Before Saine and his party left the Metal Graveyard War Zone, two old friends he had met in the Capricorn Empire—Grand Duke Muridi and Marshal Adeka—came personally to see them off.
Grand Duke Muridi and the others clearly had no idea that Saine had just ruthlessly poached from under their noses.
It was also through these two Capricorn Empire higher-ups that Saine gained a relatively clear understanding of the current situation in the Metal Graveyard War Zone.
The fighting in the Metal Graveyard War Zone was now far less intense than it had been over a thousand years ago, when Saine and the others had been here.
Although the Half-Step Level-9 lifeform, the Star Wheel Demon Ancestor, had never left this war zone,
his performance on the Civilization Battlefield in recent years had undoubtedly become much more low-key.
Most of the time, it was still ordinary Level-7 and Level-8 Dominators fighting one-on-one.
Given the deterrent power of the Star Wheel Demon Ancestor, Star Radiance Envoy Oren of the Nine Stars Civilization had also never withdrawn to his mother civilization, instead remaining on the Capricorn Empire's side.
This was also one of the Evil Tide Civilization's greatest advantages at present: whatever it did, it held an extremely high degree of initiative.
By contrast, the other civilizations could only passively respond to the Evil Tide's offensives, rarely finding opportunities to launch attacks of their own.
The Capricorn Empire also roughly knew that a great war had erupted on the Wizard Civilization's side.
Grand Duke Muridi and Marshal Adeka's initiative in seeing him off also had a certain purpose behind it. They hoped to reach some degree of strategic cooperation with the Wizard Civilization.
—Wherever there was war, there was profit!
Those were the words once spoken by one of the Capricorn Empire's