Ten Billion Clusters Cross the Galactic System

The Amoebas were not merely passively taking hits. They had a strategic policy specifically aimed at the Great Destruction: find its energy source.

But how were they supposed to find it? In the vast sea of stars, a single galactic system alone contained as many as a hundred billion stars.

The Collectors' strategic policy was to search while fleeing.

They could casually generate wormholes and release high-energy pulses. Surely that required at least one star as an energy source, right? Since the enemy's energy source was hidden among a hundred billion stars, they would search them one by one.

The Collectors never lacked patience!

Precisely because they were searching, every cluster would spontaneously send individuals outward once it had developed to a certain extent, forming new clusters. One became two, two became four, four became eight... The number of clusters within the galactic system grew exponentially.

Accompanying this was the massive explosion of one star after another throughout the galactic system.

Whenever a star went supernova, the brightness it released overwhelmed every other luminous celestial body in the galactic system, like a guiding beacon in the sea of stars. But now, these supernovas were artificially induced. From a more macroscopic perspective, they resembled countless camera flashes going off at once. Even scaled down, they would have been enough to blind an ordinary person.

Looking down upon the galactic system, the Amoebas' Collector clusters moved from left to right. Since they traveled faster than light, their movement itself was largely invisible, but their trail could be observed indirectly through the changes in the stars.

One star after another exploded, transforming into terrifying plasma storms and forming a sharply defined dividing line across the galactic system. To the left of that line, there were no stars, no planets, and scarcely even any