Lord of Ashes
Chapter 46

Two Major Power Blocs

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Saine, having arrived at Howling Stone World, continued to fully activate the Faceless Mask he wore.

This time, Saine activated it with even greater force.

Even an existence of Elf God Elune's caliber would now find it difficult to detect Saine's whereabouts.

Only keenly perceptive Wizard Civilization powerhouses such as Lisa, Carell, and Douglas might perhaps notice traces of his aura.

Flying past the Ghost Crow King, who was still showing off and cawing "caw caw caw," Saine found himself somewhat speechless at this living treasure.

When he arrived beside Befu, Lisa, and the others, Saine noticed that they were discussing some of the upcoming battles against the Demon Subjugation Alliance.

The Wizard Civilization was about to issue a declaration of war against the Demon Subjugation Alliance. Within the Wizard Alliance, this was no longer any secret.

The Seven Directions Conglomerate led by the Wizard Civilization was bound to fight the Demon Subjugation Alliance sooner or later!

The overwhelming majority of Wizard Civilization powerhouses greeted the coming war against the Demon Subjugation Alliance with an active, excited, and proactive attitude.

As a result, before the Alliance Assembly had even begun, many well-informed foreign powerhouses of the Wizard Alliance present were already whispering among themselves about the great war that might soon erupt.

What Befu, Lisa, and the others were discussing now was, in fact, a small indication of the direction deliberately leaked before the Alliance Assembly began.

How could a "former Civilization Leader" like Befu speak carelessly?

Every word she spoke carried deeper meaning.

Lisa, on the other hand, now spoke purely through strength!

The Zerg led by Lisa truly counted as the strongest Member Plane in the Wizard Alliance at present.

Perhaps the Light Dimension Country, with its Half-Level-9 combat power, was also exceptionally eye-catching at this Alliance Assembly. But bolstered by several Civilization Supreme Treasures, Lisa's personal combat power was in no way inferior to Di'ersi Jia's!

More importantly, the resources enjoyed by the Zerg, as well as the Dominator-class beings currently developing and transforming among them, outnumbered the Light Giants of the Light Dimension Country!

In particular, the greatest spoils of war obtained by the Zerg led by Lisa had not been the resources plundered from the Flowing Light Retrospective World, but the enormous Inert Energy Crystal veins looted from Decay Time-Space!

And strictly speaking, Lisa had looted Inert Crystals from two Decay Time-Spaces!

The other batch of gains from 13 million years ago had been acquired for Lisa by Saine and the father-son pair of Nasi Xiu.

The abundant spoils of war had allowed the Zerg under Lisa's leadership to become truly wealthy!

The successive births of Zerg Dominators in recent years were merely one manifestation. On the other hand, the scale of the Zerg swarms had also grown vastly greater than before!

Because the total quantity of Inert Crystals obtained was simply too immense, the Zerg currently had no need to worry about "sustainable development" at all.

Unlimited troop production! That was what the Zerg had been doing for the past several thousand years!

With the approval of Saine and Befu, the Zerg were the only Alliance member permitted to develop without any restrictions!

The Titan God Race was not restricted either. But given their development model, those Titan Giants found it difficult to produce troops as frantically as the Zerg.

Still, the Staff of the Gods that Saine had recently gifted to the current Titan God-King might well propel the Titan God Race into a new era of rapid development and transformation.

The potential of the Titan Giants... was actually quite considerable.

Saine's sudden appearance did not disturb Befu, Lisa, and the others, who were engaged in a low-key exchange.

In truth, no matter how low-key Befu and Lisa appeared, from the moment they entered Howling Stone World, they had been the most eye-catching figures present.

Countless foreign powerhouses of the Alliance wanted to approach and speak with these two great beings, yet could not.

There was no shortage among them of Dominator-class beings.

As for the "Black Robe Magician" who had suddenly appeared beside Befu and Lisa, the vast majority of Wizard Alliance powerhouses did not immediately recognize that this aura-concealing existence was Saine, the Civilization Leader of the Wizard Civilization.

Only Elune, Nair Wen Yinke, and other beings who had met Saine just a few hundred years ago raised their brows.

But since Saine had not made a public, flamboyant appearance, these experienced Alliance Overgods did not take the initiative to expose his identity.

"What are you discussing?" Saine asked curiously after arriving at Lisa's side.

Befu looked at Saine naturally and said, "Once war breaks out between us and the Demon Subjugation Alliance, perhaps we can have the Blue Fox Civilization make the first move, using that to prove their sincerity in wanting to join the Seven Directions Conglomerate."

"Oh?" Saine said.

"Recently, the Blue Fox Civilization has once again clashed with the Mad Beast Civilization. This time, even the Twisted Shadow Civilization has taken the opposing side."

"The situation of those Blue Fox Civilization creatures has become quite difficult lately."

"If our Wizard Civilization had not subtly conveyed some goodwill to them, the Blue Fox Civilization might have withdrawn from this feast of resource division targeting the Evil Tide Star Territory," Befu said.

At present, the Seven Directions Conglomerate led by the Wizard Civilization and the Immortal Domain, as well as the Demon Subjugation Alliance, had both grown ever more massive in scale.

And as the warlike clashes and friction between the two Top-Level Civilization blocs became increasingly fierce and apparent, it was becoming harder and harder for the small factions and scattered powerhouses wandering between the two major power blocs to survive.

That Star Realm Dominator Befu had mentioned earlier—the one who was always stirring up trouble between the two Top-Level Civilization blocs and was extremely slippery—had recently begun formally considering accepting the Kada Star Thief Group's offer to Pacify and Recruit him.

Times were hard!

Without finding an organization to rely on now, it truly would be difficult to continue developing.

Just look at the civilizations that had already entered the fray.

The Seven Directions Conglomerate had: the Wizard Civilization, the Immortal Domain, Silver Soul World, the Free Blade Civilization, the War God Peak Civilization, the Mani God System Civilization, and the Yan Emperor Divine Clan.

The Demon Subjugation Alliance currently had: the Nine Stars Civilization, the Capricorn Empire, Tianyu World, the Iron-Blood Civilization, White Cloud Flowing Tuo World, the Twisted Shadow Civilization, the Heavy Hammerer Civilization, the Void Civilization, the Mad Beast Civilization, and the Dead Realm Civilization.

Judging by the number of Top-Level Civilizations alone, the current ratio was 7:10.

The Seven Directions Conglomerate appeared to be at a slight disadvantage.

But in terms of cohesion, the Seven Directions Conglomerate was far more capable of fighting than the Demon Subjugation Alliance!

Moreover, the ones mentioned above were only the Top-Level Civilizations that had joined the two power blocs.

Beyond these Top-Level Civilizations, there were also quite a few Large Planes attached to the two major power blocs.

There was no need to say much about the Wizard Alliance on the Wizard Civilization's side.

In recent years, the Immortal Domain, the Free Blade Civilization, and the Mani God System Civilization had also drawn in and developed a group of Large World Civilizations as "little brothers." They were learning from the Wizard Civilization's advanced development system as well.

As for the Demon Subjugation Alliance, several Large World Civilizations such as the Xuan Tian Great World were also quite formidable. Old Man Xuan Tian himself even possessed Level-8 Peak strength.

With this as a foundation, judging solely by the number of Dominators, the scale of war between the Seven Directions Conglomerate and the Demon Subjugation Alliance might be even more unprecedented than the Dimensional Hegemony between the Magic Cube Civilization and the Decayed Civilization!

And those were only the civilization factions that had already entered the fray.

There were still other civilization factions that had yet to enter, remaining in a state of watchful observation!

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