What the Commander had said.
Hood had no way to refute it either.
Because, based on Hood's understanding of the Fadop Civilization,
it truly made perfect sense.
Normally speaking, at such a life-or-death critical juncture, a group of people who had once stood at the pinnacle turning on each other over some trivial scraps?
Just hearing it sounded, more or less, like something that would make people laugh their teeth out.
As though they had completely lost their minds and were spouting utter nonsense.
Even if it had only been a small-scale conflict.
Given the technology and average caliber possessed by each civilization, they truly should not have done something so low...
Watching Hood's expression change,
the Commander slowly rose from his seat and walked to the middle of the room. Through the projection screen, he gazed at the utterly chaotic high-dimensional energies outside and sighed:
"You understand now, don't you..."
"All the unreasonable things that existed in our past..."
"Clearly, we have done our utmost to manage our compatriots, yet no matter what, problems still keep arising—in circumstances that seem reasonable, yet are not entirely reasonable."
"Many times, even we cannot say whether those conflicts were truly accidents..."
"And aside from that incident, the alliance we formed has actually experienced many similar events."
"It is only that the civilizations drawn into them were not the Fadop Civilization, so you had never heard much about them..."
After he finished speaking,
Hood asked with an ugly expression:
"Were all these influences brought about by the Calamity of the Future?"
The Commander stared at the scene on the screen and answered without turning his head:
"That is right."
Then he explained:
"According to our experiments, we discovered that the power of the Calamity of the Future carries a special influence."
"We call