The Shadow Merchant hurried away.
There was no helping it. The "Shadow Universe" was a superproject within its Ascendant civilization that used Ascendant technology. If something went wrong, the higher-ups in its faction would probably suffer too.
Not to mention that they had concealed this from everyone else and played fast and loose in the war between lower civilizations.
This was even more messed up!
The Ascendant higher-up who had once crossed paths with Gao Gong, on the other hand, watched this special civilization war with great interest.
"Fusion civilizations are real, and so are the legends about them. Expanding the boundaries of civilization? Worth recording."
The situation on the battlefield had already become completely one-sided.
And this kind of one-sidedness was not the sort where an army collapsed like a landslide. It was the sort where an Ascendant civilization viciously pummeled a group of Calamity civilizations.
The Calamity Legion and its Calamity units were still terrifying, abnormal, and powerful.
But when those Calamity powers landed on "Tier Four," they melted away like snow.
Moreover, once the fusion was complete, the truly powerful aspect was not limited to Tier Four unit technology. Many players specializing in rear-line support had already relied on the special properties of "biotechnology" to attempt mass production of Tier Four civilization technology, and even Tier Five civilization technology.
The latter was ultimately far too difficult.
But Tier Four civilization weapons were already as common as basic gear in their hands.
And the Nomad civilization's Tier Four civilization weapons were all "alive."
The curtain of the star sea was torn apart by an invisible force. The first to descend was the Gravity Whale—the giant beast that roamed the folds of higher dimensions. The instant it leaped into reality, it unleashed a gravitational tsunami in the middle