Destruction of the Intruders

Just as the Unknown was about to relay to the Collectors the information that the depths of the Spirit Realm would be sealed off,

another group of intruders arrived near the Collectors. The moment they entered, they aimed directly at the Collectors, who were still negotiating with the Unknown.

"Are you the intruders within the Vast Expanse?"

"Looks like we arrived just in time. These creatures have struck a deal with the Watcher's Shadow."

The intruders had bizarre appearances. Some looked like dilapidated wooden ships, some were masses of flesh covered in arms, and others were gigantic organisms shaped like octopuses...

Among them, the Collectors recognized two familiar things. One was a combat vessel of the Coordination Council, a sphere constructed from machinery and flesh. The other was the herdsman's mount, a cross-shaped warship.

Compared with the Collectors, the number dispatched here by the Seventh Stratum could be described as an army of countless thousands.

Such a massive number of intruders thoroughly enraged the Unknown that had been preventing the Collectors from delving deeper into the Spirit Realm.

[Intruders! Damn it!]

The Collectors received the Unknown's message. Then they saw the vast army sent into the Spirit Realm by the Seventh Stratum begin to distort.

Unlike the Collectors, the Seventh Stratum's space-combat formations that had intruded into the place they called the 'Vast Expanse' did not possess those little cards identifying them as individuals of the Radiant civilization. The Unknown could unleash its malice without restraint.

In an instant, ninety percent of the Seventh Stratum's vast army that had entered the Vast Expanse vanished, wiped away as easily as dust from a tabletop.

Only then did the Collectors directly witness what kind of power the Unknown they had tirelessly been pestering truly possessed.

"Watcher's Shadow, we have no intention of