When Befu arrived in the Honeycomb Star Territory, Rogge and the others, far away in the Silver Soul World, had nearly finished their negotiations with Silver Knight.
The smoothness of Rogge and the others' operation had somewhat exceeded the expectations of Wizard Civilization's upper echelon.
However, after gaining the friendship of the Silver Soul World and thoroughly bringing it aboard their war chariot, Wizard Civilization's upper echelon could not help but begin considering how to make deeper use of the Silver Soul World.
Though "use" was not quite the right word. "Mutual benefit" might have been more fitting.
Silver Knight of the Silver Soul World had voluntarily set aside the hatred born of the Magic Tide War and chosen to accept Evil Tide resource compensation worth trillions of Magic Coins. It was not that the Silver Soul World was magnanimous, but that circumstances had forced it to do so.
The top-level Death Element civilization, the Silver Soul World, had only just concluded a Civilization War that had lasted ten thousand years. Since the Silver Soul World had always borne the brunt of the Evil Tide's war efforts in that star territory alone, it had suffered truly grievous losses.
Such colossal losses could not be made up by the meager material aid previously provided to the Silver Soul World by Wizard Civilization and the Demon Subjugation Alliance.
Wizard Civilization was somewhat better off. Since establishing a stable strategic partnership with the Silver Soul World, it had continuously sent resources, legions, and even Dominator-class powerhouses to reinforce the Silver Soul World.
But the top-level civilizations of the Demon Subjugation Alliance were playing clever games. Aside from providing the Silver Soul World with a fairly considerable batch of material aid when they had first brought it into the Demon Subjugation Alliance—
Later on,