The Clever Temelo

The Galaxy Battle Tournament was the one competition, entertainment event, and cultural exchange shared by every civilization in the Milky Way.

Once every ten years, delegations from the major civilizations gathered in the Galaxy Five Capitals to fight for their civilizations' glory.

It was a contest for prestige, but also a way to win tangible benefits for their civilizations.

Wormholes, stars, antimatter, top-tier mechanical materials, and biological materials could all be obtained here.

Any civilization that won an honor earned the chance to enter Freedom City, where they could trade with one another freely and on equal terms.

It was practically an official black market, established to give lesser civilizations a chance. For many of them, it was almost the only way to obtain resources from advanced civilizations.

At other times, merchants from advanced civilizations would take cheap equipment readily available at home and dump it on lesser civilizations at exorbitant prices.

A Vacuum Cut that cost an advanced civilization just five Lang could be resold for fifty thousand Lang in some backward regions. This kind of disguised plunder was far more profitable than outright war.

To break free of that stranglehold, lesser civilizations had to grow stronger themselves or place in the top twenty of an event at this Great Assembly.

As the event drew closer, promotion kicked into high gear. Nearly the entire Milky Way was talking about it.

Then Ziwei raised the stakes with even greater rewards.

Besides promising to sell Unified Force equipment in Freedom City, it would give Unified Particles to civilizations that won honors.

Some civilizations did not even know what Unified Particles were. But when they learned that a major civilization had offered one trillion Lang for a single gram, small and medium-sized civilizations across the Milky Way erupted with excitement.

Their technology