No One Survives

Lei Zhe was right. When the Silver Heavenly Kingdom made a grand show of crossing the starfields and deploying troops into this region, it did indeed encounter some pressure.

That pressure was far from absolute. Even if they did not fear the Silver Heavenly Kingdom's power from beyond the heavens, they still had to be wary of the logic behind this Emerging Heavenly Kingdom's rise. Countless civilizations had sent signals of goodwill during this period. How could small fry like them go against the tide?

It could only be said that Morning Star's Minister of Foreign Affairs had truly put in the effort, making its allies more or less dissatisfied with the Silver Heavenly Kingdom's decision to deploy a massive army into their starfields without prior notice.

But that was as far as it went. Most of Morning Star's allies quickly fell under the Silver Heavenly Kingdom's combination of threats and inducements. They accepted the benefits offered and chose to let them pass.

Only a very few, whose entanglement of interests with the Morning Star Empire ran too deep and whose upper echelons had basically all been bought off by Morning Star, struggled a little longer. Once their dirty dealings were exposed, they were surely doomed, so they could only follow Lei Zhe down this dark path to the end.

However, pressure from the public and their desire to preserve themselves meant that they could not react with complete determination. The task assigned by Morning Star's Minister of Foreign Affairs was merely to prevent them from yielding entirely. There was still some Flexible Space left; they had not been forced into a dead end.

Even so, senior officials from allied powers who chose to flee with their buckets kept coming in an endless stream. They all knew Emperor Lei Zhe's