"Nothing to do today. Time to build sky-piercing pillars."

The distance kept shrinking.

Four kilometers, 3.5 kilometers, 3.1 kilometers.

Eternal Night Continent maintained its speed, showing no intention of slowing down, while Excellence Continent remained where it was, with no intention of giving way.

No, that wasn't quite right.

To be precise, it had advanced one kilometer toward Eternal Night Continent.

It hadn't moved far.

But its meaning was plain.

An invitation.

Come.

Inside the Strategist Pavilion, Mortal Domain was conducting its final reconnaissance assessment of the continent.

"Domain Lord, the dark detector has been activated. The opposing continent also focuses on military-branch dark technology, and they've unlocked dark technology up to the fifteenth node, 'War Dividend.'"

Chen Fan quietly listened to Chen Jiutian's report.

Mortal Domain had painstakingly accumulated dark technology source points for so many years just to unlock the fifteenth military-branch dark technology. Yet this fourth-level continent had reached that point too.

They truly couldn't be underestimated.

This was both an opportunity and a crisis.

Since the enemy had unlocked War Dividend, they surely had affiliated continents too. The only question was how many. If they had a lot, that would pose a considerable challenge to Mortal Domain.

Of course.

It would also be a tremendous opportunity.

It meant that, as long as Mortal Domain won, it could inherit all the enemy's affiliated continents.

"We've finished compiling the list of their structures. So far, we haven't detected any gold-grade city-defense structures in reserve, but they may be hidden underground. We currently lack the ability to scan that deep."

Chen Fan pondered for a while before speaking.

"Say hello first."

"Once they return fire, we'll check the power of their sky-piercing pillars to determine how many stacks of War Dividend they have."

If they had five stacks or fewer.

They would fight.

If they had ten or