Basic Table Manners

Regarding the number and scale of the Human Federation's fleet groups, Keisha had already grasped some information and established a preliminary understanding.

Any fleet group of the opposing civilization, based on the surface data detected by the Sacred Knowledge Treasury, seemed far more powerful than their Heavenly Blade Battleship groups.

Keisha knew this news, but she did not tell her Angel Warriors.

Because she dared not.

Why did those little angels below dare to clamor for a Nebula-level War to sanction the Human Federation?

Their fearlessness stemmed from a genuine ignorance deep within their hearts.

But Keisha could not afford to be as ignorant as they were.

She could no longer sit still; if her warriors learned the true situation of the Human Federation, a massive upheaval would inevitably erupt within the Angel Civilization.

As the Angel King of the Merlot Heavenly Court, Keisha was not lacking the courage and responsibility to reveal the truth and face the fear together with her warriors.

The reason she chose to temporarily conceal the truth was merely to avoid unnecessary panic that would throw their ranks into chaos.

Waging war against the Human Federation was not an option, nor was accepting the diplomatic extortion of the opposing civilization.

Either could bring the threat of utter destruction upon the Angel Civilization in the near future.

Keisha racked her brains to find a third way, attempting to reach some form of reconciliation with this Human Federation and avoid conflict, but found no solution at all.

Because the opposing civilization had blocked all other channels of communication, leaving them only with the two diplomatic options of war or surrender.

Helpless, Keisha could only order active preparations for war while sending someone to summon Heavenly King Hexi to discuss the matter together, to see if they could "choose the lesser of two evils."

If the Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs on United Star knew Keisha's inner thoughts, they would surely feel nothing but contempt for her.

Because they had seen too many alien scum like this.

In the vast sea of stars, weak interstellar civilizations had never had any diplomacy to speak of.

And the reason they were willing to engage in diplomacy with the Angel Civilization was merely a small trick.

The strategic value of the Angel Nebula was too low; it was neither within the Milky Way Galaxy nor separated by tens of millions of light-years.

If they needed to conquer the entire Angel Nebula and fully occupy it, the time and resource costs would be enormous.

The final gains might not even cover the cost of a single Federation fleet group's expedition across tens of millions of light-years.

With that effort, it would be better to develop more local star systems in the Milky Way and accelerate the pace of the Great Expedition.

So-called diplomacy was nothing more than a simple, simplistic deceptive tactic.

To see whether the opposing civilization would choose to take the blade to the neck or shrink from it.

If they could extort a batch of Dark Matter resources from the opposing civilization through diplomatic means in advance, then the cost of attacking that civilization would essentially be borne by them—this was the true malice of the Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials.

If extortion failed, there was no need to dwell on gains or losses.

The Federation had an ancient adage: "Though far, they must be punished."

The Angel Civilization had offended the Federation twice and was one of the few interstellar civilizations in this universe capable of posing a threat.

The Federation could never coexist peacefully with them.

No matter how weak a civilization, there was always a chance it could grow into a behemoth.

Let alone these so-called Kings of Gods like the Angels; no matter how weak, they still possessed some capacity for cosmic strategic deployment and redevelopment potential.

Such a civilization, once encountered, must be eliminated at ten times the cost if necessary!

The Federation had no record of leaving enemies unchecked; any fool worthy of catching the Federation's attention deserved their full effort.

Apart from the Angel Civilization, the Lieyang Civilization also had to be destroyed.

To be honest, from the perspective of the Human Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials, these God-level Civilizations were all quite bizarre.

Because they had never seen an interstellar civilization that, possessing FTL means and the ability to achieve cross-galactic travel across the entire universe, could still make such a mess of its own civilization.

In some aspects, God-level Civilizations like the Angels and Lieyang were even worse than some pre-FTL native civilizations they knew of.

Their civilization forms and development philosophies were severely deformed.

The entire Known Universe, including the Angels and Lieyang, seemed to have only five so-called God-level Civilizations.

But the total population of these five God-level Civilizations apparently did not exceed ten billion!

The Angel Civilization had a million Angel Warriors, which sounded imposing, but they were all female angels, with no male angels.

A civilization with a population perpetually maintained at a mere million, whose true ruling territory did not exceed fifty light-years.

Yet they had the audacity to clamor about cosmic justice day in and day out, and even arrogantly called themselves sacred.

In the eyes of the Human Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials, such behavior was hardly different from insanity.

