Perhaps Lobster Dominator had chosen to join the Demon Subjugation Alliance in the beginning solely for the trade route the other side had promised.
Lobster Dominator might not even have been able to represent Ink Sea World.
After all, Ink Sea World had an Ink Sea Master stronger than it and possessed of greater authority.
Nine Stars Civilization might have known about this back then as well.
Yet in their external proclamations, they had eagerly announced that Ink Sea World had also joined the Demon Subjugation Alliance, likewise in order to "build momentum" and urge World Civilizations such as Wizard Civilization, Alien Civilization, and Iron-Blood Civilization, which had still been wavering at the time, to join as soon as possible.
Everyone was merely living for their own interests.
In this process, the only somewhat innocent parties were Ink Sea Master itself and the neighboring Silver Soul World.
They clearly had not wanted to rashly go to war with a powerful enemy like Evil Tide Civilization.
But then again, so long as Evil Tide Civilization continued expanding and its pace of demonizing the Star Realm did not stop, every civilization in the entire Star Realm would become its enemy.
It was merely a matter of sooner or later.
Not encountering them now did not mean they would not encounter them in the future.
What was more, strictly speaking, Ink Sea World and Silver Soul World were in the same star region as Wizard Civilization.
With Minghe Empire, the "eldest brother" of this star region, already on the verge of collapse, where could Silver Soul World and Ink Sea World hide in the future?
They could not possibly abandon their own Home Starfields outright!
Lobster Dominator's curses and complaints drew a glance from Ink Sea Master.
Ink Sea Master was far more