Beyond restraint

Beyond restraint

Countless valiant warriors activated their civilizations' finest weapons, frantically annihilating, destroying, and disrupting the Solitary One's enormous energy body.

The Solitary One only counterattacked occasionally, focusing primarily on defense. Most of his attention was devoted to devouring Nai Di.

The armies summoned by the Faction Lords were ultimately only a small force, incapable of shaking the Solitary One's foundations.

Civilization Lords like the Lord of the Golden Crow, Rui Ji, and Star Tyrant, who could enter court armed, were still a minority. Many were purely political figures who relied on their civilizations' powerful soldiers for protection.

Their hearts sank when they saw the Solitary One devouring Nai Di. They feared that the times were about to change.

The Solitary One was ill-tempered, domineering, and arrogant. His "solitude" was not the desolate solitude of helplessness, but the solitude of looking down upon all living beings.

Previously, the Heavenly Heart Civilization could still keep him in check, and an alliance of several civilizations could make him wary.

But if he entered the Unified Force Era, he would have no rivals left in the Milky Way. Given his temperament, he was highly likely to launch a great war and unite the galaxy.

Would the Star Alliance's order still exist then? Would other powerful civilizations also break their agreements and start competing to annex others, plunging the galaxy straight into a Warring States Era? What would the lower- and middle-tier civilizations do? Already weak, even in the Star Alliance's peaceful era they were reduced to pawns in the great civilizations' games, regularly bullied by powerful factions or plundered by pirates, and economically exploited at every turn.

In an age of war, even survival would become a problem.

Weakness itself was a crime! Most of the Milky Way's three thousand civilizations were in