Saine reached the battlefield with remarkable speed. After all, this was the Mechanical Civilization's home ground.
As the defending side, the Mechanical Civilization he led already held the geographical advantage and could always exploit its home environment to gain an extra edge.
Seeing that he had failed to catch the Mechanical Civilization off guard and that his original ambush plan had fallen through completely, Agulos simply abandoned his battle arrangements against the Lord of Green Cang Mountain.
He refocused his gaze, fixing it firmly on Saine and the God of Machines.
Saine was in no hurry to fuse with the God of Machines. To Agulos, that attitude was nothing short of an outrageously arrogant provocation.
Yet it was precisely because Saine had not entered his fusion state that Agulos could see what he truly looked like without his mechanical enhancements.
Compared with the grotesque forms and hideous appearances so common among the creatures of Evil Swamp Time-Space, Saine was undeniably striking.
As the Leader of Mechanical Civilization, he had once been a True Spirit Magician from the Wizard Civilization. He combined the cold austerity of the Mechanical Race with a mage's elegance, his features handsome and his bearing upright.
Most notably, his rational eyes always held a glimmer of wisdom that seemed to see through everything. That was what most clearly distinguished him from the other practitioners of his level.
Agulos was already profoundly narcissistic, a trait that exposed the sheer extremity of his conceit.
He had once shamelessly proclaimed himself the "most handsome man" among the Evil Swamp Time-Space Level-12 Strong Practitioners. Even though others were more popular by the aesthetic standards of Evil Swamp Time-Space, he never cared what anyone else thought.
As he watched Saine fly into this Star Territory Battlefield, he nodded with affected composure, praising