A full month had passed since the Ten-dimensional Beings last invaded the Obsidian Empire.
The expected wave of continuous, increasingly frequent invasions had not appeared.
However, Lin Yu had not let down his guard, because Lin Fan had told him that the combat strength of those One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts was nothing remarkable among Ten-dimensional Beings.
After all, Lin Hong had shown Lin Fan just how powerful those Ten-dimensional Beings that had lived for 13.8 billion years were. They were simply incomparable to the earlier ones.
Soon, another month passed, and still nothing happened. Some civilizations' leaders began pulling their usual stunts again, submitting applications under all sorts of bizarre pretexts to have their Peak Dark Energy Manipulators returned.
The Federation did not obstruct such requests in any way and simply let them go.
Seeing this, more civilizations followed suit, and in the end—
Over the course of that month, more than three hundred civilizations withdrew from the Rapid Response Command Center program.
Just as they were celebrating how accommodating the Federation had been—
Bazuka Supercluster, Hailan Empire Capital Sphere.
"Your Majesty, Lord Weidi and the others have returned. They are waiting outside the palace to request an audience."
"Good, let them in at once!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
As a technological civilization that had only just entered the super-tier, the Hailan Empire did not have many Peak Dark Energy Manipulators—only five in total. The most senior among them was Weidi, an elder of the Empire.
"Weidi, you've finally returned. Without you here, the analysis of the Black Cavity data has slowed down considerably!"
Pius was delighted as he watched the five of them enter.
Even without Peak Dark Energy Manipulators, scientists could still analyze Black Cavity data. But with Peak-level Dark Energy Users assisting them, the speed of analysis could increase