What I said earlier wasn't a bluff or an attempt to play hard to get—the Kindling Human Civilization and the Rune Civilization were located in two different universes.
It was simply unrealistic for the Rune Civilization to expect the Kindling Human Civilization to come to its aid and help fight the Cthulhu Beast.
Li Zongxu had already planned to express, in a relatively tactful way, that the Sky Peng Horizontal was willing to lend a hand.
On one hand, he wanted to see if they could gain some additional benefits from these Rune Civilization survivors.
More importantly, he wanted to secure a suitable degree of initiative in the cooperation. After all, if you were too eager, it wasn't a good deal.
The Sky Peng Horizontal had come to help these Rune Civilization survivors, so it wouldn't do to take too low a stance.
However, that had been Li Zongxu's original plan.
After the leader of the Rune Civilization survivors had asked such a direct question, Li Zongxu could clearly skip most of the preliminaries.
So, although he was somewhat surprised by the leader's perceptiveness, Li Zongxu still nodded with confidence.
"As a Death Starship belonging to the Pan-Universal Human Race Civilization Alliance, the Sky Peng Horizontal is indeed capable of facing the Cthulhu Beast head-on, but we cannot guarantee that we can kill it outright."
Li Zongxu had sufficient confidence in the Sky Peng Horizontal, but he wouldn't make any rash promises.
The Cthulhu Beast was, after all, an eleventh-level Legendary creature.
The Sky Peng Horizontal was fully confident it could hold its own.
But the Old Ones had always been strange and unpredictable. Who knew whether that Cthulhu Beast had some unfathomable means of saving its life?
At Li Zongxu's words, the Rune Civilization survivors' senior leaders all showed