Unlike the composure and confidence the Sea Mirror Woman had displayed when Saine first met her at that hidden Time-Space Rules node back then,
the Sea Mirror Woman, now under siege, looked truly bedraggled.
The water-blue Rule Halo around her whole body had dimmed considerably, and several scraps torn loose by colliding rules clung to her robes.
Even the hair she normally kept impeccably arranged had several loose strands plastered against her cheeks, while the exhaustion in her eyes was impossible to hide.
The primary reason the Sea Mirror Woman had fallen into such a sorry state stemmed from the Crimson Flame Civilization's recent full-scale withdrawal from the frontline battlefield.
Originally, the Sea Mirror Woman had only been facing one enemy Level-11 Strong Practitioner.
Although her realm was slightly lower than her opponent's by one Minor Realm,
with the support of her own Time-Space Rules and her exquisite control over Water Element Rules, the Sea Mirror Woman had been able to fight them evenly, even occasionally gaining a slight advantage.
But as the Crimson Flame Fire God of the Crimson Flame Civilization, along with the four Level-11 Strong Practitioners under his command, rapidly withdrew from the Dimension Battlefield frontline,
the war pressure that had originally been shared by both sides abruptly shifted entirely onto the Water Mirror Civilization.
Moreover, after the Dimension War had raged for so many years, the Dark Universe Time-Space side was clearly feeling somewhat stifled as well.
With two Level-11 Beings from the Dark Universe Time-Space camp already having fallen before and after, Dark Universe Time-Space wanted to launch a heavy counterattack this time, kill an enemy Level-11 Being, and use that victory to raise its own morale.
However, the Powerful Beings of the Destruction Divine Kingdom were not opponents the Dark Universe Time-Space Expeditionary Army