Qi Sheng's gaze pierced the barriers of space and fell upon the sky over Earth's Arctic.
The faint black line from ten years ago had, over the years, become a sinister black rift spanning a kilometer, suspended above the polar region.
The Earth Alliance's current surveillance satellites could already capture the rift clearly.
But the Star Network had chosen to conceal it, altering every satellite image to hide the terrifying anomaly.
Without the Star Network's information blockade, the black fissure tearing through the sky would inevitably have ignited global debate and spread panic worldwide.
At that moment, the black rift was twisting violently.
Black fog churned endlessly, and Spatial Folds piled atop one another.
A stable Dark Tide spatial passage was about to take shape.
Qi Sheng's gaze penetrated the depths of the rift, crossed the turbulence, and looked toward a black nebula deep in the void.
The War Platform, as vast as a galaxy, was none other than a branch of the Dark Tide: the Tadu Legion.
His gaze continued through layer after layer of black fog before finally settling on one corner of the black nebula.
A joint legion of Monarchs was returning after concluding an off-world war of devouring.
The Monarch leading this joint legion was reviewing the state of the war across the various battlefields.
He used this to determine their next course of action.
During this process, the leading Monarch coordinated and assigned missions, dividing the temporary joint legion among different objectives.
Large numbers of Evil Spirit Warriors who received their missions turned into streaks of pitch-black light, crossing space to reach secondary battlefields and carry out their devouring missions.
In just seconds, nearly half the Dark Tide Warriors had received missions and departed.
The leading Monarch then turned toward the other Monarchs of equal