Di Nian Bully joining the battle came as a surprise to most players.
But to a few players, it was inevitable.
Divine King, in particular, had anticipated this long ago.
He knew Di Nian Bully's personality all too well.
Bully Flights were now departing the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range for the Earthshaking Continent in great numbers, completely unlike their previous chaotic schedules.
That proved the players were being deployed en masse to the same battlefield.
At a time like this, a thought would pop into Di Nian Bully's head: Have those beastly players found something good? No, I have to take a look.
A thorough investigation would follow.
It had not joined the battle earlier because the benefits were not great enough.
But once Illusion and the Mechanical Overlord's three clones appeared, things were completely different.
All four combat units could yield Rule Inscriptions.
And each Rule Inscription could create an independent troop type.
In the future, the Dark Tide System could also be used to build these rules into an entirely new interconnected system.
This was a temptation Di Nian Bully could not resist.
Under its control, Dark Tide Particles crashed down upon the Mechanical Army filling the world like a collapsing sky.
Countless hideous Evil Spirits continuously took shape within the tide.
But the main troop type was no longer the thick-skinned Natural Disaster type meat shields responsible for soaking up damage on the Village Entrance Battlefield.
For external conquests, the Bully Alliance brought out nothing but its sharpest butcher's blades.
Frenzy type assassins, their bodies flickering and wreathed in black flames, slipped through gaps in the mechanical arrays like phantoms. Their sharp Claw Blades scored the divine metal armor, leaving bone-deep gashes that continued to erode, turning into wisps of black fog that merged into the Dark