As Lin Bai built Magpie Bridges across the Eastern Continent on a massive scale, negotiations between the Heavenly Tang Nation and the Western Continent Federation were forced to a halt.
In the Western Continent parliament's temporary war command center, projections concerning Lin Bai changed so quickly that the attendees could barely keep up...
At that moment.
The projector displayed satellite images, one after another. Magpie Bridges covered almost the entire Eastern Continent, and their numbers were increasing at breakneck speed.
"Have the people of the Heavenly Tang Nation gone mad? This isn't how they usually operate!"
"Why are they compromising with Lin Bai?"
"They're traitors to the planet."
"Speaker, please issue an immediate order demanding that the Heavenly Tang Nation go to war against Lin Bai's invasion. We can send troops to assist them. Otherwise, we will regard them as enemies and destroy both them and Lin Bai on the Eastern Continent, whatever the cost." A white-haired general wore a grim expression.
"General Joseph, we can negotiate with Lin Bai, win him over, and squeeze out everything he has to offer. He may have an Easterner's face, but he isn't from our world, after all. He probably feels no allegiance to the Heavenly Tang Nation.
"Clearly, he hasn't obtained the Heavenly Tang Nation's approval for his actions there. He seems to be helping them, yet he's plunged their country into chaos. The people of the Heavenly Tang Nation won't like someone who refuses to submit to their authority. We can attract Lin Bai to our country with freedom and equality." The speaker was a brown-haired old woman named Mandelin.
"I don't like that fellow either. He'll drag the world into the abyss," said a legislator named Lucas.
"It's his Magpie Bridges you don't like, isn't it, Lucas?" Mandelin