Putting further thoughts aside, Cheng Yu chose to exchange his currency, then opened the System Panel again.
Host: Cheng Yu (black iron three-star) Ability: Heart-Bewitching Spell (black iron three-star) Equipped title: The Kid Watched by the Big Shot (epic) Titles: The Kid Watched by the Big Shot (epic), ability effects: ... (click to expand); Deep Sea Slaughterer (gold), ability effects: ... Equipment: None Achievements: None Currency: 4,400,000 Held items: Big Shot's Aura (epic) ×5 Evaluation: You barely qualify as a weakling now. You may have relied on outside help, but black iron is still black iron (lol). Keep working at it.
After closing the System Panel, Cheng Yu stretched and decided to catch up on some sleep. He had barely slept over the past few days. If not for his black iron constitution, he suspected he could have fallen asleep standing up. Now that the Karen Empire had surrendered and the Naga Empire had fallen, he no longer needed to worry about the war.
And events unfolded just as Cheng Yu had expected.
The Karen Empire's surrender caught every surviving nation on the continent off guard. With Cheng Yu deliberately allowing the news to spread, word of the Karen Empire's "treatment" and the Naga Empire's fate soon swept across the continent.
Facing armies advancing from both the Naga Empire and the Karen Empire, the already hard-pressed Orc Empire surrendered.
After granting them the same treatment as the Karen Empire, Cheng Yu turned his attention to the Jebel Theocracy.
But to Cheng Yu's surprise, they gave no response whatsoever.
Cheng Yu frowned, but he had something more important to deal with for now: the Karen Empire's prodigies had all been gathered.
So Cheng Yu decided to leave the matter for the moment. Meanwhile, apart from the troops needed to