Originally, Darkwater Continent had been split evenly between system forces and player forces, each occupying half the continent and standing in rivalry. The system forces controlled by Great Qin continuously absorbed the system forces of other continents, while the other side continuously absorbed player forces.
Yet their pace was far slower than Great Qin's. Great Qin's side now possessed more than 8,000 cities, while the other side had only a little over 4,000. The gap in strength had already widened to more than twofold.
At this time, they too learned that the Great Qin Empire had unified the human world and was launching a counteroffensive outward. Something this huge could not possibly be kept hidden.
The peace pact would expire next year. By then, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that Great Qin would formally invade the Fish Scale World. This left the Fish Scale World deeply panicked, because Great Qin's strength seemed capable of crushing them outright.
With Great Qin's current strength, it even dared to forcefully invade three worlds that had developed for decades. As for worlds like theirs, which had developed for only a few years, there was hardly any need to mention them.
Under such immense pressure, rather than reaching a unified opinion, the Fish Scale World produced all sorts of ideas. There were even people who advocated proactively surrendering to Great Qin.
However, Netherwater Continent had already been ceded to Great Qin. Darkwater Continent, which was closest to it, would certainly be the first to suffer an attack, turning this place into an extremely dangerous region.
This caused many people to no longer be willing to come, affecting the speed at which they absorbed other forces. Otherwise, the system forces controlled by Great Qin would have grown even larger, while the player forces