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Keisha slapped the armrest of her throne, her pretty face filled with fury.
The angels below fell silent, all looking up at their queen on the throne. Each of them wore an expression of indignation.
"This is outrageous!"
Keisha was furious. Her brows drew together as she said, "How dare this Human Federation show such contempt for angels and the Order of Justice!"
Her phoenix eyes widened, and her fair hand clenched into a fist.
Just moments ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Human Federation had sent a diplomatic ultimatum to the Angel Nebula.
Angel Yan, Angel Zhui, Angel Leng... Nine Senior Angel Guards in total had been sentenced by their civilization to permanent imprisonment.
The provisions of Human Federation law they had violated were also listed one by one.
Along with it, the other side had sent a diplomatic condemnation—
The Human Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded that the Angel Civilization compensate the Human Federation with 5,000 units of Dark Matter every year, measured according to the Solar Calendar, for this diplomatic incident. The compensation would last twenty years.
Otherwise, the Human Federation would be entitled to issue a final diplomatic ultimatum to the Angel Civilization.
By the standards set by the Human Federation, one unit of Dark Matter could upgrade at least 10,000 first-generation angels to the second generation.
Fifty units of Dark Matter would be enough for the angels to build another Celestial-level Dark Matter Computing Cloud.
The Angel Civilization's total mining output over ten thousand years wouldn't amount to even a fraction of 5,000 units of Dark Matter, yet they were being asked to pay that amount for twenty whole years!
If that wasn't going too far, what was?
And that was only the compensation demanded for the diplomatic incident.
If the Angel Civilization wanted to redeem Angel Yan and the other eight angels sentenced to permanent imprisonment by the Human Federation, it would have to pay an additional fee.
One Left-Wing Guardian: 250 × 2 units of Dark Matter.
One Senior Guard: 250 units of Dark Matter.
A total of 2,500 units of Dark Matter!
Faced with such extortion, Keisha could no longer tolerate it.
Even if they sold off the entire Angel Civilization and made every angel a slave to the other side, they might still not be able to pay the bill.
As an angel and the King of Gods, she had never before been threatened so brazenly.
"Your Majesty, launch a Judgment of Justice against this Human Federation!"
Angel Moi stepped forward indignantly. "The Order of Justice cannot allow such an extreme civilization to exist!"
"What they've done in the Milky Way is even more despicable than the Demons!"
"Not only have they mercilessly exterminated civilizations and slaughtered weaker groups beneath them, they've also defiled the angels like this, treating Sister Yan and the others as objects to be traded!"
"I propose that we declare this Human Federation utterly evil, launch a Nebula-level War, and impose the harshest possible sanctions!"
A Nebula-level War!
The Angel Warriors present were stunned. The last time they had fought a Nebula-level War was more than a thousand years ago, against the Demon Legion under Morgana.
In that battle, the angels had destroyed Morgana's entire legion, and she herself had been sentenced in the process.
Every Nebula-level War cost the Angel Nebula vast resources and claimed the lives of thousands upon thousands of warriors.
But every Nebula-level War was a defense of the Order of Justice. Every Angel Warrior who believed in justice was willing to give her life to protect it.
A Nebula-level War against the Human Federation?
The Angel Warriors below stared eagerly, itching to grab their Flame Swords and fly before the Human Federation's warships, ready to cleave them in two.
All they had to do was fight desperately on the battlefield and give their lives for justice.
But Keisha had much more to consider.
Although she was also angered by the Human Federation's relentless pressure, she knew that even a Nebula-level War might not be enough to bring their entire civilization to heel.
According to what they currently knew, the Human Federation's primary goal was to conquer the entire Milky Way.
The Milky Way had around 400 billion Star Systems. Its territory was so vast that even the Angel Civilization would find it nearly impossible to conquer and occupy.
There were three reasons.
First, they didn't have enough people. The total number of Angel Warriors in the Merlot Heavenly Court, within the Angel Nebula, had only just exceeded one million!
Even if every Angel Warrior occupied one Star System, they could only occupy one million Star Systems.
Compared with the entire Milky Way, claiming to have conquered it after occupying a mere million Star Systems would be little more than a joke.
They would then have to maintain their rule, expending all kinds of effort. The cost would be too great, and the angels would have nothing to gain from it.
Second, the angels had no such impractical ambition.
The Known Universe was vast, and even the Angel Nebula, where the angels lived, was only a small celestial body about fifty light-years in diameter.
The Angel Nebula's resources were already enough to support the Angel Civilization for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of years. They had no need to expand blindly.
Whenever they needed rare resources unavailable in the Angel Nebula, they could simply send an Angel Warrior to another Star System to mine them.
Third, there was the matter of their principles.
The Order of Justice extended throughout the Known Universe. Apart from the God-level Civilizations, the civilizations in the universe were all weak Spaceflight-level or Pre-nuclear Civilizations.
Ever since Keisha took power, the angels had never used their strength to bully others. Instead, they did everything they could to help weaker civilizations being oppressed.
For these three reasons, the angels had never been fond of expansion and invasion.
And for them, conquering a vast galaxy like the Milky Way was almost an impossible feat.
Keisha knew her own people's strengths and weaknesses better than anyone.
And what about the Human Federation?
According to the Sacred Knowledge Treasury's data, in the past month or so, nearly ten thousand Star Systems in the Milky Way had disappeared from the Sacred Knowledge Treasury's surveillance!
An unknown algorithm that could not be deciphered had created an information barrier, blocking the Sacred Knowledge Treasury from investigating and monitoring those Star Systems.
Clearly, those Star Systems had all been occupied by the Human Federation!
They had occupied tens of thousands of Star Systems in one month, and their expansion was still accelerating exponentially!
The entire Angel Nebula contained only around three hundred Star Systems.
By comparison, over the past month or so, the Human Federation had expanded its territory by the equivalent of around thirty Angel Nebulas!
If this continued, the Human Federation might truly conquer the entire Milky Way!
By then, a vast galaxy-level civilization would stand in the Known Universe.
Before such a civilization, all God-level Civilizations, angels included, would seem pitifully insignificant.
It was simply unbelievable that the Human Federation had the ambition and boldness to carry out such a grand plan of conquest.
It was proof, in its own way, of just how powerful their civilization was.
Could the Angel Civilization really punish such a civilization?
Keisha's anger gradually faded. Unconsciously, something she had never felt before surfaced in her eyes.
Fear. Panic!
An icy chill came over her.
She realized that the Human Federation, which had suddenly appeared in the Milky Way, was like an abyss capable of swallowing the entire Angel Civilization without a trace.
The Angel Civilization was now caught in a dilemma.
They could either go to war with the Human Federation or accept the other civilization's unreasonable diplomatic demands.
But as the decision-maker, Keisha didn't want to choose either option.
If they fought, she wasn't confident they would win.
The Angel Civilization's strength only looked intimidating.
As the King of Gods in the Known Universe, the Angel Civilization not only had a vast fleet of Heavenly Blade Battleships, but also a considerable number of Spaceflight-level vassal civilizations under its command.
Once war broke out, the Angel Civilization could quickly summon the fleets of its vassal civilizations and assemble a vast army.
But how would such an army compare with the Human Federation's fleets?
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