The Lord’s Empire

Zhao Fu teleported to the Southern Continent and went to the massive rift before sneaking into the Fish Scale world. The Fish Scale world was currently gathering its army, with war cries sounding out everywhere. There was an aura of conquering all around as they prepared for an invasion.

Even though Southern Continent was another of Great Qin’s enemies and it being destroyed would reduce the pressure on Great Qin, would the Fish Scale people stop after conquering the Southern Continent? This was not possible at all; they would instead continue to invade the rest of the human world. When that time came, what Great Qin would face was not just a Continent but an entire world. This would place even greater pressure on Great Qin.

If Zhao Fu wanted to stop the Fish Scale world’s invasion, the best time was now. This was because after they conquered the Southern Continent, it would be almost impossible to drive them away. No matter how powerful Great Qin was, it was still not powerful enough to face off against an entire world.

If they started to fight, the other side could use their advantage in being able to revive, making it quite disadvantageous for the human world. After all, now that everyone’s bodies had been brought into the real world, the players’ battle intent was not very strong anymore.

The situation was quite difficult to deal with, because Zhao Fu was not as strong as he wanted to be. It would be quite difficult for Great Qin to face an entire world, but could he ally with the others to defend the human world? That was not feasible either.

This was because Zhao Fu simply did not want to work with those people, as they had just been enemies. However, if he did not ally with others, Great Qin would be too weak to do anything. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place. After thinking for a while, Zhao Fu could not think of anything; did he have to join with the other factions and just suffer a bit?

When he thought of this, Zhao Fu could not help but sigh. He decided to make a decision after obtaining more precise information.

Zhao Fu had set up a rough intelligence network using the system faction that he controlled. Even though he was unable to obtain some more secret information, obtaining some general information was easily done.

Most of the forces were player factions, because even stupid people understood that this was the best time to attack. After all, there was hatred between the two worlds from the very beginning, and they could no longer co-exist with each other. If they did not take this opportunity to destroy the human world while they could still revive, they would definitely regret it in the future.

The Fish Scale world had roughly 18 billion players, which was about twice as many as what the human world had. Even though not all of them would attack, at least ten billion would.

Great Qin had a population of eight billion or so and an army of 800 million soldiers, but Zhao Fu would not use all of them to fight against the Fish Scale people. After all, it would come at a great cost, and Great Qin had many enemies; he could not afford to concentrate his forces on something like this.

Moreover, some Fish Scale system factions would be joining in as well, and it was difficult to estimate just how many of them there would be. In front of an entire world, Great Qin’s strength seemed quite weak, but Zhao Fu did not want to ally with those other people either. After all, Akhenaten and some others had tried to destroy Great Qin before, so how could Zhao Fu work together with them?

Zhao Fu really was not someone who could repay evil with good. However, even if the Fish Scale world attacked, the one who was worried the most would not be Zhao Fu but the Southern Continent. If the Fish Scale world did not threaten Great Qin, Zhao Fu would not care at all.

Zhao Fu decided to leave this matter for now; he would not actively do anything. Perhaps after the Southern Continent was attacked, those people would ask him for help. He would not take it upon himself to go and find them first.

After making this decision, Zhao Fu headed to the system faction that he controlled.

The faction was developing quite well, with system factions continuously joining. It now had 2,800 system main cities, and 2,400 City Lords were controlled by brain bugs while 400 were not.

Because they were clearing out regions while constructing a Great Wall, they had only cleared out half of the regions they had taken over, which was 300 or so regions. They had gained a large number of people, with their overall population being at two billion people and their military being at 300 million soldiers.

With such a powerful force, it was definitely the top faction in the Darkwater Continent. Because of this, it was viewed with hostility by player factions and some other system factions.

Compared to the Southern Continent’s crisis, Zhao Fu cared more about the situation in the Darkwater Continent. This was because the faction was developing too quickly, and others were starting to think about attacking it. Being too strong was not a good thing.

This forced Zhao Fu to change his plans and slow down the pace at which the faction was developing. He expressed goodwill to the various factions, not because he was afraid of them but because he already had too many things going on and he did not have time to deal with them.

Now that the faction had 2,800 system main cities, they took up nearly 20% of the Darkwater Continent. After becoming a bit stronger in some time, he would deal with them.

Perhaps it was because they were planning to invade the human world, but they were not very united in their hostility towards Zhao Fu’s faction. After seeing the faction express its goodwill and stop rampantly developing so quickly, they stopped showing any hostility.

They were quite surprised about this. They had just been about to ally together against that faction, but that faction had been quite intelligent and acted first.

It had acknowledged its wrongdoing and stopped expanding so quickly. As such, they could no longer attack it, as it was not as great of a threat and there were not many people allying against it. No one knew if they would be able to destroy it in the future, but most people only cared about their immediate benefits.

After dealing with these matters, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin. He was not in a hurry to act and decided to wait for people to ask Great Qin for help. In fact, he could even use certain methods to deal with the Fish Scale world himself. First, he had to have discussions with his subordinates.

He did not hear much about Yu Xuan from his trip to the Fish Scale world. After that last big battle, Yu Xuan had gone back to recover and there had not been any news from him since. For some reason, he was not participating in this invasion.

Based on his status as World Protector, his wounds should have healed already after such a long time again. After all, Mo Qi, who had been injured to a similar degree, had long since appeared and participated in that battle for the Primogenitor Statue.

That time, Zhao Fu had released his three Fate Stars and injured Mo Qi even more heavily to the point that he had almost died. This time, his wounds would be even more difficult to recover from, because his body would be corroded by the three stars’ power. It would take him even longer to recover this time.

As such, Zhao Fu was not worried about the Dark Demon world at all. The one he was worried about the most was Yu Xuan; he would be the biggest issue.

Now that they were facing a potential invasion from the Fish Scale world, Great Qin could do two things to prepare, which were to both actively strike first and also reinforce its defenses.

Both of these things had to be prepared now; otherwise, when the Fish Scale people attacked, it would be too late.