The Value of Unity

<Nation of Texas>

"IDIOTS! ALL OF THEM!"

This man was Apollo Creed, an African-American man who was currently the strongest individual in Texas. The person talking to him was his closest friend, Goose.

"Apollo, there's not much that can be done. There's no way we could have known they'd react so violently."

"Oh really?! Do you think that a whole race who has suffered through racism their whole lives in their previous world will tolerate the same treatment?! Those Dark Elves now control the coast by Galveston! Do you understand what that means, Goose?"

"I do." The stocky man dressed in body armor named Goose Alvarado who was Apollo's closest subordinate had a look of regret on his face. This whole thing wasn't really his fault. It's just that he blamed himself for not reacting faster.

Five days ago, while the Dark Elves were in the middle of settling themselves in, they were raided by a racist party. It should be known that these guys were a very small minority.

Unfortunately for Apollo and the rest, this was enough to bring back painful memories for the Dark Elves who also suffered blatant racism in the previous world from the other races. This was the goal of the racists, to destroy the alliance while it was still fragile.

Unfortunately for them as well, the Dark Elves who were superior, found out that their base of operations was located in Galveston, by the coast. They were massacred by the Dark Elves, whom, while they recognized that it wasn't Apollo's doing, was warier now more than ever. This meant that they wouldn't be sharing the advanced versions of their body enhancing techniques.

Apollo could only extend his sincerest apologies, and while he didn't believe that the Dark Elves would become his enemy, there was still the potential. Not to mention they had access to such an easily defensible area and access to an aquatic mutant creature hunting ground just south of them.

***

Xiamen, China.

The Giants maintained a healthy transition with the previous Chinese University Student and now Leader, Jian Zihao. He had extended an offer to the Government to work together, but when they required him to hand over half the Giant population, he refused. After all, he was aware that they had to maintain good relationships.

The only issue was that, when one of the giants got wounded during a territory challenge, its blood fell onto a person. This person automatically felt the magical properties of this blood. After finding this out, the Giant asked him to keep it a secret. After saying that he would, the Giant, being the straightforward and honest race that they are, believed him.

Not a day later, the man was already blackmailing the Giant from before for more blood. After Jian Zihao found out about his exploitation, he had him hunted down while the man fled to the Government's territory. In exchange for benefits and a good life, he exposed this information to them, giving them an even stronger sense of urgency.

"We need to find a way to stop that brat, now!"

"Did you see how much stronger that man's body was? It hasn't even been more than a week!"

"Exactly! Why don't we just Nuke them!"

"That's impossible. When the new world began, all of our Nuclear weapons disappeared. The reports were that they were swallowed up by a spatial crack. We can only assume that the same happened everywhere else."

"Then what do we do?"

"We wait, for now, I don't believe that Jian Zihao will start massacring his own people."

***

Meanwhile, back in the Philippines.

"Lord Luna, the preparations are ready."

"Commence!"

While parts of the world were struggling, Luna was currently commencing the take over of the Negros Island. The Mage Corps in conjunction with the rest of the Infantry began taking over territory by territory.

The Titans who would drop 1,000,000 VIS on death, and random equipment, some of which had green text, indicating it was <Uncommon>, valuable to regular soldiers, but couldn't quite pique Luna's curiosity. At this point, personal strength was more important for him, if it wasn't something that was at least <Rare> he would only give it a glance. Thanks to <Bathala's Primordial Flame> he had quickly risen up to rank 3 in his mastery of the Anito of Fire, and thus, he was more focused on reaching rank 4.

For the next month, the <Sovereign Nation> was fully focused on occupying the whole island. With their numbers, it was only a matter of time. Everything except for the area around Mt. Kanlaon was occupied. Luna had intended for this area's Mutant Beasts to continue breeding for his Beast army, courtesy of Maxene and as a training ground for his troops as well.

Mutant Beasts were definitely not to be underestimated. Sura had shared stories about them before, where a Mutant Beast, after reaching the status of a Rank 10 and officially becoming a Demi-God, they would gain the ability to take humanoid form and the speak like a regular person. The main difference, however, was that even in humanoid form, they would still retain some of their features. For example, a Lion or Lion-hybrid would still retain his mane and fur on most or some of its body, differing from each individual.

This way, even if they were to just stay on this island, there would always be a place to train and hunt for food. This was possible due to the Negros Island being a relatively huge island, boasting a land area of 13,309.60 km² even more so now with the landmass that the Elves were riding on had connected with the island.

The coastal defense was all around, covered by two layers of walls. The first one was called "Wall Primera" while the inner layer was called "Wall Segunda." *

With the island secured, Luna could finally start thinking about whether he wanted to expand to the South, East, or the northern islands.

During this time, if they weren't out hunting, Sura or Luna would continue their comprehension of the Anito of Fire. Maxene would as well, but she was too focused on looking for more beasts to tame.

During this time, Emergency Food, World Destroyer, Spot, and Angry Bakunawa had grown quite large. Angry Bakunawa who was born later than the three had actually exceeded them in size. His current length was equivalent to three Ceres** buses combined.

Emergency Food and Angry Bakunawa would make for excellent modes of transportation. Especially Angry Bakunawa who actually had the innate gift of space comprehension. The reason why he was named as the "Moon Eater" in the legends, wasn't because he literally can swallow the moon, but it was more because he had a separate dimension within his body.

This meant that besides riding on top of him, one can actually be inside the pocket dimension during travel. Maxene was able to bring the furniture inside and make the place more relaxing. Of course, this meant that she gave Bakunawa explicit instructions not to swallow anything into the pocket dimension. An added effect being that this place was perfect to comprehend the Anito of Space, albeit, as Space goes, it was much harder to comprehend, since one wouldn't know where to begin with.

"Luna bro! Are you busy?"

"Boni? No. Why what's up?"

"We just got some guys who claim that they came from Bohol. They seem really distressed, something about incredibly muscular Tarsiers*** running rampant all over the island."

"Huh? Tarsiers? Hold on, I'll be right there."

Luna couldn't help but have trouble associating Tarsiers, those incredibly shy and tiny creatures, to be called "muscular," let alone go on a rampage. Then again, with the new world, anything was possible. Not worrying about it too much, Luna stepped out of his home and headed towards the East wall, where the bridge connected to Cebu, which was in the middle of Negros and Bohol, was located.