Where did they get this misplaced confidence?

Not to mention the entire universe, but just the life within the Milky Way's approximately 4000 billion galaxies—did they need this pitiful bit of justice from them?

Would the entire Milky Way stop spinning the next second without this so-called justice?

Their so-called Order of Justice sounds grand and imposing.

In reality, it is nothing more than a dilapidated house with a well-decorated facade—one light kick from the Federation, and the whole structure will come crashing down.

Even more bizarre is the Lieyang Civilization.

The mother planet of this civilization, "Lieyang Planet," was split in half tens of thousands of years ago. Yet, despite clearly possessing the capability for interstellar travel and having the vastness of the universe at their disposal to roam freely, they stubbornly clung to a planet reduced to half its mass for tens of thousands of years.

When they finally entertained the notion of relocating their people, they inexplicably set their sights on Planet Earth.

Upon receiving this news, every official in the Human Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs failed to comprehend the baffling logic behind this civilization's actions.

According to the latest data obtained by the Federation's Sentry Array, the entire Known Universe has a maximum diameter exceeding 10 billion light-years, a maximum width exceeding 7 billion light-years, and a maximum thickness exceeding 1 billion light-years!

Even a galactic-scale celestial structure like the Milky Way, with a diameter of over 100,000 light-years, is just one among hundreds of millions in the universe!

Yet Lieyang, with pinpoint precision, selected the Milky Way from among hundreds of millions of galactic structures.

Then, from the approximately 400 billion star systems within the Milky Way, they zeroed in on the Solar System, fixed their gaze on Planet Earth, and committed themselves to a relentless, no-holds-barred struggle.

A thousand years ago, they fought a life-or-death battle here with a monkey; a thousand years later, they still refuse to abandon their covetous designs on Earth.

Over a span of a thousand or ten thousand years, would it really be so difficult to simply find a suitable star system elsewhere in the universe?

The leader of the Lieyang Civilization would rather watch his people eke out a miserable existence on half a planet than give up his obsession with Earth.

No, this is no longer just being fixated on a single tree.

It is like a small fish in the ocean, nearly dying of thirst because it cannot have a single drop of the seawater it so desperately craves.

Such a bizarre civilization leader and ruling class, if placed in the Human Federation as Grand Marshal, would have been collectively hanged long ago. Yet they have managed to maintain their rule over Lieyang for tens of thousands of years.

In this universe, aside from other God-level Civilizations and the so-called "Ultimate Fear," is there anything else that could threaten their existence?

The resources of the entire universe are nearly limitless, allowing these God-level Civilizations to take whatever they want. How have they managed to make their own civilization's survival so difficult?

Could it be that Planet Earth in this universe is some kind of "Cosmic Object of Desire," worthy of the covetousness of so many God-level Civilizations?

This sent the officials of the Human Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs scrambling to verify the data overnight.

After a full day's work, they confirmed that Planet Earth was nothing more than an ordinary, unremarkable, insignificant little rock.

Only after confirming that none of these God-level Civilizations' languages contained any alternative appellations like "Constantinople Planet" did they breathe a slight sigh of relief.

Subsequently, the collective officials of the Human Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs slapped the label "Extremely Idiotic Civilization" onto the "Lieyang Civilization."

As for the Angel Civilization, they were two levels lower, classified as "Moderately Idiotic," a hair's breadth away from "Severely Idiotic."

These genius-level God-level Civilizations are all like people guarding an unlocked treasure vault, slowly starving themselves to death.

Such once-in-ten-thousand-years genius civilizations have somehow produced five of them in the vast universe!

Whether this is a blessing or a curse for the universe remains to be seen.

The universe cannot speak; perhaps it does not care.

The Human Federation, however, says: bring them on.

This universe is a calm sea, and the civilizations within it possess no competitive survival instincts.

A calm sea may not produce many excellent sailors, but it will certainly raise stupid fish willing to take the bait on their own.

But then again, no matter how stupid the fish, it doesn't affect the taste. Carefully prepared and served on the table, it all makes for a fine dish.

Respecting every piece of food is the basic etiquette of the dining table.

After all, one must despise the enemy strategically but take them seriously tactically.

After the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials handed the relevant information over to the Ministry of Armed Forces officials, following a detailed discussion, they decided to use the "Angels" and "Lieyang" as targets for a new type of warship's power test.

According to the wishes of the Federation's Grand Marshal, this new warship was named—

"Sky Burning Divine Weapon"!

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