At this moment, every inch of starry territory within the new region of the Time Clock Civilization had been swallowed by the blazing flames of war. As far as the eye could see stood Gear Element buildings blanketed in smoke and dust.
In terms of civilizational form, although the Time Clock Civilization firmly held first place in overall strength among the native world civilizations of Gear Time-Space, it was unquestionably the strongest native civilization.
Yet the Clock-type Gear Beings belonging to this civilization had living quarters utterly different in style from those of the Qihuang Castle Civilization.
The beings of the Qihuang Castle Civilization devoted themselves to constructing countless magnificent castle-type buildings within their home planet territories. Those soaring castles stood in dense ranks, displaying the civilization's profundity and majesty.
Yet in the starry skies of the Time Clock Civilization, the most numerous and eye-catching structures were special clock buildings shrouded in deep blue phantoms and formed into neat cylinders. They stood silently amid the sea of stars, carrying an aloof and mysterious aura of their own.
Even before this new region had been ravaged by such brutal flames of war, when it had still retained its peaceful original appearance, the most common and iconic sound throughout this Star Sector had been the evenly paced, rising-and-falling "tick-tock, tick-tock" of mechanical clocks turning. The sound permeated every corner of the entire Star Sector, as though time itself were whispering softly.
In truth, the label of the Time Clock Civilization within Gear Time-Space had never been "powerful," but rather a bone-deep "mystery."
This mystery was not limited to foreign visitors from Different Dimensional Planes. Even to every other native biological race within Gear Time-Space, it was equally full of the unknown and perplexity.
Especially compared with the highly expansionist Qihuang Castle Civilization,