Accumulation Is a Burden

Accumulation over countless years meant various precious resources and sources of support, but in a certain sense, it was also a kind of encumbrance and burden.

The End Empire's excessively vast territory, resources, population... made efficient operation a genuine difficulty much of the time.

Just as the fat on Fatty's body possessed real value from various perspectives, in practice, it was often viewed only as something negative...

Even with superluminal communication and even more efficient methods of contact whose effects could easily cross space and time, communication between different regions still took who knew how many years.

Therefore.

Even though the End Emperor, as the Supreme Ruler, had approved Hector Colon's proposal and granted him the authority to act against certain people on His Majesty's behalf, for such a colossal power, the End Empire still needed a great deal of time to become fully active and formally adopt a wartime attitude in preparation for the coming great war...

Putting everything else aside.

It would take everyone some time and preparation just to spread the orders. It was by no means something that could be settled in a few words...

It was like how, after a human brain successfully issued an order, every part of the body still needed some time to receive the various signals transmitted by the brain.

For a colossus, one constructed from countless individuals with different thoughts and positions, transmitting signals was even more a process that required a great deal of time.

Even Transcendent Stage Awakened could not avoid this.

Unless they were willing to handle everything personally and gather every matter into their own hands.

In that case.

Although they would be more exhausted, the overall efficiency of everything would indeed be raised to the utmost.

But... if things really came to that, the nature