"Requisition?" Fitehaliya was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but say, "Brute, have you lost your mind?"
At this moment, not only Fitehaliya thought so—everyone present in the fortress felt the same way.
The Blood Covenant Alliance was indeed a powerful superpower alliance, with quite a few NPC factions among its ranks. But that was only true across the major sea regions.
Over here on the Western Continent, the Blood Covenant Alliance held no such advantage. And Starfall Fortress was far from the seas—sending a large army over would be impossible, let alone doing anything else.
As for Starfall Fortress's defenses, even if the five major super guilds showed up, they'd probably be helpless. After all, the entire Starfall Fortress was guarded by a fourth-tier Sacred Dragon. Even a fifth-tier expert would have no choice but to watch.
This was precisely why Starfall Fortress had been able to stand tall here all this time. Otherwise, the nearby NPC factions with fifth-tier experts stationed in them would have made their move long ago.
The only thing anyone could do against Starfall Fortress now was to blockade the map—but that was something the Blood Covenant Alliance clearly couldn't manage.
"Lost my mind?" Brute smiled. "I don't think so. Starfall Fortress's defenses are certainly powerful, and with a Sacred Dragon guarding it, very few factions can shake it. But if they had to face over a hundred fourth-tier NPCs blockading the map, I wonder how long Starfall Fortress could hold out?"
"Over a hundred fourth-tier NPCs?"
The moment Brute finished speaking, everyone present drew in a sharp breath.
Not only were NPCs generally higher in level than players, but their combat strength at the same level was also superior—because NPCs had better weapons, equipment, and magic skills across the board.
Over a hundred fourth-tier NPCs!
That was roughly the number of fourth-tier NPCs a small kingdom could muster.
In other words, the Blood Covenant Alliance could actually dispatch the peak fighting force of a small kingdom to blockade the map. Their strength was simply terrifying!
"And I've also heard that over on the Eastern Continent right now, flames of war are raging everywhere. Many superpowers have been destroyed, and even Zero Wing's main city can barely hold its own now—let alone moving freely outside or gathering any kind of resources." Brute couldn't help but add. "If they lose Starfall Fortress's resources, I doubt they'll be able to hold on much longer."
"So now we're inviting Zero Wing to become a member of our Blood Covenant Alliance. This way, not only can Starfall Fortress receive better development, but our Blood Covenant Alliance can also help Zero Wing fend off those outsiders when the time comes. Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?"
Faced with Brute's proposal, everyone present—even Fitehaliya—was momentarily at a loss for words.
The situation on the Eastern Continent was no longer a secret.
It could be said that on the very first day the World Corridor opened, it had alarmed the entire Divine Realm, throwing countless factions into chaos.
A bunch of forces had appeared out of nowhere and, without a word, destroyed the cities of several first-rate guilds. They hadn't even spared the guild cities of superpowers.
The superpowers had originally wanted to retaliate, but once they launched their counterattack, they discovered that those conquered guild cities had, at some unknown point, gathered a massive number of experts—including fourth-tier class holders among them.
The result was self-evident. None of the forces the superpowers sent survived.
At first, the many factions of the Divine Realm assumed this was just a newly risen superpower. Such things weren't uncommon in the Divine Realm—through continuous accumulation, a faction could soar overnight. So the major powers hadn't paid it too much attention.
But the very next day, more than ten superpowers suddenly emerged. The number of fourth-tier classes among them was so vast that the local Divine Realm superpowers couldn't even compare. That very day, one superpower was completely destroyed and carved up.
That battle left every faction in the Divine Realm stunned!
A single newly emerged superpower was one thing, but more than ten superpowers appearing at once, with so many fourth-tier classes among them—that was inconceivable no matter how you looked at it.
After a frenzy of investigation, the Divine Realm's major factions discovered that these suddenly emerged superpowers didn't belong to their world at all. Through various covert investigations, they learned that these people had come from other Divine Realm worlds, and they didn't even live on Earth. Their population was no smaller than their own, and their combat capabilities were even more formidable.
For these people, the Divine Realm world was their entire life!
Moreover, the foundations of these external superpowers far surpassed the local Divine Realm's—not by a small margin, but by entirely different tiers of existence.
In less than five days, not only had several superpowers been destroyed, but six or seven kingdoms had fallen as well. Those conquered kingdoms had become playgrounds for the external world's NPCs, who plundered resources frantically and continuously ate into territory.
Afterward, the Divine Realm continent's local kingdoms and empires organized players to resist these external world players and NPC forces. This war was absolutely the greatest in Divine Realm history—dozens of kingdoms and several empires joined forces, and through dozens of large and small battlefields across the Eastern Continent, they finally managed to blockade the external world's NPC forces to the other side.
But the cost was nearly one-third of their land.
And even this blockade only stopped the NPC forces' main armies. Individual NPCs and player factions could still move freely.
Given that the local Divine Realm players were clearly inferior in both level and combat capability, the entire Eastern Continent's players were at an absolute disadvantage, relying solely on their alliance with local NPCs to barely hold their own against the external world's players.
And the external world's players and NPCs kept pouring in. It was foreseeable that the Eastern Continent wouldn't be able to hold on much longer, and before long, the conflict would spread to the Western Continent—just as it had already reached the major sea regions.