By then, the internet had erupted.
The barrage of comments in the livestream was so dense that it almost obscured the entire picture.
"Blue Star will be destroyed in a hundred years? What kind of sick joke is that?"
"That alien is bluffing, right?"
"He's not wrong. Our resources were already running dry before the Spiritual Energy Revival."
"Energy crises, environmental collapse... we really were at a dead end."
"That still doesn't give aliens the right to raise us like bugs!"
"To higher-dimensional beings, we're not even as good as bugs!"
"..."
Different viewpoints and different understandings sent viewers into a frenzy of insults in the livestream.
Panic, anger, and helplessness spread across the internet like a virus.
At the command headquarters of the Four Great Alliances abroad.
"The cosmic Human Alliance..."
"They actually chose only Dragon Country?"
"What does that make White Eagle Country? An expendable pawn?"
White Eagle Country's Blond Commander slumped into his leather sofa.
Unable to accept it, he slammed his fist against the expensive desk.
The leaders of the other countries looked equally devastated.
Before a Cosmic Tier civilization, the technology and alliances they took such pride in were nothing but a ridiculous joke.
At the Martial Arts Research Institute in the Imperial Capital.
Silence reigned before the enormous holographic projection.
Elder Zhan stood with his hands behind his back, his fingertips digging deep into his palms.
"We can't calculate his energy level."
"The detector overloaded outright!"
A researcher's voice trembled as he watched strings of garbled characters flicker across the screen.
"This... Mr. Xie En's energy level is more than a thousand times greater than the Sixth-Tier Venom Dragon's."
Elder Zhan closed his eyes, his chest heaving.
They were fish on someone else's chopping block.
Having no control whatsoever over their own fate