Gangduo said quietly, "In the past, a few hundred years ago, I think they didn't have this kind of defensive technology..."
"According to the other civilizations, the trading market wasn't this prosperous a few hundred years ago, either... How could so many civilizations have gathered here?"
He said with some embarrassment, "It seems the Wanhai Civilization has developed very quickly, far faster than us. Our Honggang Civilization... Ah, never mind. Technological bottlenecks and theoretical hurdles that leave us stalled for a hundred years are all too common."
The Macrosteel People had always considered themselves an above-average civilization within this cluster, but now they seemed rather like frogs at the bottom of a well.
So many civilizations possessed unique technologies that it really was difficult to distinguish which were stronger and which were weaker.
Zhang Ming also lowered his voice. "That's normal. With a trading market like this, gathering the strengths of so many civilizations, wouldn't they be a thousand or ten thousand times stronger than an ordinary civilization? The strong get stronger, and the weak stay weak. It's the same everywhere."
"Besides, the other civilizations are all progressing. They can't possibly be standing still."
"But even the Wanhai Civilization, powerful as it is, can't stop the Nether Domain Calamity... Aren't they making any major moves? Aren't they uniting the civilizations to put up some resistance?"
Gangduo shook his head. "The Wanhai Civilization only explained some basic characteristics of the Nether Domain Calamity and asked the civilizations to stamp out any Shadow Beasts immediately upon discovering them, rather than rashly researching the Darkness Rule. That was about it."
"You can collect that basic information over there. I think they might have given up... Once the Nether Domain Calamity spreads here, a civilization as powerful as Wanhai will definitely be able to