The tables had turned.
The deathly silence that had once belonged exclusively to the Enroget Civilization's Command Center now descended upon the Kepler-452 Stellar System.
Inside the Kepler Command Center, everyone watched the Planetary Fortress erupting in violent explosions in the Holographic Projection, unable to utter a sound, as though an invisible hand had seized their throats.
Even Lü Yongchang could not help stopping his calculations, horror creeping across his face.
For Human Civilization, Chiyou was already the pinnacle of technological achievement.
It brought together the civilization's most advanced technology from nearly every discipline. Without exaggeration, it was the crystallization of Human Civilization's technological progress!
Yet this culmination of a Level Five Civilization's achievements had been utterly powerless against an attack from a weapon suspected to belong to a Level Six Civilization!
That vast, seemingly unbridgeable gulf weighed on Lü Yongchang's heart like a boulder, making even breathing a little harder.
"Is the gap really this wide...?"
Zhao Zijie's bewildered voice came from beside him. "This is just a single Spatial Weapon..."
Lü Yongchang fell silent for a moment before murmuring, "There's no question about the power of Spatial Weapons."
"But I don't think their power is the fundamental reason for such an overwhelming disparity in combat capability."
Nearby, Tao Yuda's gaze flickered at those words, and he raised his bowed head. "Professor, do you mean..."
"It can attack while engaged in Curvature Navigation?"
"Exactly." Lü Yongchang nodded gravely. "That almost completely changes how civilizations wage war."
"If the greatest difference between a Level Four Civilization and a Level Five Civilization is the Grand Unified Theory and its practical applications..."
"Then Spatial Weapons may be the gulf in combat capability between Level Five and Level Six Civilizations."
"And that gulf may be even wider than the gap between a Level