<h4>Chapter 815: Stronger or Weaker</h4>
Everyone knew that without lips, the teeth would be exposed to the cold.
As a Rank Six being who had established its reputation for over a hundred thousand years, Tyrant Tiger King could see the immense pressure that the Magus Civilization’s invasion and their conquest of the Wild Gori World had brought to the Feral Beast Star Domain and its surrounding regions.
Their neighbor, the Blue Violet Star, had it pretty easy.
In the face of impending threats, it quickly surrendered and joined the Magus Alliance, dragging its vassal nes along with it.
While Blue Violet Star had the option of joining the Magus Alliance due to its long-standing alliance with the Magus Civilization’s Dragon Warlock n, the Feral Beast Star did not share the same fortune.
The Feral Beast Star had chosen a different backer—the Gant Federation.
Being caught between two powerful civilizations was, in many ways, a precarious situation.
Medium-sized nes like the Blue Violet Star and the Feral Beast Star could only choose to align themselves with one of these powers.
In the event of a conflict between these top-tier civilizations, they would likely be the first to suffer as the frontline.
The Blue Violet Star’s Violet Dragon and the Feral Beast Star’s Tyrant Tiger Kings were smart creatures.
Having gained insight into the broader workings of the Astral Realm, they recognized the limitations of their strengthpared to the might of greater civilizations.
The Wild Gori n, on the other hand, was a different case.
Obsessed with expansion and conquest, they often “bulldozed” their way through neighboring star domains.
Their eventual downfall was no surprise and could even be seen as inevitable!
While the Blue Violet Star and the Feral Beast Star had developed an awareness of top-tier civilizations like the Magus Civilization and the Gant Federation, the Wild Gori World, under the leadership of Wild Gori God, remained trapped in a state of reckless arrogance.
They had no real understanding of the opponents they faced or the sheer power of top-tier civilizations.
Although the Blue Violet Star’s Violet Dragons had never witnessed an overlord, nor had the Tyrant Tiger Kings of the Feral Beast Star encountered the Gant Federation’s Star Fleet that was capable of rivaling the power of an overlord, that did not prevent them from making educated guesses about the immense power these top-tier civilizations wielded.
The smarter these leaders were, the more they realized their own insignificance and the vast scale of the Astral Realm.
Those who boasted of their invincibility while only living in a small corner of the Astral Realm were the true fools.
Tyrant Tiger King was aware that the Gant Federation had dismissed Wild Gori God and the others, sending them back to their home star domain to fight again.
In its opinion, the federation was squeezing thest bit of value from Wild Gori God and its forces.
What Tyrant Tiger King did not expect was that Wild Gori God and the others would actually go through with it.
Then again, it should have known—this was precisely the kind of action that the Wild Gori God it knew would take.
If it were in Wild Gori God’s position, Tyrant Tiger King knew it would not have made the same choice.
It would have likely led the remaining Gori Gods and its army away from this star domain, seeking refuge in the depths of the starry sky to find a new ce to rebuild their lives.
With their power, seizing control of another low-level ne would have been rtively easy.
It was always better to live on than to perish.
It was this difference in personality that defined Tyrant Tiger King, Wild Gori God, and Violet Dragon God for who they were.
For tens of thousands of years, despite asional disputes, the three medium-sized world civilizations in this star domain had maintained a delicate bnce.
If any of their three civilizations were to ascend to the status of arge-sized world, Tyrant Tiger King and Violet Dragon God secretly believed it would most likely be the Wild Gori World.
In other words, Wild Gori God—whose strength wasparable to Tyrant Tiger King’s and perhaps slightly less than Violet Dragon God’s—was the only one among them with any real potential to be an overlord.
This potential was one reason why the Feral Beast Star and the Blue Violet Star had, whether intentionally or not, joined forces to ostracize the Wild Gori World.
They had even withheld vital information aboutrge-world civilizations and top-tier forces from the Wild Gori World.
Now, witnessing the decline of the Wild Gori World and the Wild Gori God, Tyrant Tiger King felt conflicted.
It was not entirely pleased even though Wild Gori God had spoken to him with disrespect many times.
“I don’t think that losing a few important Rank Four beings is going to hurt that top-tier civilization significantly. The Gant Federation’s move will only provoke the Magus Civilization and hasten their confrontation with it,” Tyrant Tiger King said to its subordinate.
