A few hours after Nova gave his official order of beginning the Conquest of the Neutral Continent, millions of troops could be seen leaving the three bases.
Glory of Apex, Death Cult and Military Faction, all of them already gave orders to those cities under them to send their troops to unaffiliated cities and ask them to surrender.
The Neutral Continent was in total chaos, not even knowing why this madness started, some cities surrendered quickly , while others choose to fight back.
It was to be expected, as the four Factions, now three remaining, were the strongest, but this didn't mean that there weren't other who could contend with them.
Otherwise, how could the Neutral Continent remain a lawless place for so long?
The answer was simple, there were other Universe Stages not willing to lower their heads. So they, while not forming a Faction, sometimes allied themselves to resist the four 'villains'.