"Let me remind everyone of one more thing. During the second round of expansion, every member that has reached God-tier Civilization status must provide at least three legions!"
"Otherwise, they will be deemed ineligible to share in the benefits after the expansion!"
Well, Lin Zhen had just driven the knife in even deeper.
To buy more universes, these people had been bidding more fiercely than the next just moments ago.
Yet now, every one of them wore a miserable expression.
In truth, it was not as though they could not manage it. Even if, for the next hundred years, these civilizations would basically have to contribute half their income to the Federation.
After obtaining the universes of the two Black Hole Cavity Realms, which one of them did not now control dozens, or even hundreds, of universes?
So, although their annual resource income would basically be cut in half, they could still raise three legions.
They would just have to tighten their belts for a while.
As Lin Zhen put it...
Who told these people to stop striving for progress and settle into comfortable lives after joining the Alliance?
The Federation's protection was not provided for free.
While enjoying that protection, they also had to contribute to the Alliance!
Was it reasonable to form only one legion meeting Alliance technical standards every few hundred years?
Therefore, this distribution conference was also meant to sound a warning bell for them. The price of their complacency was that, after expansion, they would have to pay a greater price to obtain benefits—or perhaps receive no benefits at all.
Sometimes, people would not work hard unless they were pushed.
In short, this benefit distribution conference left some delighted and others distraught.
Among them, the happiest was undoubtedly the Tailo Empire.
It had transformed from