Sovereign of the Ashes

The war between two top-tier civilizations continuously drew out the latent potential of the Magus Civilization. More and more members of the younger generation rose to prominence, and the cohesion of the Magus Alliance grew stronger than ever.

It was a process of separating the wheat from the chaff.

The same was true for the Gallant Federation. Under the immense pressure of the Clash of Civilizations, it was forced to dig deeper into its civilizational foundations.

The Gallant Federation no doubt felt more pressure than the Magus Civilization.

While Magus World spread that pressure across the Magus Alliance and its ranked knights and full-fledged mages, the Gallant Federation drove it all the way down to the base of society, making every citizen bear the cost.

The human population of the Gallant Federation numbered in the hundreds of billions.

Thanks to its extraordinary terraforming technologies and highly advanced interstellar migration systems, the Gallant Federation’s total population was likely several times larger, despite occupying a star domain smaller than that of the Magus Civilization.

That figure also included the countless beings living across the federation’s controlled planes.

Population itself was a resource, and the Gallant Federation’s bold decision to wage war against the Magus Civilization was undoubtedly built upon it.

Moreover, the sheer scale of that population, combined with the constant emergence of so-called “geniuses”, had driven breakthroughs in several technological fields that had long stagnated before the war.

If left unchecked, perhaps this wave of technological advancement and latent potential could really bring about great changes.

At this very moment, deep within a private experimental facility of the Icarus Group in one of the federation’s rear star domains, Syphen was examining the remains of an overlord-class entity recovered from the frontlines.