When their research hit a wall, the civilizations had gone to ask the Starry Sky Defenders as well. After all, he himself was powered by Vacuum Zero-Point Energy; maybe he knew something.
But the answer they received was disappointing.
The Starry Sky Defenders truly did power himself with Vacuum Zero-Point Energy, but that thing was basically a part of his body, like the mitochondria in a human body. Asking a person what the principle was behind the mitochondria in their body producing and transporting energy would most likely get this answer: I don't know either. I only know that after I eat, I have strength.
The Starry Sky Defenders actually wanted to help the Level Six Civilizations too, but he truly had no knowledge in this area. If possible, he was even willing to let the civilizations study the workings inside his own body, but unfortunately, not a single civilization had any way to do so.
The conditions inside the Starry Sky Defenders could not be seen even by the Third-Person Observation modes of Human Civilization and the Awakener Civilization, let alone the other civilizations.
The path of seeking help from the Starry Sky Defenders had been cut off as well.
Research progress had stalled, but time would not stop flowing.
The eighty-four civilizations continued their research while drifting inertially at near light speed. However many years passed, they drifted that many light-years forward, more or less always maintaining their distance from the expanding Cosmic Cataclysm zone behind them.
Like this, another seven hundred and fifty thousand years passed.
Counting the previous five hundred thousand years, the total time the eighty-four civilizations had spent conducting research here had already amounted to nearly one million years.
The Great Fleet had also gone from the edge of the central region of the