Sweet Island, Forest of Abundance.
Yang Yi sat up from the ground and surveyed his surroundings.
At some point, this place had become scorched earth. The ground was parched and cracked, with sparks still rising from it, and the temperature exceeded two thousand degrees. Ordinary creatures would probably turn into firewood within seconds here. It was practically a forbidden zone for life.
As for why there had been a great fire, that was a long story, and not one convenient to describe further.
What Su Na had just said flashed through Yang Yi's mind. It concerned the vote.
Istil was in charge of the project, while the Great Newspaper handled publicity, so at Su Na's suggestion, a backdoor had been left in the voting platform for manipulation.
Simply put, they could control the outcome of the vote from behind the scenes. They held the data anyway, leaving plenty of room for manipulation. They could even steer public opinion to match the result, leaving almost no flaws.
That way, they could guarantee with absolute certainty that the next target would be the Holy Capital, abandoning the operation against Salt Island.
"Forget it. Let the players' vote decide our next target.
"One of those two calls herself a god, while the other is a bizarre-looking king. One has countless believers, and the other has countless soldiers. Unless we actually fight them, it's hard to judge their relative strength.
"But the Goddess's power will weaken as the number of her believers decreases. That could give us an opening.
"As for the Bewilderment King, even if we use Sweet Island as the battlefield, we can lure him high above the Sea of Abundance. Then we can use the Feast Master's power to stall him or disrupt the battle... The two options are actually about