As the war machines gathered at the Base Ruins, the Demons and aberrations roaming the wasteland in the "Battlefield Time-Space," so long as they had not been inspected by the Great Sun Chains or destroyed by the impact of the earlier collision, advanced ahead of them toward the massive shadow beyond the mist.
When Snake Tongue stood at the edge of an engineering machine's operating area, at the boundary of the "Battlefield Time-Space," what she sensed was this:
The mist was expanding, yet also shrinking.
The so-called "expansion" meant that the chaotic junction connecting the "Battlefield Time-Space," the shattered time-space of the Mist Labyrinth, and the collective dreams of countless people was spreading outward under the command of some will.
It was a very cunning tactic.
If they advanced with the "Battlefield Time-Space," which possessed definite rules, as the core, it would bring nothing more than another collision. But if they deliberately used the mist outside, placing this Buffer Zone—where certainty and uncertainty coexisted, with a certain degree of flexibility—in front of them, the situation changed.
The collision between the "Battlefield Time-Space" and the "Ice Mountain" continued, but even as they collided, infiltration was taking place.
The outer mist covered part of the "Ice Mountain" first, actively radiating the rules of the "Battlefield Time-Space" and allowing the unique creations of this plane to pass through the Buffer Zone of rules and invade deeper into the "Ice Mountain."
During the mist's expansion, the Demons and aberrations that entered first were, after all, special troop types produced by the "Battlefield Time-Space." Having undergone countless inspections by the Great Sun Chains, they represented indisputable plane laws.
Like units exploring the Fog of War in an RTS game, wherever they went, the outer mist fulfilled its mission and cleared away again. Thus, each cycle