Saine's battle with the Thebes Demon Emperor ultimately ended in Saine's victory.
The Thebes Demon Emperor's path of source rules was indeed comprehensive.
But Saine was even more comprehensive.
Body tempering, Ash Magic, machinery, the Profound Truths of Light—Saine lacked none of them. With several secret treasures and the rule-enhancement provided by Challenger's Bell, there was simply no reason he should lose.
But victory in a duel did not mean the situation in the Wings of Light Star Territory war zone would be rewritten because of it.
The Evil Tide Civilization's invasion of the Wizard Star Region relied on its formidable strength.
That strength lay both in the power of its individuals and in the overwhelming advantage of its vast numbers.
And at present, the Wizard Civilization's greatest shortcoming was precisely its numbers...
After Saine and the others had held fast on the Light Encounter Plane for more than four hundred years, they finally received a retreat order from the Wizard Civilization Combat Command.
It was not that Saine and the others could no longer hold the line. Rather, the Wizard Civilization Combat Command had taken into account the conditions across every war zone, as well as the status of the Wizard Civilization Dominators on the corresponding battlefields.
Holding back the Evil Tide crisis was one thing, but the Wizard Civilization's upper echelons still hoped that more of its powerful figures would not perish tragically at the very beginning of this Civilization War.
The Federation Super Quantum Computer had calculated that the Wizard Civilization had only a 36.78% chance of withstanding the Evil Tide crisis.
Only a very small number of people among the Wizard Civilization's upper echelons knew of this figure.
With even less than a 40% chance, the war between the Evil Tide and the Wizards was