The Radiant Sun Lord had left! Even Nightmare was unsure what major moves he would make after leaving.
Yet Nightmare held a heartfelt appreciation for a hegemon who had been deadlocked with him for thousands of years without ever falling behind.
Even though Nightmare and the Radiant Sun Lord had taken fundamentally different paths, it was still so.
It was like how great fiends steeped in evil sometimes could not help but admire and respect chivalrous heroes who punished evil and upheld justice!
Charm was something that often recognized neither faction nor species, nor did it distinguish between friend and foe! "Hehe, but I still think the Radiant Sun Lord may not be able to settle this expanded system. The Earth Wolf Master, the Jupiter Queen, the Shadow Demon of the Black Alliance—even the weakest, the Shadow Demon, has nearly half the manpower of the Sunspot Tribe Fifth Lineage backing it. Let alone Peak Celestial Venerables, there are even two Absolute Peak Celestial Venerables among them. And the Shadow Demon carries Black Fifth Heavenly Lord's soul tether."
Thinking of this, Nightmare put himself in the other's shoes. In the end, he shook his head. "The momentum of the three sides has already taken shape. Difficult, truly difficult."
Thus, in his eyes, even if the Radiant Sun Lord could win, it would likely be a pyrrhic victory, incapable of disrupting his grand plans.
With that mindset, Nightmare reconstructed the illusory starry sky, settled there, and began quietly digesting the Sunspot War Emperor he had just devoured.
A Myriad Shadow Celestial Body at the late stage of the Celestial Realm Ninth Heaven was an enormous tonic for him.
It might not raise his realm, but it could at least consolidate the small step he had taken not long ago.
Nightmare and the