The successful defense from the invasion of the tekvores caused the leaders of human civilization to heave a sigh of relief. The news of a thorough invasion had inspired terror in many a polity, especially of those nations closest to the Esocline Federation. The invading force contained enough firepower to annihilate any ordinary Sage-level powerhouse, making human civilization's doom an almost guaranteed certainty under normal circumstances.
There was only one reason that such an outcome had not unfolded.
"The Emperor of Harmony was right."
It was a collective realization that they had had.
If not for the Emperor of Harmony's decision to unilaterally usurp all Sages and absorb them into the Kandrian Empire, the Esocline Federation would undoubtedly have been destroyed or captured.
This was a chilling realization.
