When the Sword Demon struck again, no one present sensed anything unusual. Only Water Ice Holy Venerable, directly targeted by the Sword Demon's blade, felt an endless, overwhelming pressure descend upon him in an instant.
Saine, who had been paying attention to this battlefield, could not help but furrow his brow slightly.
Through his direct perception, Saine likewise detected no abnormalities.
However, Saine's Magic Cube had continuously extended its rule probes, enveloping the entire main battlefield around them. At the same time, Skynet's data streams were constantly helping him analyze the various conditions of the current main battlefield.
This seemed to have allowed Saine's Magic Cube to catch something. Even within the many data streams displayed by Skynet, a faint trace of subtle discrepancy emerged.
The Mages of the Wizard World were all exceedingly rigorous Truth Explorers. This tiny discrepancy might have seemed insignificant, but once Saine focused all his attention upon it, the look in his eyes grew increasingly grave.
As the controller of both the Magic Cube and Skynet, Saine naturally understood that even the most precise data contained errors or random values. This argument happened to validate the uncertainty of the Mechanical Civilization.
The Mechanical Civilization under Saine's command was not made up entirely of intelligent beings that acted strictly according to orders and programs.
At times, that single random value appearing within a robot's instructions was instead the most captivating gleam of thought in this vast starry universe and among intelligent races.
Yet after carefully examining the random values before him, the grave expression on Saine's face deepened, because the random values that had appeared did not seem to have formed naturally.
"Something's wrong. Something must have happened," Saine said in a low voice.
"It's just that I can't see what it is yet."
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