Each one valuable in its own right!! And they were gone just like that!! If I do not crush you humans to bits, I am no longer a member of the Star Fleet!!" the Emperor swore.
And he wasn't the only one who felt a sharp sting of pain in his chest! There were the leaders of the Alchemy Association and the other coalition powers whose secret forces had made up the Hegemony fleet.
While the Star Empire and, even more so, the Alchemy Association bore the brunt of the losses, the other newly promoted Tier 1 powers and those with lower accumulation felt an even greater pain!
Anything they lost was like a sting of poison to them! After all, these were shadow forces that they had invested a huge amount of resources into, and they were gone just like that!!
This directly weakened their foundations. For some, it was even worse—like the Sun Republic, the Bright Light Kingdom, and the Snow Fire Empire! These were newly promoted Tier 1—or, in terms of the universal structure, Tier 3—powers...
