Five billion prisoners, that number was nearly a quarter of the total imperial citizens in the empire, and all of them were now the empire's responsibility.The reason many countries directly killed prisoners of war or elected to massacre villages instead of capturing them was because a human is very difficult to keep alive, and even more so when they are prisoners, as they are now your full responsibility. This meant the empire had to field a large enough logistics force to be able to feed, clothe, and contain five billion prisoners on a daily basis. The situation was further complicated by the fact that the five billion prisoners were not from the same civilization, meaning they couldn’t all be fed or kept in the same conditions. Each civilization had different nutritional, dietary, and even environmental requirements, so the logistics had to take that into consideration.It would be a nightmare for any civilization to pull it off, even more so without any problems occurring that c

A few hours later, a letter with the Emperor's seal was sent to everyone inside the VR, with a similar one being sent to all of the top ten civilizations still free.It was quite long and got directly to the point, but anyone who read it would have most of their focus on a single paragraph: [We ought to end this one way or another, as only one of us can come out as a victor. To avoid needless bloodshed and the risk of your civilizations being reduced in number to the point of extinction, the Emperor gives you an imperial week to think and come to a decision to surrender. If you don’t surrender by then, we will destroy a random star system of high importance every five hours until you surrender or our patience runs out, and we go ahead with a total invasion, which will be brutal and undeserving to your people, who can live prosperously under the Terra Empire's leadership. Don’t let your arrogance or hunger for power lead to the humiliation of your civilization in front of those you onc

The moment the top ten started receiving updates of what was happening in one of the Yrall Coalition's star systems and saw it with their own eyes, they were shocked. After they recollected themselves from the surprise of both the empire's capability and the horror of the realization that the empire had such a means of attack in place for who knows how long, they issued orders for all robots to be collected and dismantled in all of their star systems to ensure such an attack would not happen again.Deactivation codes were sent out en masse from the robot manufacturers, immediately shutting down nearly all robots in those star systems. Ships were then sent to collect them for immediate destruction, despite knowing the catastrophe that would result from this action. They made the decision because the alternative was worse than the damage they were already experiencing.The Yrall Coalition suffered the most damage, as they used robots in the majority of their production bases. Using robo

It was a pandemic, a hell targeted specifically at them. With each scan they performed on the remaining soldiers, they came to the realization that nearly all of them carried the virus that was deadly to the monsters the Erythians depended on to fight. With each passing second, millions of their monsters continued to die as they frantically searched for a mana signal that would command the virus to stop and return to its passive form.It was their best solution at the moment. The time it took for the virus to go from activation to incapacitating a monster was very short, and researching and producing a vaccine would take months, if not years. By the time that route could provide a viable solution, they would have already lost all of their available monsters.It was the worst attack ever perpetrated against the Erythians. They realized the empire had most definitely used the knowledge the Erythians themselves had provided to learn about and specifically target only the monsters they we

“So we are confident that they are not going to create the final bonding agent in the same way they converted some obscure chemicals into the final chemical they wanted, as they did during the attack on the Erythians?” the leader heading the meeting asked the scientist amidst the chaotic mental network, immediately silencing it.“We can’t say for sure that there is no way for them to forcefully synthesize the binding chemical through multiple compounds, each producing chemicals which then combine to produce the binding chemical after two or more rounds of different chemicals combining. But discovering that is going to be nearly impossible, as there are more than ten thousand different chemicals in our bodies, and if you include external chemicals that enter our bodies, the number of possible mixtures increases exponentially. That is not counting if their synthesizing method includes the external atmosphere as a factor as well, so it is very difficult to say at the moment. We don’t ha