Chapter 987 Sigh (1/2)

The incident which saw Mycroft being attacked in their own domain did not remain secret, although it would have been impossible to hide it. When the elf who once went by the name Neuper suddenly revealed himself and went on a rampage, none had expected the star of the cosmos that was rising meteorically to suffer a blow from the epidemic.

One-third of the central installation on Zeta Ram was destroyed from the inside in that disaster, including the diplomacy zone arranged for envoys of the otherworld civilizations. Fifty-one emissaries died on the spot, although Mycroft suffered the worse casualties: 370,000 elite installation personnel were killed as the entire base was left in limbo, with the ships of the Third Fleet Detachment that had been on guard duty by the harbor sinking one after the another, the surviving vessels heavily damaged.

If the two Legendary champions stationed nearby—Brandon Kaos and Nostradamus—had not reached Zeta Ram on time and scared the Ultimate Entity into fleeing, the losses would have several times what it had been.

While the casualties appeared insignificant and only one Void installation had been ruined, the dead were all Void personnel each handpicked amongst thousands, not to mention that the Zeta Ram base was directly connected to Mycroft's homeworld and formed a part of their core domain. It was unquestionably a great caution for the Mycroftians, shaking off the mistaken notion that disaster was too far from them.

In the end, distance was nothing for a supernatural plague.

Still, the other civilizations now had to truly face the disaster unraveling across the Multiverse. Indeed, it was not as if most of them were still unaware that the state of the Multiverse was become ever grave and unsettling, certainly noticing the signs such as the increase in World Eaters, some squirming existence in the dark Void, and the increasing surges of the Great Mana Tide…all of them understood that the old era of stable peace where they could calmly develop and enjoy themselves was gone, that the epidemic that engulfed the Multiverse was the prelude as conflict descended from the distant Stellaris.

As the Mana Tide came, so did war—the final moments of an era's cycle were now slowly unraveling upon the stage that was the Multiverse.

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”…We must admit the truth that we are facing a profound crisis.”

On the Zeta Ram Void installation, in another major assembly of many civilizations hastily organized by the Mycroftian alliance, a beautiful blue-haired youth with a calm face stood before the stage and spoke with a solemn tone—he was Merlin, the God of Order and Destruction and whose profound might left the entire scene stunned. He did not hesitate to reveal the truth to the civilizations that were willing to know: facts about the Evil Gods that the Mycroft civilization was aware of, as well as their theories about the future of the Multiverse.

”This major epidemic is just the start. It may not even be created by an Evil God, but by another superior being who faces the same threat—the Evil Gods are not what it could face alone. Trust us in this: that assault of over a hundred Evil Gods would include powerful primitive specimens that surpass human intelligence, and no civilization can fight them all alone.”

”Indeed, we are researching and resisting the epidemic, and should nothing unexpected happen, our specialized researcher Aydril Galanoud will develop a vaccine in days to come. Though we cannot guarantee its effectiveness, we are confronting the epidemic head-on and not merely guarding passively. We will freely provide the information to every civilization who would in turn create them independently, and in that respect, it is our hope that all civilizations will join hands against future threats and do as we did: to share and collaborate, an attribute of civilizations, not beasts.”

”Even beasts share and collaborate though…” one of the envoys below the stage muttered very quietly. However, the stage had been very silent and the newly-appointed envoys considerably powerful, which was why those words instantly caused waves of muffled debate.