One Minute Later

What followed was even more complicated than attacking the Morning Star Empire. After all, for the Silver Heavenly Kingdom, which possessed overwhelming strength, pouring firepower onto the weaker side had been relatively simple.

Even Emperor Lei Zhe, the one most capable of resisting, had been taken down by Tang Chuan. The rest no longer had any power to resist.

However, organizing the evacuation of the remaining people required far more meticulous effort and would take some time.

Fortunately, with the Associated Body's formidable efficiency, the Silver Heavenly Kingdom had already taken control of the battered Morning Star Empire starfield and brought the situation under control.

The most deeply moved were the Old Era Remnants who had returned to their homeland. Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar sights on their home planet, everyone wore a different expression. Some were lost in melancholy, some wept bitterly, and some were overwhelmed by indescribably complicated emotions.

Azk emerged from his boundless sentimentality and, beneath the resentful gazes of the Morning Star residents who had been taken over, began organizing the remnants for one final memorial to the Morning Star of old.

From this day onward, the Morning Star was no more. Everything from the past faded like smoke, surviving only in the memories of these remnants as it became part of the Silver Heavenly Kingdom's Cosmic Territory.

They tore down the monkeys' now-meaningless commemorative statues and unearthed, beneath the layers of soil that had covered them, the memorial ruins dedicated to the heroic spirits of the former Morning Star Empire.

After restoration and repairs, Azk led the Old Era Remnants, together with all the descendants of the Dawn Empire far beyond the stars, in proclaiming this victory to their ancestors—to those countless heroic spirits.

"We have repaid every humiliation of the past. With the