“Hasn’t the Gant Federation secretly deployed several fleets to our Feral Beast Star Domain? There’s also a massive metal fortress hovering near my homene right now...” the Rank Five spotted beast godmented.
“Hmph! Relying on the charity and aid of other civilizations for your safety? It seems like the destruction of the Wild Gori World hasn’t opened your eyes yet,” Tyrant Tiger King sneered at its loyal but somewhat naive subordinate.
The Rank Five Jaguar God fell silent, not daring to respond.
One of the main reasons Jaguar God, despite being a Rank Five creature, had chosen to submit to Tyrant Tiger King’smand was its belief that Tyrant Tiger King was the most intelligent and strategic Rank Six being in the surrounding star domain.
Serving under such a powerful leader offered more security and stability than fighting alone.
Moreover, the Tyrant Tigers of the Feral Beast Star treated their subordinates well.
After reprimanding its subordinate, Tyrant Tiger King lifted its gaze to the depths of the starry sky, where Wild Gori God and the others had departed.
“Hopefully Wild Gori God and the others can hold out a few more years. If they really manage to survive for three to five years, there’s a chance that the Gant Federation might actually intervene in this war,” Tyrant Tiger King murmured.
It knew, however, that the odds were low.
The likelihood of Wild Gori God holding out for five years was slim, and the chances of the Gant Federationmitting troops were equally uncertain.
Such was the plight of the weak.
The reality was that the Gant Federation was not yet prepared for an all-out war with the Magus Civilization, just as the Magus Civilization itself was not ready for such arge-scale conflict.
After annexing and destroying the Rosen Dynasty Civilization, the Gant Federation was still working as quickly as they could to absorb Rosen Dynasty Civilization’s technological advancements, particrly in the fields of mecha and psychics.
While progress in thetter field was slow, the technological breakthroughs from the former were rapid and transformative.
The Gant Federation had recently developed super mechas with strengthparable to overlord beings.
Those mechas were still undergoing testing, but their potential was undeniable.
With a neighbor as powerful as the Magus Civilization, the Gant Federation had been under immense pressure.
Having reached the status of a top-tier civilization earlier than the Gant Federation, the Magus Worldmanded the Magus Alliance and extended its influence across numerous nes and star domains, possessing greater resources and reserves than the Gant Federation.
Whenparing the overall strength of these two top-tier civilizations, it was true that the Magus Civilization held a slight edge.
However, a slight advantage did not guarantee victory in the event of a direct conflict between these powerful entities.
War was inherently unpredictable, and the Magus Civilization, which emphasized cultivation and individual evolution, was fundamentally different from the Gant Federation, which focused on technological advancement and collective development.
Directparisons between them were difficult.
When the time came for a real battle, the oue was uncertain—both sides believed victory would be theirs.
One reason for the Gant Federation’s confidence was their recent acquisition of the Rosen Dynasty’s overlord-ss mecha manufacturing technology.
This advancement enabled the Gant Federation to field a vast fleet of super mechas with thebat capabilities of an overlord, potentially rivaling the Magus World’s overmages and overlords.
Moreover, technological civilizations like the Gant Federation had clear advantages in resource efficiency and mass war potential that traditional cultivation civilizations could scarcely rival.
If the Gant Federation chose to, they could scale up production across the heavy industry factories of their star domain, creating hundreds of millions of robot soldiers and fleets that far exceeded their current capabilities in a short span of time.
Even the Magus Civilization had to acknowledge and respect this capability.
The emergence of a Rank One mage in the Magus World required decades of training and significant resource investment.
By contrast, the Gant Federation could produce a robot warriorparable to a Rank One being simply by allocating sufficient resources to an automated factory module.
The production time for such a soldier in the federation’s assembly line nts was less than an hour.
This demonstrated the stark difference between the two top-tier civilizations at a foundational level.
Until an actual conflict erupted, no one could say with certainty which top civilization was stronger.
Technological civilizations also had their own vulnerabilities.
Their vast, ordinary poptions—numbering in the hundreds of trillions—were their greatest weakness.
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A single mage infiltrating a city on a popted by ordinary humans could wreak unimaginable havoc.
The forbidden magic wielded by mages of the Magus Civilization could be a nightmare for these poptions, especially with their ability to unleash natural disasters or call upon the undead.