The vanguard armies invading Blue Star were unlikely to send any powerful fighters.
But by launching scattered surprise invasions, they still managed to run amok with brazen arrogance.
Of Blue Star's supernatural forces, only the Land of Akatsuki and the Freak Alliance truly occupied territories of their own.
The supernatural forces in the Eastern Country still cooperated closely with ordinary people, while the United States maintained limited cooperation with the Foundation.
The supernatural forces elsewhere had established no cooperative relationships with the local authorities.
Supernatural forces were not superheroes, after all. Although they would resist invaders from outside, they would not go out of their way to worry about trivial matters such as whether buildings were destroyed.
As a result, ordinary armies still had to hold off many of the smaller alien forces.
Those armies of ordinary people paid an appalling price just to hold out until superhuman reinforcements arrived.
After several days of chaos, the vanguard forces from the various realms were finally wiped out. What delighted the leaders of those realms most, however, was that the Sorcerer Supreme really had not intervened.
Of course, his lack of intervention was merely an appearance. Jiang Xiang had already personally paid a visit to every faction that had sent vanguard forces to probe Blue Star-or rather, to their resource stockpiles.
He simply had not met with those factions' leaders. Instead, Jiang Xiang had just happened to stumble into their supply warehouses.
While he was there, he moved all their supplies into his personal storage space and set up a batch of illusion techniques for good measure.
After seeing that the Sorcerer Supreme had not intervened, the leaders of the various races watching from the edges of the Nine Realms completely bought Almus's lies. They called up every soldier they could