[Final mission confirmed: "Destroy the Amoeba civilization. Not a single cell may be overlooked."] [Initiating spacetime wall sequence...]
Information spread from the Fourth Domain, radiating outward to the boundless horizon. The warped spacetime enveloping the entire galaxy changed with it. That alteration indirectly affected the spacetime pillars, and under Si's astonished observation, the spacetime pillars began to disintegrate.
As the spacetime pillars serving as transport conduits broke apart, the negative mass within naturally leaked out.
Matter throughout the galaxy was vanishing because of the massive leakage of negative matter.
Fortunately, this spread traveled at light speed rather than faster-than-light speed. Covering the entire galaxy would take at least seventy or eighty thousand years.
Some of the Successors used star-devouring megastructures to travel faster than light, informing their kin near the galactic core about the abnormalities in the spacetime pillars. The remaining Successors fled toward the galactic core at light speed, maintaining relative stillness with the negative matter spreading behind them.
"Is the Correction Authority planning to drag us down with it?"
Because Si and the Successors under its command had focused primarily on researching the spacetime pillars, they had been the first to discover their movement. That was also why they had seized the opportunity to hide inside a star-devouring megastructure, using faster-than-light travel to notify their kin of the disturbance and rush toward the galactic core.
Si refuted its kin. "I don't think so. On the contrary, I feel that the Correction Authority has finally cast off all restrictions and is truly fighting us."
"In past battles, I always felt that the Correction Authority deliberately avoided allowing its destructive range to expand without limit. Only as the intensity of battle increased did it gradually broaden the scope of destruction."
Si's words stunned the Successors. They had never