A sure and steady super-evolution in both offense and defense.
For offense, there was the area-effect Fourth Phase Transition Strike. Though using the thing might kill their allies too, it was truly powerful!
That was a killer weapon capable of wiping out even a veteran Cosmic Civilization in one wave.
Humanity had once observed the situation within the Fourth Phase Transition Zone. Although they had not collected much data at the time, by putting together all kinds of subsequent information, they roughly knew that if one wanted to defend against this thing, one at least had to understand the mechanism of the fourth phase transition.
Otherwise, no Rule Shield would be of any use. It would directly disintegrate you at the level of mechanism.
Of course, that could not be stated in such absolute terms. After all, the mechanism's direct target was the Electromagnetic Force, splitting the Electromagnetic Force into the Electric Force and magnetic force, so if one used a shield that did not involve the Electromagnetic Force, it should still be able to resist it somewhat.
The problem was that after the fourth phase transition, there was also a series of chain reactions. Those were rules that changed the entire nature of the existing universe. The Four Fundamental Forces became the Five Fundamental Forces, and even Dark Matter, which had originally been affected only by Gravity, would undergo a phase transition along with it.
Humanity did not know what the Dark Matter phase transition was like, whether it was some kind of symmetry breaking or some kind of underlying cosmic mechanism, but they did know that after Dark Matter underwent its phase transition, it would become two kinds of matter in the New World: one was Electric Matter, and the other was Magnetic Matter.
They were respectively controlled