"Heh. As we recall, certain civilizations weren't saying that before. Did seeing our new friends make you lose your nerve?" said the side with the larger fleet.
The side with fewer ships said, "New friends? Heh-heh. Who knows whose new friends they are? Ah, new friends, look at this civilization. They're stubborn beyond saving, with no thought at all for the future of the universe. Keeping a civilization like this around is just a waste of cosmic resources. As a responsible civilization that has already begun the Great Voyage, you must agree with our ideals as well. Oh, I forgot to introduce ourselves. Please call us the Pudolad Civilization."
The "new friends" in their conversation referred to the Silver Heart Civilization. After all, aside from the two sides on the battlefield, the Silver Heart Civilization was the only third party present.
Pudolad—this was the transliterated name humanity had derived from the version translated by the Silver Heart Civilization.
Clearly, the Pudolad Civilization was the extraterritorial civilization mentioned by the other civilization. But in truth, after the Silver Heart Civilization claimed to have been discovered by them, it had only said that it was called the Silver Heart Civilization and had never revealed any information about coming from an extragalactic Great Voyage.
So for Pudolad to say this, they were either bluffing the Silver Heart Civilization or bluffing the Keluoxing Civilization.
The Keluoxing Civilization was the civilization with the larger fleet whose Small Universe had nevertheless been targeted. If the Pudolad Civilization was telling the truth, then the Keluoxing Civilization should be a native civilization.
The Keluoxing Civilization said, "The Houqi Galaxy is vast beyond measure, and the powerful civilizations within the Shadow Alliance are countless. you extraterritorial civilizations refuse to follow the rules, and sooner or later, the Shadow Alliance