Of course, no matter how arrogant those people were, they did not dare to go too far.
If an actual head-on conflict broke out, they would be no match for the Great Xia Officials, not to mention that Great Xia's player count dwarfed that of every other country...
Besides, Dark Shadow had only been absent for a while. He was not dead.
As long as the name Dark Shadow remained on the level leaderboard, no one would dare act recklessly.
But that did not mean there was nothing they could do.
Powerful players gathered in Sakura Country, Great Cold Country, Tianzhu Country, Great Australia, and the North America Empire's New Gold Mountain region. Almost simultaneously, they launched an operation that shocked the world!
Ever since the Godforsaken Game descended, there had been plenty of Great Xia players all over the world.
For example, in Sakura Country's capital, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow guild occupied what had once been Adachi Ward, gathering many Great Xia players who had been living and working in Sakura Country.
As players everywhere gradually challenged the High-Tier Divine Authority Tower and became able to build their own Teleportation Arrays, quite a few returned to their homeland.
But many players still chose to remain in other countries.
The reason was...
Great Xia now had far more players than other countries.
In the vast majority of Great Xia's cities, the popular leveling zones around the cities were always overcrowded. In places where monsters respawned quickly, or demons were plentiful and easy to kill, it was impossible to secure a spot.
Some of the harder areas were relatively empty, but very few players could go there.
As a result, the vast majority of players within Great Xia could no longer level at full speed.
The competition was too fierce!