The fall of the Eternity Domain was like a boulder hurled into a tranquil lake, stirring wave upon wave of towering turmoil across the Chaos Sea.
The news spread wildly in all directions like an invisible storm. Wherever it reached, countless domains trembled, terrified and unable to find peace.
The Astral Realm had changed.
That superdomain, which had once stood alongside the Eternity Domain as one of the two poles of this region of the Chaos Sea, had risen again with unprecedented ferocity after its long silence following the Mother of the Stars' era.
And it no longer rose through gentle expansion and assimilation, but through naked, undisguised conquest.
But panic and resistance were of little use. The domains scattered across the Chaos Sea had always lacked coordination and trust among themselves. Faced with the Astral Realm's suffocatingly vast conquest army, they either chose to fight alone in an attempt to resist or hurriedly surrendered to the Astral Realm in abject fear.
A handful of domains tried to join forces and form alliances, but their numbers and size were still like streams beside rivers, ants beside elephants, compared with the allied forces of the Astral Realm's three great domains. They could offer no effective resistance.
Thus, the age of great conquest officially began.
Using the Eternity Domain as a springboard, the Astral Realm Allied Forces embarked on a sweeping campaign of conquest in every direction across the Chaos Sea.
Countless fleets surged forth like countless torrents of conquest, setting out from the three cores of the Astral Realm, the Pantheon Domain, and the Abyss Domain. They advanced in different directions, conquering and annexing one domain after another and bringing them into the Astral Realm civilization's territory.
Lancelot and Gustavo each led their own armies along separate paths. Like two sharp