A blue giant's sheer size was beyond anything a yellow dwarf could match.
After the two blue giants disappeared, Silicon Ray circled slowly around the Human Fleet, brimming with energy, occasionally giving the Chiyou Fortress a "gentle" slap with its broad, flat pectoral fins.
It seemed particularly fond of these silvery-white planetary fortresses.
Meanwhile, the Alcott Fleet had slunk into the Human Federation's micro-universe-under the agreement, they had to comply with every arrangement Human Civilization made.
Including the Thought Imprint.
Once the third-party civilization had left, Silicon Ray began explaining the situation to the "Enroget Civilization."
[The Cleaners may have tampered with that region of space from higher-dimensional space.]
[The Neutral Faction detected no problems with either the surrounding stellar systems or the black hole's trajectory.]
Silicon Ray's tone was somewhat subdued. [I just received a message. Similar battle reports have come in not only from the Andromeda Galaxy, but from neighboring galaxies as well.]
[It isn't hard to guess that this is an enormous operation that has been underway for a long time.]
[Large numbers of unaffiliated civilizations have been forcibly captured and turned into the Cleaners' vassal civilizations.]
[We underestimated the Cleaners.]
[We used to think the Cleaners would be constrained by the original agreement. Now it seems... sigh!]
"Agreement?"
[Yes, the agreement between the Neutral Faction and the Cleaners.]
[What do you think is the fundamental reason the Neutral Faction can maintain absolute neutrality?]
Lü Yongchang's gaze shifted as he keenly picked up on the key point.
"...Strength?"
[Exactly.]
[The Neutral Faction's overall strength sits precisely at the point of balance. It neither makes the Gardener Faction feel threatened nor interferes with the Cleaners' plans.]
[That is also why the Neutral Faction holds such irresistible appeal for many advanced civilizations-no one wants a war.]
[But... once the