Upon hearing Qin Chuan's words, the representatives of the various clans who had arrived in the Second Realm appeared shocked and confused, even beginning to doubt if they had misheard.
After all, they had already occupied half of the First Rank of Heavenly Dome Rank. How could this human leader still have the audacity to set terms?
"What terms do you wish to propose?" Pasia spoke with an icy tone. Even he, known for his calm and caution, was somewhat unable to suppress his own fury at this moment.
Yet facing the anger of these powerful figures, Qin Chuan seemed not to notice at all. He spoke very calmly, "If it weren't for you all, the human race could have continued to occupy more territories and acquire more resources. Now that our human race has stepped back, you naturally need to provide compensation."
"Are you insane?" A Second Rank warrior of the Crystal Clan glared, his expression full of disbelief.
Having already occupied so much of their territory and plundered so many resources, and this guy still wants them to pay compensation?!
"I'm certainly not crazy."
Qin Chuan looked around at the group of Second Ranks and said word by word, "A territory is worth the resources of 100 Mythical Stones. There are still thirty-two territories in the Heavenly Dome Rank that have not been occupied. You hand over the equivalent of 3200 Mythical Stones, and the human race will cease fighting."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.
Mythical Stones were merely red items, but as a tool that all clans could use, often serving as a standard measure of the value of equipment, a piece of gold equipment was worth about 5-10 Mythical Stones.
With these words, Qin Chuan had asked for several hundred resources—it was literally a lion's mouth demand.
Even the Blue Moon Chief Priest, who was only observing from the side, began to look at Qin Chuan with a somewhat strange expression.
"Impossible!" Pasia exclaimed in a low voice, "We can't possibly produce such compensation."
"Even if it means fighting to the death, my clan will definitely not make such compensation!" the delegate from the Dragon Clan said sternly.
"That's right, let's just fight to the death." The representative from the Dead Ghost Clan of the Second Realm echoed.
"Really?" Qin Chuan narrowed his eyes, "Then let's fight. Once the human race has occupied the entire First Realm of Heavenly Dome, we will block all clan entrances from the Dream World to Heavenly Dome."
"Kill any who enters."
"As for you Second Ranks unable to arrive, I don't plan to go up either. Let's just drag this out."
"If an inter-clan war breaks out, the losing side will certainly face extinction. Why should the human race rush to the Third Realm?"
"I'll just stay in the First Realm, until the end of time." Qin Chuan watched the increasingly changing expressions of the group of Second Ranks with a grin, "I've heard that Second Realm beings can live for five thousand years, those in the Third Realm over ten thousand years."
"If the human race stays in the First Rank of Heavenly Dome for tens of thousands of years, wait for you all to die out, with no fresh blood replenishing the clans, wouldn't the human race become the victors?"
"You…" Pasia's expression completely changed when he thought it through and realized the feasibility of what Qin Chuan was suggesting.
As long as they occupied the First Rank and prevented other clans from coming up, with no fresh blood to replenish them, wearing down the Second and Third Realms completely would naturally make humanity first.
But then, he thought of a problem and looked coldly towards Qin Chuan, "Can you live for tens of thousands of years? Without proceeding to the Second Realm, living in the Myth First Realm gives only a thousand years of lifespan!"
"A thousand years isn't enough?" Qin Chuan's smile remained unchanged. "Before, I was just an ordinary person. Living a century was the best blessing. Now, I can live a thousand years."
"You all probably didn't grow from ordinary human beginnings, did you?"
"A thousand years, for me, is already enough."
"Moreover, compared to a possible extinction, the human race doesn't mind trading a thousand years of lifespan for the long continuation of the clan." Qin Chuan looked at the group of Second Ranks before him, "How about it? Have you thought it through?"
The group of Second Ranks fell silent in unison.
If the human race really did as Qin Chuan said, they really had no way to counter it.
Damn, how did such a significant bug appear!
What to do now? Really submit to the human race in front of them, handing over such a massive compensation?
Considering their clans' thousands of years of foundation in the Heavenly Dome Rank, such compensation could indeed cause significant harm!
On the other hand, Qin Chuan stood with his arms crossed, a smile in his eyes.
He knew that such a tactic was completely unexpected to the six major clans, utterly unconventional.
If it had been the Heavenly Dome of before, such an approach definitely wouldn't have been viable, because this kind of severe game-progress slowing action would inevitably have drawn the Manager's intervention. But now, the Heavenly Dome Rank had fundamentally changed from before.
Today in Heavenly Dome, there were no Managers.
Here, players decided everything.
After a moment of secretive communication in their unique way, Pasia clenched his teeth and said, "Compensation is possible, but not that much."
"Our clans combined are willing to compensate the human race with resources equal to 1000 Mythical Stones."
"One thousand, huh…" Qin Chuan laughed inwardly, yet his expression showed great difficulty, "At the lowest, two thousand."
After some negotiating, they finally settled on 1600 Mythical Stones as the compensation amount.
The various clans gnashed their teeth, but Qin Chuan beamed with joy.
This way, he had experienced the advantages brought by information asymmetry, feeling the joy of the Moon Spirit.
If they didn't make any compensation, could the human race really keep staying idle in the First Realm of the Heavenly Dome forever?