Any civilization that reached Level Six Civilization had a cruising speed of 213.75 times the speed of light. The Milky Way Galaxy was indeed vast and boundless, but a few hundred years was enough for them to reach any location within it.
The coordinates mentioned in the Divine Matrix Civilization's broadcast were not a precise point, but an entire star region located at the end of the Southern Cross Arm.
From the end of the Southern Cross Arm toward the center of the Milky Way Galaxy lay the middle section of the Perseus Arm, roughly seventy thousand light-years from the Solar System.
While humanity and the Daya Civilization had been focused on their development, the Divine Matrix Civilization's Neutron War Star had already reached the Southern Cross Arm. They designated it as the battlefield and broadcast the news across the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
After completing the broadcast, the Divine Matrix Civilization waited in the Southern Cross Arm. But they were not simply waiting around doing nothing; while they waited, they also deployed detection stations throughout that stretch of space.
These were Gravity Anchor Points developed using their Characteristic Technology, intended to detect fleets entering this star region.
The Milky Way Galaxy had not been this lively in tens of millions of years.
The broadcast was like a massive boulder crashing into a great river, drawing fleet after fleet from all corners of the Milky Way Galaxy toward the end of the Southern Cross Arm.
These fleets came from various civilizations, but not one was a main fleet. There were not even many Main Battleships among them. Their purpose in coming was singular: to investigate the Divine Matrix Civilization's true strength and, incidentally, observe the coming war between the Divine Matrix Civilization and the Harvesters.
Yet when they reached the