CHAPTER 363: CHAPTER 362: THE BATTLE FOR THE HIGHEST POINT

Constant Star Lu Chen ceased the Crown Hole Beam, and the brilliant galaxy that spanned ten light-years gradually vanished.

The Electromagnetic Civilization that had already re-assembled into a giant star system quickly seized this opportunity to approach the Wandering Alliance and, to prevent Constant Star Lu Chen from using the long-range Crown Hole Beam to bomb their side again, Constant Star Super Thought launched a maximum Energy Level Crown Hole Radiation, and made the Electromagnetic Civilization’s Planet Flying Device open a Space Wormhole, delivering the Crown Hole Radiation beam, which was seven million kilometers thick, to the front, performing a cross-range strike and harassment on the Wandering Alliance.

This was the only weapon combination available to the Electromagnetic Civilization that could reach the Wandering Alliance.

If talking about Energy Weapons alone, neither the Crown Hole Radiation from Constant Star Super Thought nor the Unified Power Beam from Electromagnetic Super Man and others could achieve a range of ten light-years.

The Wandering Alliance was well aware of this fact, hence the scientists inside the Wandering Base had been closely monitoring the retaliation from the Electromagnetic Civilization. Upon detecting the use of a combined strike from the Electromagnetic Civilization, the scientists accurately calculated the delivery coordinates of the Electromagnetic Civilization based on the fluctuation of spatial nodes before time.

About 0.2 light-years away at a diagonal angle in the Wandering Star System.

Upon obtaining this coordinate, Constant Star Lu Chen, without hesitance, launched a Crown Hole Radiation beam.

When the Crown Hole Radiation fired by Lu Chen reached that spatial coordinate, a Space Wormhole just happened to form there, and an intriguing scene occurred as the Crown Hole Radiation shot by Lu Chen went straight into the Space Wormhole, violently colliding with the Crown Hole Radiation being emitted inside.

Since Constant Star Lu Chen and Constant Star Super Thought had nearly the same mass, the Energy Levels of their launched Crown Hole Radiations were very similar. Therefore, the two similarly powerful Crown Hole Radiations collided right at the mouth of the wormhole, causing a severe explosion that obliterated the Space Wormhole instantly, unleashing an unmatched energy storm, comparable to a Supernova Explosion!

After the explosion subsided, space returned to calm, with two mammoth star systems facing each other from a distance!

At this moment, with less than a light-year separating the Wandering Star System and the Electromagnetic Star System, the fighting spirit of both sides was extremely high, filling the star-space between the two giant star systems with an explosive atmosphere!

Suddenly, Constant Star Super Thought from the Electromagnetic Civilization sent a message of forceful declaration of war: "Wandering Alliance, today marks your doom, you must pay for your actions, and for those lives you have taken!"

"Although I understand that you want to seize the moral high ground of this war, providing a righteous reason within your civilization, you are too shameless, completely disregarding the facts! It was clearly you who attacked us first, we were merely defending ourselves." Constant Star Lu Chen retorted, "Concerning the casualties in war, those are inevitable, and I believe you understand this as well. Besides, we have not committed genocide against your Electromagnetic Civilization, some of your captives are still alive within our ranks, even receiving good treatment, which I hope can serve as a basis for our negotiations."

Constant Star Lu Chen had not forgotten about those captives from the Electromagnetic Civilization.

He initially didn’t bring it up for two reasons: first, the timing was not right; second, with Electromagnetic Civilization’s aggressive approach, if the Wandering Alliance didn’t show some strength to deter them, there would be no chance for dialogue. Having wandered the Universe for so long, Constant Star Lu Chen was well aware that in this Universe, strength is the only thing recognized—if you have the strength, others will negotiate with you; otherwise, you only face their guns and cannons.

"How do you intend to negotiate?" Constant Star Super Thought was indeed a bit surprised.

Lu Chen said, "Quite simple, we’ll return the captives to you, and we cancel all debts of grudges between us. Although we are currently in the midst of a huge crisis with the Universe halting its expansion, it’s normal for each civilization to plunder each other, but the risks of plundering are also something each civilization needs to consider—don’t fall prey while attempting to plunder. Our goals differ from yours, feel free to plunder the materials in this space, but we only wish to head towards the Cosmic Center; these objectives don’t conflict. If you agree, then we can avoid warfare between us; if not, then we have no choice but to go to war. Regarding your captives, they were not killed by us but rather by your own doing!"

Listening to Constant Star Lu Chen, Constant Star Super Thought was quite taken aback.

He was mainly astonished by Constant Star Lu Chen’s negotiation skills, unexpectedly reversing the situation with just casual conversation, now not only causing the moral high ground to be lost but also how to decide on the fate of their compatriots’ lives, burdening the Electromagnetic Civilization.

"If you truly have sincerity, then release our captives first. Precondition for peaceful dialogue is equality, only then can both sides make equal decisions, if one party holds all the chips, it inevitably leads to unfair dialogue with the other side often being forced to compromise, there’s no fairness to speak of."

These words were Constant Star Super Thought’s response after deep reflection.

He grasped onto one definition, fully negating the actions of the Wandering Alliance with skill.

Moreover, in his heart, he didn’t actually care about the lives of those captives; after all, the population of the Electromagnetic Civilization is so vast that the death or survival of a few doesn’t impact him, so he certainly wouldn’t want to get tied down for a few captives, potentially affecting the overall interests of the Electromagnetic Civilization.

Lu Chen said, "Indeed, there’s no fairness, and we didn’t come to talk about fairness. Otherwise, what we should be discussing is why your civilization could evolve within the Star Zone into a civilization, into an Electromagnetic Super Man civilization, while other civilizations can only face hardships trying to develop in the materially scarce Sky Zone Universe? Also, about those lower Civilization Levels you plundered and annihilated without letting them develop to the same Civilization Level as you— isn’t that quite unfair?"

"..."

This conversation, as one could imagine, saw both sides sticking to their points, unwilling to back down for the benefit of their own interests, and naturally, the negotiation fell apart!

In particular, Constant Star Lu Chen didn’t hold much hope for this conversation initially; he just thought of trying since they had captives, it would be great if successful, and no harm done if not.

Therefore, whether it was Constant Star Lu Chen or Constant Star Super Thought, neither wasted further words.

Their minds were set on war from the start.

They also understood that under the crisis of the Universe stopping its expansion, expecting the other side to give up their benefits was unrealistic. Only through war could the decision be made, where victory would grant the right to choose.

Ultimately, after a brief unsuccessful dialogue, both the Wandering Alliance led by Constant Star Lu Chen and the Electromagnetic Civilization led by Constant Star Super Thought began mobilizing their military forces, arranging tactical deployments, and subsequently launched the most fierce firepower assault against each other, pushing the warfare between the two civilizations to its climax!