Chapter 457
The Metamorphic Empress decisively chose to withdraw upon realizing that the Milky Way Star Lord had reached the level of "invincible unless a twelfth-rank strongest one intervenes." Continuing the fight would only waste the resources of the Insect Race.
So far, the Insect Race had already paid a hefty price in this supermassive battlefield war. Close to a hundred strongest weapons, numerous eleventh-rank clones, and the life essence used to activate the Balance Scale—amounting to one-tenth of ten eleventh-rank completions’ life essence—were sacrificed. The recovery of these resources would require an indeterminate amount of time and effort.
While the Insect Race’s foundations remained stable as long as its Empresses were unharmed, any interruption in their eleventh-rank succession could prevent the birth of a new twelfth-rank Empress for billions or trillions of years.
Other peak factions, meanwhile, would likely see the emergence of new twelfth-rank strongest ones. If the Insect Race failed to keep up, its position among the twelve peak factions would weaken over time.
As for the price of conceding defeat? It was merely one ten-thousandth of their territory—a cost the Insect Race could bear.
“How did the Milky Way Star Lord achieve such overwhelming strength, far beyond the limits of an eleventh-rank completion? Could it be related to the final opportunity that human civilization obtained?”
The Metamorphic Empress scrutinized Lin Yuan from a distance, attempting to uncover some of his secrets, but Xuanyuan’s presence blocked her efforts. In terms of strength, Xuanyuan was her equal. In a desperate fight, the Metamorphic Empress would even be at a disadvantage.
Across the cosmic void, among the dozens of twelfth-rank strongest ones, the only ones who made Xuanyuan wary were the two strongest ones of the Calamity Race. However, the Calamity Race’s strongest ones dared not unleash their full power in the universe, as doing so risked suppression by the universe’s will.
“It’s just one supermassive war. When the next one begins, we’ll ensure the Milky Way Star Lord is barred from participation,” the Metamorphic Empress thought silently.