This group of Ascended beings who had cast their gazes downward reflected on the matter once more.
Then they decided that they had done nothing wrong. It was the Carbon-Based Civilization, the Nomad Civilization, and the Disaster Alliance. At most, there had recently been a civil war between the two Great Khans.
But since it was a civil war, there was no way it could possibly be connected to the mechanical faction.
"Mm, has it started? They're not wasting any time."
At some point, the Shadow Merchant appeared once again. This time, however, several more shadows had appeared around it.
They were all "Shadow Merchants" similar to it—the shadows of other Ascended powerhouses.
At the same time, the Ascended higher-up who possessed a body of perfect rationality was also among the onlookers.
However, their gaze was not fixed on the light of ascension, but on the "fellow travelers" around them.
They knew very well that under normal ascension procedures, these Ascended civilizations would not interfere—and would not dare to.
But once the ascension breakthrough was complete, that would be the moment when the newly ascended civilization was at both its strongest and its weakest.
Other Ascended civilizations might not necessarily refrain from intervening.
After all, wars between civilizations of the same level did not fall within the restrictions of the Civilization Council.
This was an opportunity!
At that thought, the Ascended higher-up's figure transformed into countless "digital structures" and vanished from the material world once more.
Compared to the commotion caused by the Nomad Civilization's ascension, the disturbance on the Mechanist Civilization's side was far greater.
There was only one reason: a mechanical megastructure stood there.
As the light of ascension spread, the entire megastructure gradually revealed its form.
The first thing to "light up" was not the