The so-called extinction sacrifice was a truly weighty trump card of the World's Seventh Strata, a privilege that only those of the Seventh Stratum could use.
By analogy, it was like nuclear weapons on Earth. Besides serving as a powerful deterrent against those of the same stratum, it also possessed immense destructive power.
After performing an extinction sacrifice, a Seventh Stratum would gain authority within the Spiritual Domain one level above that of a Spirit Sovereign. Though it could not compare to the Master, it would be capable of truly erasing a Spirit Sovereign.
Naturally, such power came at a price. As its name implied, an extinction sacrifice required a large-scale sacrificial ritual to take effect.
The sacrificial offerings had to be members of the sacrificer's own race. Once a Seventh Stratum used this method, its population would inevitably plummet until it was completely reduced to zero.
The Bofur Hegemony's vast population began to shrink dramatically, as though swallowed by an invisible, gaping maw. The executor of the sacrifice was the Spiritual Domain itself; trying to stop it was equivalent to facing the Master directly. On the colonial planets, countless Bofur citizens let out heart-wrenching wails of despair.
The Bofur Hegemony's decision-makers, who had personally sent their compatriots to their doom, felt not the slightest guilt. They had known this would happen when they made their decision. Thus, after completing the extinction sacrifice, they did not consider how many of their own people would perish, but how to strike back at the detestable Amoebas.
Revenge! They wanted revenge! They would bring destruction upon those damned alien vermin! The Bofur Hegemony was furious—furious at the Amoebas' refusal to know their place, furious at being forced to use an extinction sacrifice. If they failed to destroy the Amoebas, the sacrifice of their