Chapter 558: Arrival
Their eyes gleamed with ambition and desire, but they also grew wary of their companions. Wealth stirs greed, and the Swarm’s treasure was far more than mere wealth. It represented power, honor, and the potential to attain everything they had ever coveted.
But at the same time, another question arose in their minds: If the race that left this legacy was so powerful, what caused their extinction? Or perhaps… had they ascended to a higher plane of existence?
Civilizations, from the moment they first ventured beyond their home planets, have been filled with boundless imagination about higher technologies and higher dimensions. Even now, as each of their races reigns over hundreds of star systems, this imagination has not ceased.
If the civilization that left this legacy was so powerful, it would be difficult to completely exterminate them. At the very least, a civilization at the level of the Ji Race could withstand most natural disasters. Even if they couldn’t, they would surely detect the threat early and escape without issue.
To exterminate a civilization like the Ji Race, aside from their own self-destruction, only a war with a civilization of equal strength could achieve it.
However, if it were a war, most races wouldn’t be in the mood to leave behind a legacy. Even if they did, their opponents of equal strength would likely not allow this legacy to fall into the hands of outsiders.
Thinking this way, the only option left is self-destruction. Could it be that this race, while attempting to break through to a higher dimension, left behind a memento of their former home?
Did this race succeed or fail? If they succeeded, could they, now in a higher dimension, interfere here?
“Stop overthinking. Those are just things from science fiction. What it truly is, we’ll see once we defeat the Swarm.” The meeting room had been silent for a long time, each attendee lost in their own thoughts, until someone snapped back to reality and broke the silence.