The Door Opens

But once this kind of deception stopped working, all pretense would be torn away, and war could break out at any moment. If it could be avoided, Humanity naturally did not want to fight.

The biggest problem now was that Humanity itself did not know how to use the key in its possession. That small rhomboid key was currently aboard the Lyra, yet just as it had been for all these years, it lay quietly in Humanity's Collection Box like an ordinary rhomboid crystal, showing no reaction whatsoever.

From its appearance, it was just an ordinary rhomboid crystal. There were no operable features such as buttons, nor did it display any sort of virtual screen.

Therefore, if Humanity claimed to have a way to enter the Small Universe, only for nothing to happen when the Lyra arrived, that would be awkward. At that point, the Dynamic Image Civilization would certainly believe Humanity was playing them or did not want to open the Small Universe in front of them, intending to keep it all for itself.

If that happened, war would inevitably break out.

Compared to other civilizations, the Dynamic Image Civilization was considered relatively friendly. At the very least, it was not the sort of civilization that held direct hostility toward Alien Civilizations. After all, trade was its primary occupation. But that did not mean it was particularly kind.

Driven by profit, they could become hungry wolves all the same.

Their previous peaceful trade with Humanity and the Orange Star Civilization had only been because that free Life Planet alone could be exchanged for vast amounts of precious Biosphere Resources from Humanity and the Orange Star Civilization.

Whether those Biosphere Resources were bred for research or cultivated and later sold to other civilizations, the profits would be guaranteed. In this