While the Gith Empire was flourishing.
The Mind Flayer Empire had no intention of simply waiting to die either.
As the world's long-established overlord.
If they had been overthrown by others after their strength had declined.
Then perhaps they would have found it easier to accept.
But while they were clearly still at the height of their power, with tremendous room for future growth.
To be overthrown by the Gith, who should have been making a desperate last stand, and that so-called Bloody King...
It was truly a little too much for them to accept!
Thus, finding a way to eliminate the Slaughterer of All Beings and the God-Bestowed Scroll had become an urgent matter that many of the Mind Flayer Empire's higher-ups needed to resolve.
By this day.
After repeated struggles.
They had all come to deeply understand that the former represented the Gith Empire's overwhelming military force for suppressing all dissent, while the latter represented the foundation that allowed the Gith Empire to endlessly generate technology and knowledge, catching up to the Mind Flayer Empire's many years of development.
They were two different extremes, one literary and one martial.
After perfectly complementing each other, they directly allowed the underpowered Gith Empire to achieve comprehensive replenishment and development.
Therefore.
With sufficient resources.
As time passed, the other side's strength was growing more powerful in every respect.
Like a grand architectural complex whose gaps had been filled!
This also meant that the longer things dragged on, the lower their own odds of victory became!
At this moment.
At the Center of the World.
Within that magnificent city, like some colossal beast crouching upon a vast plain that connected in all directions.
Inside a splendid and enormous palace.
The Mind Flayer King, whose body resembled an enormous exposed brain, had only