After successfully eliminating the five Space Creatures, the Star Sea Grand Alliance realized that its reinforcements had arrived too late—and that it no longer had the strength to send any more. In the war against the Space Creatures, it had lost over forty million Star-Class Warships.
Although the Space Zerg were not particularly intelligent, their combat power and specialized reproductive abilities were extremely formidable. The Star Sea Grand Alliance had been lucky that this swarm had not continued evolving many Space Creature Mother Bodies during the war. Otherwise, they would have had no choice but to flee in the end.
Even so, they had still underestimated the situation.
The Star Sea Grand Alliance had thought it could reap benefits from both sides. Instead, the fleet pursuing the Daya Civilization was defeated, while the fleet fighting the Space Zerg suffered devastating losses. For the time being, it was also unable to travel across Galactic arms.
On top of that, wars across spiral arms were fraught with danger and immense risk.
In the end, the Star Sea Grand Alliance headquarters chose the safer option: preserve its current gains first and study the Space Creature corpses later.
However, neither Humanity nor the Daya Civilization knew any of this. After accomplishing the feat of destroying the Star Sea Grand Alliance fleet, both sides immediately headed for the black hole. They first replenished their warship fuel there until they had enough for cross-arm travel, then returned to the battlefield to begin cleanup operations.
The war had long since fallen silent—utterly silent. The crisscrossing beams from the clash of tens of millions of warships had become a thing of the past. Those lights had already traveled several light-years away. Perhaps some civilizations would detect them years later, but for now, the war's Event Light Cone certainly