How could seizing the territory matter on such a tiny island? Territory isn't important, what matters is talent, the strong ones.
In the presence of other foreign powers from two nations, those powerful forces only needed to heed the call of national war. Since they had carved out their territories, they naturally did not wish to submit loyally.
Forcibly centralizing power only backfired, severing one's own arm.
Tian Xin preferred to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix. Having defected from Eden Garden to here, she was naturally clear about the ins and outs of this place.
Levan said, "Hey! It's not that I couldn't find Tai Sui. I didn't even see those two pufferfish!"
"When I found them, they were already two headless corpses!"
Violet was shocked. Dead?
"I remember the pufferfish and the spotted pig, they were sub-elephants, right?"
Levan nodded, "Yes, sub-elephants, and fully equipped, their strength not less than Mina and mine."