Hightins was busy igniting a civil war when Colonizers from various nations, unable to resist, began to flock to the northern rainforests of Hundred Beasts Paradise on the Southern Continent.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!...
The roar of gunfire and the din of battle shook the heavens.
"Quick, Beast Tamers, command your Flying Tamed Beasts to deploy the Earth Vein Sealing Bolts!"
"Artillery units, bombard the ground! Open fire!"
"Strike up the military band! Musketeer Corps, press forward! Three-rank volley fire!"
"Order of Knights, watch out for Transcendents among the natives! Keep a tight rein on your Demon Monster mounts—anyone daring to break ranks and disrupt our formation will be stripped of their right to battle spoils..."
A month and a half had passed since Pirate King [Ocean Throne] Barbarossa Hailidin spearheaded the first colonial war.
The riches of the Centaur Archipelago evidently could no longer satisfy the greed of the Colonizers.
