Shao Xiaozhan's death also made every faction in the Safe Zone realize something.
If even a "New Elite" like Qin Siyang could assassinate an enemy commander, the established powerhouses could surely do so with even greater ease.
After the apocalypse, the Safe Zone was established, and the various factions competed for supremacy.
Of the past ten years, only the first two and the two immediately after Sequences first awakened had been truly turbulent. Many famous figures had died because of enemy traps or their own mistakes.
But now that the Safe Zone was growing increasingly stable, deadly clashes between factions had become rarer. Those influential figures had gone from ruthless fighters on the front lines to players who controlled everything from behind the scenes.
Some believed the days of fighting to build their domains were over. From then on, it would be a contest of political skill and strategy.
Even if they lost ground in those struggles, their factions would merely suffer losses. Their own lives would never be threatened-people of their stature had already become too big to fall.
Yet once the entire pie within the Safe Zone had been divided up and friction between factions grew increasingly apparent, they gradually realized that confrontations tested not only their factions' strength, but their personal strength as well.
Yan Budong, Jiang Yuanrui, Yu Bianwei, Osses, Choi Chan-hoon, Wang Jixin, Shao Xiaozhan...
Every one of those names was renowned.
Yet all of them had died at the hands of "assassins."
The deaths of those key figures had severely weakened their factions. Yet none of the masterminds who had sent those "assassins" had faced retaliation from their enemies-
No one wanted to expend too much effort on a dead person.
Killing just one person could unlock an enormous share of the spoils.
That