A Game of Chess

With the favorable environment behind the Infinite Sacred Domain, the Silver Heavenly Kingdom's development still maintained a soaring pace. Its scale and number of believers changed by the day.

The state of war instead allowed them to rise even faster.

This did not drain the Infinite Sacred Domain's resources, because the garbage left behind by their daily lives was treasure in the eyes of low-dimensional civilizations. Even garbage rain could be called Treasure Rain.

So it could roughly be understood this way: there were no longer so many high-dimensional beings personally guiding them forward. The Infinite Sacred Domain had merely changed how it sorted and disposed of its garbage, dumping it directly into the Silver Heavenly Kingdom.

And in many respects, the resources acquired by the Silver Heavenly Kingdom had instead surged during wartime.

The reason was simple. What they poured into the Silver Heavenly Kingdom was not useless waste. They simply had no time or energy to deal with it now.

Think of the battle on Azure Star: shell casings scattered across the battlefield, scrapped tanks and armored vehicles, substandard explosives, sunken ships blasted to ruin...

Give those things to someone, and they could become the richest person in the city just by selling scrap metal, let alone putting them to other uses.

Under normal circumstances, there was almost no such "garbage." Only ordinary household waste needed to be dumped.

But things were different now. Every day, scrapped cutting-edge products needed to be dealt with. Compared to the former "Treasure Rain," this was practically the fighter jet of garbage, the Rolls-Royce of scrap!

And all of it was dumped directly into the Silver Heavenly Kingdom!

What did this sort of dimensionality-reduced garbage even mean?

It meant that, if properly digested, an Intermediate Civilization could leap into the ranks of