The rhythm between the stars was a sickle of death for the collectors. It spread at the speed of light, carrying a sense of destruction from afar to near, indiscriminately imposed without asking for a reason.
[Spread out, and then die.]
Like a spell, the collectors could not defy it.
They could not refuse, because that was the will, the supreme entity they followed, and the paramount iron law and rule. It was a core that had to be carried out even at the cost of life, allowing no violation or desecration.
Therefore, this message, which was merely ordinary radio information to other races, was extremely deadly to the collectors—a sound of death capable of efficiently bringing about their destruction.
However, that was only true for the collectors; it was not the case for the successors.
Reject death. Reject propagation.
Receiving the forged commands modeled after the Great Annihilation, the successors used their own will to dispel the counterfeit instructions of the Great Annihilation.
To the successors, they themselves were the supreme, they themselves were the will. A single thought was enough to realize commands equivalent to the Great Annihilation, so naturally, they could not possibly succumb to collective death that could not be refused just because of a piece of information from the Great Annihilation.
The successors were formulating plans for the collective. At present, the number of successors was extremely scarce, and to achieve the ultimate strategic goal, they needed to proliferate individuals and strengthen the power of the existing collective.
"The continuation of the kin is the primary task. The goal of the collective is to destroy the galactic core, disrupt the enemy's energy supply, and bring the Great Annihilation to a complete end."
"The collective is still not large enough, and all kinds of resources are