"Who is it this time?" He Yi turned around to look.

The tide of players galloping toward us carried the emblem of Sunset City on their shoulder. There were two possibilities here. Either the Northern Alliance was so surprised by our attack that the English server failed to match the timing of their assault with the Indian server’s, or they thought that we were so weak that we would barely be able to fend off Flames of War, and that this would be a clean-up operation.

I believed that it was a mixture of both. The previous Nation War had been overwhelmingly in their favor that they believed us to be easy pickings. Barring a few exceptional people, no one imagined that the China server would join forces with the Chaotic 27, Frostsword City, Iron Horse City and the three southeast cities to launch a lightning-fast counterattack.

……

Li Chengfeng gazed at the distance from atop his mount. "The system says that there are around 4 million of them, which is almost their entire playerbase. They truly are the good ‘friends’ of the Vietnamese, aren’t they? I wonder how much they were paid to go this far?"

I rose to my feet, patted away the dust on my...