conflict had escalated far too quickly.
In his previous life, he had been a small-time mercenary struggling at the bottom. Cut off from information, he had focused solely on growing stronger and saving Blue Star, with little sense of the broader situation.
Lin Yi only vaguely remembered that large-scale graded battlefields of this kind had opened around a thousand years later, not long after the next Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Tournament ended. They had even skipped the usual gradual escalation, moving quickly to Level 4 battlefields. Rumors of Star Domain Rank powerhouses falling had become commonplace.
Now, with World-Deriving Rank access to information, he had been catching up on a wealth of previously inaccessible insider material about border history, relations between races, and the evolution of conflicts.
Comparing the two, Lin Yi arrived at a conclusion that weighed heavily on him.
By the precedent of countless years, border skirmishes usually began on Level 1–3 battlefields, with the conflict capped at Star Vortex Rank. It was more like probing and controlled attrition—mere "shoving"—and could often go on for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years.
Star Domain Rank powerhouses were the backbone of their respective forces. They were