Chapter 2183: Chapter 2183: This Is a Huge Threat
With Du You’s orders delivered, the Life Empire, which had been silent in the world’s middle regions for a long time, finally began to assemble its army toward the border regions. Of course, Du You had long prepared excuses.
After all, these years, the surrounding cities have continuously probed us and attacked us.
Du You never gave up on these excuses and now they are just right for use.
As for why wars must have excuses, this might be a habit of Du You’s. At least in Du You’s view, it’s better than the people of this world who attack without reason.
In reality, everyone’s goals are similar, but having a reason always makes people feel more at ease.
A fight without reason is no different from acting like a scoundrel; it’s different when you have a reason—you are just.
And with Du You’s move, many surrounding cities were immediately annexed. Cities at further distances didn’t feel so pleasant. Immediately, one by one, cities united to form several alliances.
The frontal alliance can be said to be the strongest, but even so, they only have fifty strong eighth-tier individuals, incomparable to Du You. Most importantly, the quality of these eighth-tier individuals isn’t enough.
Of course, they seem to understand this, which is why they united.
"This is a huge threat, the biggest threat nearby. Although they have been lurking these years, I know they’ve been preparing for war, but unfortunately, our strength is not enough."
"Yes, their system is really good. Under such a system, talents are continuously cultivated, and their forces only grow stronger. The numbers of seventh-tier and eighth-tier individuals will increase."
These years, Du You in the middle region neither expanded nor showed signs, but how could the city lords be at ease? After all, the Life Empire’s actions never stopped.
Although it’s just expansion toward the border regions, it is still expansion.
Moreover, the internal environment is exceptionally good, constantly attracting more and more people to join.
Initially, it was just their commoners wanting to join, later leading to capable adventurers, and then some strong individuals were attracted, even seventh-tier strong ones.
Without their own city, relying on others’ cities, it’s extremely difficult for seventh-tier individuals to advance to eighth-tier.
They saw hope—if they could achieve merit in the Life Empire, they could nominally gain a city as territory. They don’t need to do anything, they can continue their cultivation relying on the city’s boost to break through the current tier.
With this, how could the city lords not be stressed? On one hand, they had to block everywhere, preventing their commoners from escaping. On the other hand, they had to strengthen control, preventing their strong subordinates from leaving.
Really exhausting many city lords, everyone pays more and more costs constantly, yet the effect hasn’t been significant. If the Life Empire hadn’t expanded this way, they would’ve already given up in despair.
Because of this, they acted continuously. Different cities united, forming alliances.
Some cities also mimicked the Life Empire’s management style and began clearing surroundings and building towns.
Although this affects their city development, it’s still somewhat beneficial to the people. Unfortunately, their scale is too small; even with alliances, they aren’t a complete empire.
Everyone just cooperates mutually, even the city lords with their subordinates, are cooperative relationships, not absolute subordinate relationships. It’s not easy to make them work well.
So, although there’s some effect, it’s still not satisfactory.
They also spy on the Life Empire constantly, sending spies inside. But the problem is, they are just individual cities, not as powerful as an empire.
Little professional spies have been cultivated. Over the years, although people have entered the Life Empire, none have brought complete intelligence back. They could only bring back some edge public information.
Even most frustrating of all, some people actually got assimilated into the Life Empire after entering, directly joining the Life Empire. Some took their families away, some couldn’t.
Those who couldn’t bring their families often gave them up, found new partners in the Life Empire, and established new families. Because of this, many cities became exposed under the Life Empire’s gaze.
All along, the Life Empire never attacked them, but constantly criticized these aspects.
Initially, they didn’t understand the purpose, but now they realize these are the excuses for attacking them. With these excuses, even if they want to refute, they can’t.
Of course, most people never thought of refuting, they see war as war, why refute it. Unfortunately, they didn’t realize their subordinates’ morale and mentality were problematic.
Once war starts, they will completely lose public support. Then, no one will even fight.
Maybe they don’t care, after all, many weak ones can’t compare to one strong person.
"Now the issue is how we solve this problem." After a long silence, someone finally spoke. "The Life Empire has been quiet before, but now they are moving. Based on what they are doing in the border regions, we are definitely in their expansion range. How can we block them?"
They thought of blocking, not eliminating the Life Empire, because they are incapable.
"I think perhaps we can alliance."
"Haven’t we already allied, but our strength is insufficient." It’s not just a lack of strength; they aren’t united. In battle, they avoid hindering each other, but nobody wants to risk themselves for others.
"I don’t mean us, but with other city alliances. We all know, since the Life Empire’s rise, the threat affects not just us, even cities behind us have allied."
This person glanced around, then continued, "Just like individual cities, our separate strengths are not opponents, but we have a common enemy, which is the foundation of an alliance. As long as we can persuade them, unite us all together, I think the Life Empire would definitely not dare to attack us."
