A Civilization Divided

At first, they assumed the Amoeba intended to attack them, but they quickly dismissed the idea. If the other side wanted to wipe them out, there was no need for all this talk. Even if the Amoeba destroyed the Dalians through a surprise attack without a declaration of war, no one would condemn their actions.

Therefore, the possibility that the Amoeba wanted to exterminate the Dalians was ruled out.

Since they did not intend to destroy them, what was the reason?

The leaders of the three major factions then realized that the Amoeba wanted to subdue the Dalians, just as they had directly stated—to take them in as vassals.

Yet that conclusion raised another question: what was the point of taking the Dalians as vassals?

After much thought, the leaders of the three major factions could only connect it to the Great Destruction. The Amoeba was fighting the Great Destruction, and during that time, it wanted to take the Dalians as vassals. No matter how they looked at it, it seemed that the Amoeba intended to drag the Dalians into this cosmic war as well.

The thought that the Amoeba might demand their involvement in an interstellar war of such magnitude sent a chill shooting from the soles of the three leaders' feet straight to their brains.

Even falling into an ice cellar was not enough to describe how they felt at that moment.

But could they refuse?

Clearly, they could not. The recently destroyed planet Dalim, the more than one hundred thousand main warships annihilated there, and the more than one billion Dalians who had perished all whispered beside the hearing organs of the three leaders like a nightmare—refuse, and there was only death.

The Dalians could not afford to offend the Amoeba, and they could not afford to