Actually, ever since that battle against the Black Mang Empire, the most innocent party had been the Teli Empire.
From the perspective of a civilization's ruler, every decision they had made had been absolutely correct.
They had first used the Black Mang Empire's destruction of the Fault Channel as a pretext, swiftly rallied nine lesser civilizations, formed a coalition force of thirty-seven legions, and charged toward the Black Mang Empire's homeland with murderous intent.
Then, when the Black Mang Empire closed itself off and announced that the Tailo Empire had acquired the technology to destroy the Fault Channel, the Teli Empire seized the opportunity again. It brought in the Hiltek Empire and dozens of God-tier Civilizations to jointly pressure the Tailo Empire, ultimately creating a situation where every civilization united to crusade against it.
Originally—
This had been an excellent move.
It could have allowed the Teli Empire to reap enormous benefits in the end.
But unfortunately, eight idiots who could accomplish nothing and ruin everything had appeared.
The Tailo Empire's former lackeys had been turned by the Teli Empire and joined in the campaign against the Tailo Empire.
In the Black Radiance Universe, they had twenty-four legions, while the Tailo Empire had only seven and a half.
No matter how one looked at it, victory should have been guaranteed. Even if all twenty-four were inferior regional legions, how could they possibly lose with such a numerical advantage?
But what happened instead?
Those eight idiots had somehow turned twenty-four legions being utterly defeated by seven and a half legions into reality.
Most crucially, after wiping out the twenty-four legions of those eight idiots, the other side had lost less than even a single legion.
The Teli Empire had been left speechless.
Fortunately, the thirty-seven legions led by Marquis were not