Chapter 1201
Timothy held his place on the border for a year. Two years. Five. He made a very obvious retreat from the border for one year… and still the Swirling Swarm did not act. It was deeply disturbing that they launched no counterattack. They truly didn’t care.
That was the best result for the Scarlet Alliance, but the most difficult to accept personally. Usually, it was an endless cycle of violence. However, he supposed that for those who committed violence without reason to begin with, being given one wouldn’t necessarily provoke them to action. Usually, the deaths of friends and loved ones would provoke a response… but the Swirling Swarm might not have had any.
Or perhaps they were playing the long game, nursing their wounds to attack in another decade, century, or millennium. Cultivators could wait, even if far fewer would last until the latest of those timelines.
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Plans were tossed around to accelerate the rate at which the Scarlet Alliance expanded throughout the midfields. There was simply too much area to defend. On the other hand, expanding too rapidly would create weaknesses everywhere.
“I would love to accomplish something like that,” Catarina explained to the council. “But even if I was given total control of every formation master we have, it would be impossible. We’d have to cover a border ten times our own without any proper foundation.”
“Is it not possible?” Alva asked. “You’re a Domination cultivator now…”
Catarina shook her head. “I think we’ve proven well enough how little that means. Domination cultivators are just slightly stronger people, nothing more. It’s not a matter of simply modifying border worlds, though that would be difficult enough.”
“If the spatial distortion is extended to all corners of the midfields…” Prasad began.