Karl's Second Round of Bluffing

"Impossible! How could it not be there?"

"Clearly, the high-energy reaction detected by the Great Clock earlier was at these exact coordinates! The Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization has to be here!"

"They must be using some special technology to completely conceal their civilization!"

"Otherwise, there's no way we'd see nothing at all!"

Even though the facts were laid out before him, Death God Karl still refused to accept it.

In his mind, the high-level energy fluctuation detected by the Great Clock back then had to be the result of the Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization using rewards from the Ranking System!

Otherwise, even if a hundred supernovae exploded simultaneously, they couldn't produce such a massive energy fluctuation!

Only rewards from the Ranking System could cause an energy fluctuation of that magnitude!

After muttering a few words to himself, Death God Karl once again connected to the "Alliance" communication channel and the "Top Civilization Alliance" communication channel.

Death God Karl didn't care about resources, but he did care about his reputation!

Because if he failed to give everyone a reasonable explanation this time, it would become extremely difficult for him to rally civilizations from across the universe in the future!

So, to ensure that others would still form an alliance with him again to oppose the Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization, he had to pacify all the civilizations within this alliance through promises of benefits or verbal persuasion!

Otherwise, if even a single civilization wasn't appeased, his authority across the entire universe would take a significant hit!

Although his reputation wasn't great before the Ranking System appeared, that was only because the theories he studied were unacceptable to most ordinary civilizations.

His personal authority was still considerable; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to organize so many people with just a few words and a piece of data.

In Death God Karl's own words, academic disapproval and social matters were two completely different things!

In the "Alliance" communication channel.

"Main Gods and representatives of all civilizations, please calm down for a moment!"

"I just used the Great Clock to re-evaluate the entire Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization!"

"And even after the re-evaluation, this location remains the most likely place for the Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization to be!"

As soon as he connected to the "Alliance" channel composed of these Secondary Civilizations, Death God Karl eagerly began his explanation.

In truth, Karl wasn't a showy person. Under other circumstances, even if he had made a mistake, he wouldn't have been so quick to offer an explanation!

But the situation was different now. Faced with this, Karl had to seize the initiative!

Because only by doing so could Karl firmly hold the upper hand in the conversation.

As Karl's voice rang out across the entire "Alliance" channel, the already noisy channel grew even more chaotic!

[Bearman Civilization's Main God: "Death God Karl, if this is the extent of your explanation, then I'm afraid I can't accept it!"]

[Giant Civilization's Main God: "The Bearman Civilization is right! Do you have any idea how much I sacrificed for this campaign? If your explanation is only this much, the Giant Civilization won't take it lying down!"]

[Dwarf Civilization's Main God: "Exactly! If you, Karl, hadn't sworn you'd found the Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization's location, would we have so easily agreed to join your alliance?"]

[Colored People Civilization's Main God: "Stop with the useless nonsense! Death God Karl, just tell us directly—how do you plan to resolve this? Because if you don't handle this properly, hmph~!"]

Listening to the condemnations from the "Alliance" channel, Death God Karl, standing within the Death Academy, nodded almost imperceptibly.

These civilizations reacting this way was all part of Karl's plan!

As long as these Secondary Civilization Main Gods still had demands for benefits, resolving this matter would be exceptionally simple for Karl!

If these Secondary Civilization Main Gods had no demands for benefits at all, that would be the real problem for Death God Karl!

With that thought, Karl pondered for a moment before speaking again in the "Alliance" channel, laying out his solution to the issue.

"I understand your frustrations. On this matter, it is indeed my fault."

"So I've decided to compensate you Secondary Civilizations for the resources you've lost."

"Soon, I will use the Great Clock to return all the resources I'm compensating you with."

"That way, after receiving my resources, it'll be as if you've lost nothing—just consider it a trip to the edge of the Known Universe."

"And between us, there will be no further entanglements!"

"However... I have another option here. Would you like to hear it?"

At this point, Death God Karl deliberately paused his voice, whetting the appetites of these Secondary Civilizations.

He had no choice; if he didn't do this, he estimated he'd have to spend a considerable amount of resources on these four Secondary Civilizations!

[Bearman Civilization's Main God: "What option? Spit it out first!"]

[Giant Civilization's Main God: "Yeah! Tell us first, and we'll see if your other plan is reasonable and whether we can accept it!"]

This time, only the Bearman Civilization and the Giant Civilization spoke; the other two Main Gods didn't make a sound.

But for Death God Karl, having these two civilizations speak was enough!

Because he was utterly confident in his next plan.

As long as he laid out the next plan, these four Secondary Civilization Main Gods would ultimately choose it without hesitation!

With that absolute confidence, Death God Karl slowly spoke across the entire "Alliance" channel: "According to my investigation, this location is indeed where the Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization resides."

"But the reason we don't see them here is entirely because they possess an advanced shielding technology!"

"If we can crack this advanced shielding technology, then we'll see the true Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization!"

"So my other option is this: I'll first send you all back to your respective civilizations from this location. Then, in the next campaign against the Cyber Heavenly Court Civilization, I'll give priority to your four civilizations!"

"Not only that, but after the campaign ends, I'll reimburse all the resources you expended for both expeditions!"