(A chapter 500 commemoration)
Recently, the situation in the war in heaven had progressed further, though not all that much had changed.
Xi Yan hated Southern the Milky Way so much his teeth ached. As the Non-Aligned Organization's home base, Southern the Milky Way had somehow remained entirely untouched by war, and the Starfish Republic was unusually stable internally. How could he allow that?
Seeing others prosper hurt more than watching his own empire descend into civil strife. Xi Yan resolved to use the Contingency to give the Starfish Republic a nasty surprise.
North the Milky Way was still locked in ferocious fighting.
The two Awakened Empire blocs fought each other while also battling the Non-Aligned Organization's aggressive invasion of North the Milky Way, until even the Great Dao was almost ground out of existence. ()
The Starfish-led Non-Aligned Organization had turned the United Nations of Earth into hell on earth. Relying on superior numbers, their combined fleets drove the Feitesiа Arbitration Empire back again and again.
Meanwhile, the Rixi Reconquest Empire kept hammering the Feitesiа Arbitration Empire's backside, leaving the entire Benevolent Interventionists bloc under attack from both front and rear, constrained at every turn.
Xi Yan thought this was no good.
The war in heaven had to become a vast quagmire, dragging every empire into it and constantly draining their strength, yet remaining difficult to end.
He had to maintain a three-way conflict and take a page from that damned Paradox Interactive he remembered by adjusting the balance.
The Non-Aligned Organization was too strong? Then nerf it!
"Your Majesty, we have fully completed the nanite assimilation of the Contingency's Artificial Intelligence World. All research and deciphering are complete."
Right on cue, a solution arrived.
Almost another half year had passed in a flash. With sheer population numbers thrown