It was probably not just [Time].
In this extremely brief "small-scale conflict," large numbers of dimensional beings had also died!
By a conservative estimate, only a few lucky one-dimensional and two-dimensional members of the Gardener Faction had escaped Andromeda's core region.
[Thread] found their own suspicions increasingly difficult to believe.
The Cleaners and the Gardener Faction Civilization were mortal enemies. Their clashes and disputes had persisted for untold ages, but...
This was the first time either side had suffered such heavy casualties in a small-scale conflict!
Wide-area tachyon broadcasts arrived one after another from infinitely far away. [Thread] instinctively read the broadcast sent by a member of the Gardener Faction.
[Laniakea Supercluster Branch: the Milky Way Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster has fallen. The Universe-Spanning Accelerator Node has been successfully destroyed.]
[Laniakea Supercluster Branch: the Large Magellanic Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster has fallen.]
[...]
These were battle reports covering the entire Laniakea Supercluster!
While the large galaxies remained locked in fierce fighting, the smaller galaxies had already been completely overrun by the Gardener Faction!
As [Thread] read the tachyon broadcasts one after another, their grief gradually subsided.
They collected themselves and sent an encrypted wide-area tachyon broadcast into the infinitely distant starry expanse.
[Laniakea Supercluster Branch: the Andromeda Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster has fallen!]
A resounding victory for the Gardener Faction!
Although this victory had been bought with the lives of countless dimensional beings, it would undoubtedly cause a major delay to the Cleaners Civilization's universe-spanning acceleration plan!
The moment the broadcast went out, [Thread] plunged into the blue giant before them without hesitation.
The young, blazing star dimmed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Although they could extract vacuum zero-point energy, drawing energy directly from a star was undoubtedly faster and more convenient under these