Over in Light Universe Time-Space, the recent war had grown increasingly fierce. Flames of war swept across the plains, smoke blanketed the entire Star Sector, and clashes between all sides had nearly torn apart the barriers of time-space.
Likewise, Gear Time-Space had never truly been peaceful during the past two thousand years.
Although Saine had remained immersed in his private laboratory throughout those long years, single-mindedly exploring the Truth Arcana that fascinated him and pursuing the ultimate secrets of merging magic and machinery, the sealed space of his laboratory could not completely shut out the clamor of the outside world. From time to time, he still heard urgent reports from the frontline battlefield. News of slaughter, death, and steadfast defense drifted quietly into his focused world like scattered dust.
Agulos and the other high-level strong practitioners of Evil Swamp Time-Space seemed to have truly felt the present strength of Mechanical Civilization during the last cross-time-space war—that formidable power had indeed exceeded their expectations by far, vastly surpassing Evil Swamp Time-Space's prior assessment of Mechanical Civilization.
What made them even more wary was that Mechanical Civilization's foundation went far beyond that. It still concealed trump cards that even these high-level strong practitioners of Evil Swamp Time-Space had failed to uncover, and there might even be unknown external forces supporting it.
Those uncertainties forced Evil Swamp Time-Space's upper echelon to reassess the war situation.
Thus, after several rounds of intense communication and discussion, Evil Swamp Time-Space's higher-ups finally reached a consensus. They decided to shift the main focus of the coming war toward the Time Clock Civilization war zone, as well as the broader, unexplored regions within Gear Time-Space. They sought to break the current deadlock and expand Evil Swamp Time-Space's invasion territory.
At first, Star Mark, who possessed Level-12 Late-Stage strength,