A week later, Port Madoc's entire front collapsed. Across the whole galaxy, with its population of trillions, fewer than one in ten thousand escaped. Everyone else became energy for Zergling evolution. According to footage intercepted by the Overlords, the fleeing fleets from Port Madoc stretched bow to stern in dense, endless lines like a school of fish crossing a river, extending for thousands of kilometers. Even a crude transport ship might be crammed with hundreds or thousands of elites from every field.
The fall of Port Madoc was merely a signal—a signal of the Zerg's full-scale offensive.
In the second week after Port Madoc fell, Bordeaux, a galactic civilization supported by Saint Masente, was conquered. Immediately afterward, the Copenhagen Civilization surrendered unconditionally!
Across the entire Pusilan Star Region, only Saint Masente remained outside Ye Luo's grasp. The energy and resource planets seized from the major civilizations also replenished the resource reserves that had been emptied by the Zerg's successive evolutions.
Having suddenly acquired such a vast territory created a new problem: how to manage it.
There seemed to be no need to consume it all as resources. The resource planets acquired from the three major galaxies, together with those Ye Chao had collected earlier, were enough to sustain the Zerg for half a year. Yet they could not simply be left vacant either. Without garrisons, they could easily become footholds for interstellar pirates.
Just as Ye Luo was struggling with this, Cassandra came to see him. "My Emperor, I..."
"What is it?" Ye Luo looked at the hesitant Cassandra with amusement. "Stammering like this isn't your style..."
"My father sent me. He said, he said..." Cassandra's face flushed. Though she had long since become Ye Luo's woman, a married daughter was like water spilled from the basin. Ye Luo had