The Destiny Ring Star's retreat was perfectly timed.
This was, in fact, inevitable.
After the Mirror Civilization and Silk Civilization entered the fray, Ella calculated that the Destiny Ring Star's chances of victory were less than 10%.
If the Destiny Ring Star's last 2.7-level Civilization had entered, their chances might have increased to 20% or even 30%.
It was said to be a Civilization with strength comparable to the Advancing Civilization.
However, that Civilization was too far away.
Not to mention its distance from Human Civilization, it was nearly ten thousand light-years even from the Flying Civilization.
They wanted to enter, but they simply couldn't make it in time.
The previous attack was the Destiny Ring Star's final probing attempt.
Ella also had internal information from Jin Farui.
According to Jin Farui's description, the Destiny Ring Star's interior was currently in great chaos.
It wasn't just the chaos of failing to conquer Human Civilization; there seemed to be other crises as well.
Jin Farui heard a lot of “deaths,” suggesting that the Destiny Ring Star's interior was undergoing a major upheaval.
“Next, your main focus should be on the movements of the Destiny Ring Star Civilization.”
“Based on my deductions, they should leave the Milky Way very soon.”
The Destiny Ring Star's overall position was actually closer to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
They were unwilling to interact with the Civilizations of the Large Magellanic Cloud, as that was a massive dwarf galaxy composed of tens of billions of Stars.
It would be very difficult to carve out a share from the established powers.
Therefore, they chose the direction of Human Civilization.
Now, being unable to break through Human Civilization in the short term, coupled with the intervention of other external forces, the Destiny Ring Star could only settle for the next best option.
Ella estimated that they would likely first advance towards the Monoceros and Canis Major constellations, passing near the Perseus Arm, possibly reaching NGC 1851 or NGC 2298.
Both are globular clusters outside the Milky Way's disk, possessing tens or hundreds of thousands of times the Sun's mass.
They are relatively easy to find clusters within the Milky Way, not far from the Milky Way's disk, and only about 35,000 light-years from the original Solar System's location.
Among the Destiny Ring Star's five 2.7-level Civilizations, three are small Civilizations that extract energy from the super-microscopic world, so they don't need as many Star resources; while accommodating the Destiny Ring Star in those clusters would be a squeeze, it's not impossible.
The main reason is that the resource abundance there is inherently not very high.
So even if there are Civilizations there, they are highly likely to be only weak Civilizations.
Ella even suspected they had already dispatched warships to scout the area.
Ella believed that even alien Civilizations understood the principle that indecisiveness leads to trouble.
However, Ella still underestimated the swiftness of the Destiny Ring Star's actions.
According to Jin Farui's information, in the fifth year of the Mirror Civilization's expansion, the Flying Civilization initiated its migration plan, and the entire Civilization began large-scale movements.
As an outsider, Jin Farui was asked to convert to the Qiluo Clan, and he quickly became a member of the Qiluo Clan.
After becoming a Qiluo Clan member, he gained access to many confidential pieces of information.
The first piece of information he obtained, which could be said to be common knowledge within the Flying Civilization, and even the entire Destiny Ring Star, was about the “Dream Civilization.”
This was completely public within the Destiny Ring Star, not a secret at all.
Because it simply couldn't be suppressed.
And the information about the “Dream Civilization” also made Ella understand why the Flying Civilization was in such a hurry to invade them.
Indeed, the Silver Heart battlefield had already begun, and they believed it had entered its later stages.
But after all, even in the later stages, it was still estimated to be a long time until the end.
What truly pushed the Flying Civilization to initiate the war was the “Dream Civilization” arriving from another dimension.
The Dream Civilization is essentially a Civilization of the same type as the current Silk Civilization.
Both are invisible Civilizations.
Moreover, the Dream Civilization's own strength is clearly more powerful and terrifying than the Silk Civilization.
Because the Dream Civilization is completing the process of materializing from dreams into reality.
The interior of the Destiny Ring Star was already being attacked by “Dream warships.”
Even crossing dimensions, the strength of those “Dream warships” surpassed that of the Destiny Ring Star's warships.
If not for their extremely small numbers, it was widely believed within the Destiny Ring Star that most of the Civilizations there, especially the Flying Civilization, Excavator Civilization, and Advancing Civilization near the “Dream World,” would have long ceased to exist.
“The horror of Dream erosion lies in its stealthiness.”
“The Flying Civilization used every method to find traces left by the dream in the real world, but found nothing.”
“According to records, the former diplomat Yan Xia and the Flying Civilization's Bo Jue Walton may have fallen into the Dream World and never returned.”
Each piece of information transmitted by Jin Farui helped Ella solve the puzzle.
Actually, Ella had considered the sudden disappearance of Yan Xia's clone on the Flying Civilization's side at that time.
Before that, Yan Xia had already begun to study the Dimension Channel.
At that time, the Flying Civilization had no need to break ties with Human Civilization.
And facts proved this to be true.
The Flying Civilization waited a long time afterward before deciding to attack Human Civilization.
Before that, the Flying Civilization had already begun large-scale commercial activities within Human Civilization.
The sudden change not only caused Human Civilization to lose its bridge to the Flying Civilization but also caused the Flying Civilization itself heavy losses.
Ella guessed that it might have been an accident.
But there was a lack of crucial evidence.
And the Flying Civilization's reaction afterward was also very strange.
They never mentioned anything about the Dimension Channel.
“The Dream Civilization is currently entering a period of rapid expansion, and the Destiny Ring Star doesn't know what's going on.”
“However, based on the information Yan Xia obtained from the Petrochemical Civilization, I can deduce that the Dimension War has truly begun, and the Dream Civilization has finally started its actions.”
“Why choose this time?”
Ella asked herself.
Logically speaking, for the Dream Civilization to reach the disk means it has given up on competing for dominance of the Milky Way, at least in the first stage.
After calculation, it believed that the greatest possibility was that the Dream Civilization wanted to make a big profit before leaving.
Using the Dimension Channel to extract dimensional information.
And war was merely a process.
War could allow them to understand information about other dimensional Civilizations more quickly, accelerating their understanding of dimensions.
They wanted to participate in the second stage of the struggle for dominance!
“All of this must be based on the premise that the Dream Civilization is indeed a top-tier Civilization.”
“From the current situation, the probability is very high.”
Through these events, Ella vaguely felt that the chaotic period of the Milky Way should be starting now.
And could Human Civilization withstand these pressures?
The answer!
Unknown!
It didn't know, couldn't know, and even didn't want to know.
That was an exploration of fate, and whether in fictional works or in reality, doing so often only brought misfortune.
“Causality, a forbidden weapon.”
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