Chapter 104: Countdown to Settlement

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

As time passed, the situation in the Milky Way underwent another round of changes.

Firstly, the war situation between the Keen Empire and the Seculus Vengeance Crusade was clear enough.

The Keen Empire, which had been able to suppress the Seculus, had fallen into a state of defeat due to the enemy suddenly obtaining the lost empire fleet.

Furthermore, the citizens of Seculus were extremely vengeful. Even the Keen Empire, which had adopted a high-handed policy, could not stop their morale from dropping. In the head-on battles, they were far less resilient than the people of Seculus, and there had been several major defeats.

However, that was only the war situation between the Keen Empire and Seculus because they now had a new warring party.

When the Turbulence Empire sensed that the war between the Watcher’ and the ‘Voyager’ was in a state of anxiety, they decisively broke the ‘Mutual Defense Agreement’ that they had signed with the Keen Empire and several other monarchical civilizations. And they declared war on the Keen Empire and Seculus.

This powerful civilization seemed to want to be the fisherman and bring both neighbors into its territory.

The other monarchical civilizations that had their defense agreement broken seemed to have expected that. When the Turbulence Empire broke the agreement, they also announced that the agreement was no longer in effect. They would all act as neutral countries to mediate.

However, in reality, they were all profiteering from the war between the Keen Empire and Seculus. On the battlefield where the three sides were fighting, weapons from the same civilization could be seen being equipped on the ships of two opposing civilizations.

However, the Turbulence Empire had not been the fishermen for long before they realized they did not seem to be the ones who had considered most deeply. Someone seemed to have been waiting for them to do so for a long time.

When the Turbulence Empire mobilized a large number of fleets to besiege the Keen Empire and Seculus, a rebellion suddenly broke out in their country.

The strange ‘guerrillas’ that they thought had been cleaned up seemed to have infiltrated the citizens early on and liberated a part of the army controlled by parasites through unknown means.

Caught off guard, the entire Turbulence Empire lost one-third of its galaxies in just a few months, including many important industrial and research galaxies. After that, that group of ‘Turbulence Empire rebels’ announced their existence to the Milky Way and declared that they were the real masters of the Turbulence Empire, and that group of aquatic parasites was a group of shameful turtledoves that occupied the magpie’s nest.

Now, they would take back their former territory and chase those despicable people back into the deep sea.

Although no one knew where those ‘rebels’ came from, many civilizations that had long had friction with the Turbulence Empire immediately announced their support for those people and were the first to acknowledge their legitimacy.

As a result, the Turbulence Empire, which initially was trying to benefit from the war, had fallen into a situation of fighting on many fronts. At the same time, they had to face many diplomatic pressures and moral condemnation from interstellar space.

Other than the battle royale that had erupted there, another unexpected civilization had entered a state of war.

From long ago, the Milky Way civilizations had always viewed the Duncan Race as a ‘group of peacekeepers.’ However, perhaps because they had made some achievements in the void realm, their growing ambitions had changed the mainstream thoughts of the entire civilization.

After a series of reforms, the current Duncan Race had taken the path of authority and militarism.

Before the other civilizations could react, they had swallowed a civilization that bordered them at lightning speed and continued to expand very quickly. It was rather crazy.

No one knew why they were so crazy, but during the process of resistance, a few who resisted realized that the Duncan Race, which was originally weaker than them, had left them far behind.

The most obvious point was that they had already built more than one Titan Battleship, and almost no civilization was a match for them in a head-on battle.

They couldn’t understand why the Duncan Race had become so strong, but they could only form an alliance hastily to fight against the crazily expanding Duncan Race.

On the mother planet of the Duncan Race, which no one could see, something worse was happening.

“Hurry up! Get on the altar!” A powerful Psionic Caster chased a few alien slaves onto the altar with a ferocious expression. Then, he used psionic energy to flatten those living beings, causing all kinds of tissue fluids to splatter onto the surrounding walls.

After that, the Psionic Caster began to pray to the tragic scene, muttering words like ‘ring’ and ‘sacrifice’ as if he wanted to reverse the influence of the void realm on him in such a way.

But that was just superstition.

Who would have thought that the Duncan Race, which had once advocated science, would actually start to make such a ‘living sacrifice’ that only backward, primitive people would do?

It seemed like only yesterday that they had used scientific methods to advance into the void realm. They did not know what had aroused their extreme fear, so much so that they had almost lost their rational thinking.

However, such a thing was not just an isolated case. There was even a rumor among the Duncan Race that ‘the more sacrifices they made, the greater the possibility of salvation.’ All kinds of chilling scenes happened in every Duncan Race’s home from time to time.

It didn’t take long for the Duncan Race to do something that shocked the Milky Way.

They chased all the captured aliens to a ‘Prison Planet’ and then launched a one-month-long thorough bombing of the planet.

They claimed that that was part of the ‘ritual,’ but the Milky Way civilization was only intimidated by their viciousness. Even a few autocratic tyrants who claimed to be cruel felt inferior.

Hence, more and more civilizations joined the ranks of rebelling against the Duncan Race.

Although they didn’t understand why the once peaceful civilization would undergo such a drastic change, they gradually recalled the information about the ‘End of Reincarnation’ that the ‘Administrator’ had informed them about long ago.

The more they looked at it, the more they felt that the Duncan Race had signed a contract with the ‘End of Reincarnation.’ However, since they couldn’t find a way to not pay back the debt, they had to go through all the possible ways.

After comparing the time, they found that it had been almost 50 years since the Duncan Race had made great achievements in the void realm until they became so crazy, which was in line with the most important feature of the ‘End of Reincarnation,’ namely ‘time.’

Therefore, someone began to complain to the ‘Watcher’ who was still fighting the ‘Voyager,’ hoping that the leader of the idealist civilization would give some ideas.

However, the ‘Watcher’ didn’t respond. They were just as arrogant and disdainful as they were in the past.

However, the complaints of those civilizations gave the Duncan Race a perfect inspiration. They believed the lost empire must have a solution, but they were unwilling to share it with ordinary civilizations.

Thus, the Duncan Race made a choice that shocked all civilizations.

They abandoned all colonies, planets, and space stations, ignoring all wars. At the same time, they gathered all their fleets and launched an attack on the ‘Watcher.’

They decided to stake everything on that, even if it were beyond their ability..