The countdown hanging in the sky began to flicker violently at that moment, finally stabilizing at:
00:00
Then it completely shattered.
Would the Mechanical God really wait patiently for the Ruins to draw closer bit by bit and fully descend, waiting for the countdown to end naturally?
Now, He Ao had his answer.
No.
No one was a fool. The Mechanical God would not wait for the final hour to pass and give He Ao more time to prepare.
Or rather, that slow approach had all been "preparation" for this very "sprint"—a "sedative" meant to numb the enemy.
It had prepared all of this long ago. It had merely been waiting for this moment to tear open the void and force through a passage leading to the Main World.
As He Ao watched, a gigantic Starlight Figure appeared behind the gray-white planet in the sky. It seemed to be a gathering of countless stars, obscuring the edges of the sky that the gray-white planet did not cover.
The enormous Starlight Figure lowered its head, its gaze sweeping over the land below.
Its expression was calm and natural, without the slightest change, as if it were watching a nest of boiling ants march toward their final destruction.
That was the Pseudo-God the Mechanical God had left behind in the Ruins—"Star Shadow."
"Looks like the mechanical side is even more anxious than we estimated."
The White-Clad Youth below raised his head and looked at He Ao. His tone remained calm and gentle, as if nothing that had happened so far had exceeded his expectations.
"What are you going to do next? You have a very brief window in which you can sacrifice that small portion of people and prolong this world's existence, but that window is extremely short."
He watched