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Chapter 874: Chapter 476: Racing to Claim Land

Chapter 874: Chapter 476: Racing to Claim Land

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After the brief conversation between Gu Hang and Erso had ended, the two largest military and political forces within the Dragonhawk Star Domain had ceased any high-level communication.

This was a dangerous situation.

It was such an obvious situation that anyone in the Dragonhawk Star Domain who was even slightly in the know could sense an unusual scent in the air, causing countless people to worry and even tremble with fear.

The Iron-Tooth Clan had just been defeated on a grand scale, and countless worlds were still engulfed in the flames of war—the war had not yet ended. And now, the two greatest war heroes were turning against each other, ready to draw their swords?

How could this not make people shiver with fear?

However, although there were irreconcilable core contradictions between the Alliance and the Fury Flame Battle Group, and their relationship was poor, they actually had no intention of fighting each other directly—at least not imminently.

Both parties, after all, were part of the Empire. No matter how much they despised each other, wishing death upon the other, employing ruthless underground tactics, and sparing no insult in their words, they could not truly face each other with knives and guns on the battlefield.

If it came to that, there was a very clear term for it:

Civil war.

And once a civil war broke out, the nature of the conflict would immediately become exceedingly foul, something the Central Government of the Empire absolutely could not tolerate; it was beyond the bottom line.

The likelihood of the two sides going to war directly wasn’t actually that high.

Gu Hang had no intention of firing the first shot.

The high political risk forced him to proceed with caution.

Erso, on the other side, likely felt roughly the same way.

However, no one could completely guarantee that accidents wouldn’t happen.

The crux of the issue was that the probability of the armies from both sides encountering each other was still quite high.

Titus had been killed, and the main force of the Green Skins had been almost entirely annihilated. According to the latest report provided to Gu Hang by the intelligence department of the Alliance, they believed that there were still around twenty billion Green Skins within the entire Dragonhawk Star Domain, apart from the four Star Sectors completely occupied by the Green Skins.

This was an estimated data, the specifics of which no one could currently clarify. But the Alliance’s intelligence department believed this data to be quite reliable, without orders of magnitude deviation from the actual situation.

These Green Skins, scattered across various worlds throughout the Star Domain, were more numerous in some places and less so in others. Yet, most of these worlds invaded by the Green Skins had not fully escaped their influence.

On some poorer planets, the human population might total just a few hundred million, with underdeveloped productivity, not to mention wealth or power. On such planets, a few million Green Skins posed a problem beyond their capability to resolve.

And on some more powerful worlds, facing hundreds of millions, or even billions of Green Skins also caused significant headaches.

These planets, relying solely on their own strength, found it hard to resist the crisis brought by these Green Skins.

At this time, external assistance was needed.

There were three factions currently capable of addressing this in the entire Star Domain.

The Alliance, the Fury Flame Battle Group, and the Mingyang Sect of the Sect of Mechanics.

The Mingyang Sect could be set aside for now. Among the three, the Mingyang Sect was the weakest; their core territories were damaged in the war, and their losses were substantial throughout the conflict.

Also, the Sect of Mechanics generally chose not to get involved in such matters and were not keen on expanding their territory. These Oil Heads, sticking to their small portion of land on the Foundry World, engaged in scientific research, faith, and production. The manpower and resources they needed could always be acquired from the outside world through trade; no one would refuse or reject a Foundry World as a partner.

Their involvement in this massacre against the Green Skins was purely because the Green Skins threatened their existence, coupled with hatred.

In actual operations, the Mingyang Sect focused mainly on cleaning up in the Steel Fire Dragon Star Sector where Jindi Star was located, as well as in the Tamer Sector and Dragon Pass Sector, which hosted several important resource sites for the Mingyang Sect.

In other places, they lacked the strength and interest to compete.

Of course, no one would provoke them either.

The Protection Army of the Mingyang Sect had once briefly been part of the Allied Forces, under the command of the Furyflame Battalion Commander Erso. But after the war had ended, the Sages of the Mingyang Sect took back military command and went their separate ways.

As far as Erso was concerned, although he would have liked to attach the Mingyang Sect to his chariot—an important part