"Comrade Su Ye!"
The Great Xia team leader strode forward, gave a crisp military salute, then said solemnly, "First, congratulations on establishing the first Alliance on the entire server."
"You're too kind."
Su Ye waved a hand, keenly noticing the gravity in his tone. "Judging by your expressions, you aren't just here to congratulate me?"
"That's right. Because you established an Alliance, the Golden Race gathered the leaders of the various races for another emergency meeting a few days ago."
"The agenda was simple. They've realized they can no longer eliminate you through conventional means, so they intend to change their strategy and use Scorched Earth against you."
"Scorched Earth?" Su Ye frowned. "What does that mean?"
"It's simple."
The Great Xia team leader said gravely, "Every race will withdraw all the personnel they've stationed along your road. They won't send anyone else to obstruct your progress."
"Besides that, all the races will withdraw from any regular Instance you enter from now on."
"Without members of those races serving as monsters and final bosses in the Instances, you'll clear them immediately. However, your clear rating will be the lowest possible, so your rewards will naturally be meager, or even nonexistent."
Su Ye narrowed his eyes at that.
So that was what they meant by Scorched Earth.
Those bastards from the Gray Fog Civilization had realized they couldn't beat him on the Tier Three Road Section. No matter how many they sent, they were just feeding him kills, so they'd simply decided to stop fighting.
By withdrawing all those walking bundles of experience, they intended to cut off his supply of resources.
"Primitive monsters and Secret Realms shouldn't be affected, right?" Su Ye asked.
"You can rest assured about that."
The Great Xia team leader nodded. "Primitive monsters are automatically generated