Rootstalk Grand Monarch froze for a moment. His expression turned extremely strange, and the streams of electronic viruses on his body flickered several times.
"You—"
"Are you fucking stupid?"
Who had wanted to activate Pulsar back then? He had been unable to stop it even when he wanted to.
And now, at this critical juncture, you wanted to stop just because you felt like it?!
Nebula Grand Monarch revealed a strange expression.
"Rootstalk, this is the advantage of our civilization. A loose collection of individuals, without organization, recognizing neither kin nor friend, pursuing benefits and avoiding harm."
"Even if every 'Grand Monarch' is killed by the enemy, as long as the 'Supreme Algorithm' continues iterating, it can continuously produce new Grand Monarchs."
"Isn't that far safer than risking having your Two-Phase Sphere Algorithm cracked and forcibly starting a civilizational war?"
"I also can't understand it. Back then, you forcibly stopped me and Layes, yet now you're trying to forcibly drive a civilizational war. If I remember correctly, you weren't the one suffering the algorithm's backlash, were you?"
"..."
The other party's logic did seem to make sense.
It was just—
"Where's Layes?"
"No idea. Before I suffered the algorithm's backlash, I seemed to see a pitch-black palm forcibly grabbing Layes's true body."
"So one of our superior Grand Monarchs was captured by the enemy, and you don't even have a reaction?!"
Rootstalk Grand Monarch once again felt that sense of incompatibility.
Nebula Grand Monarch looked even more surprised than he did.
"The moment she was captured by the enemy, the algorithm would strip her of her function. I thought you knew this basic fact?"
"..."
"Or did you think she would expose the secrets of our civilization? Don't forget, the 'Two-Phase Sphere Algorithm' is an encryption algorithm that even information