Fortunately, the empire he had built with his own hands had lived up to expectations, weathering the pressure and making it through the hardest times. Even more fortunately, the Dark Empire had buckled under the pressure and blown itself apart, allowing the empire to surge forward once it had recovered.
In a short time, it had destroyed the Dark Gods' foothold in the mortal realm. Now time was on the Gods' side. They only needed to slowly wear down the Blood Moon, and the Dark God would fall.
"One or two hundred years should be just right. The empire has suddenly swallowed ten times its former territory, so it can use that time to digest its gains." Conilia breathed a sigh of relief. Once her worries had lifted, she smiled and said:
"When the Space-Time Curtain disappears two hundred years from now, a newborn Energy Civilization will be on display across the universe!"
The empire's Reconnaissance Ships had already explored the edges of this region of spacetime. They had found an invisible curtain enveloping the entire Corrupted Empire, along with the empire's homeland. Inside this spherical space, the empire could not leave, and the outside world could not enter. It was a sealed space.
For an empire that had expanded its territory tenfold and was nearly bursting at the seams, this was actually good news. The military had time to rebuild its deep-space defenses and avert the threat of a Deep Space Invasion when the Space-Time Curtain opened.
The government departments also had ample time to shift the wartime economy back to normal, while adjusting and transporting the excess production equipment built during this special period to the new colony galaxies, where it could be put to good use.
And so, without anyone noticing, the taut string gradually slackened. Aside