The Blue-eyed Octopus and Miniature Lizard of Evil Swamp Time-Space had eyes full of greed and stubborn resolve. They had clearly made up their minds to seize their share of the dimension war's spoils on the Gear Time-Space Battlefield, amid the roar of metal and time-space turbulence.
That was only natural. After all, the two powerhouses had spent years painstakingly developing countless Vassal Civilizations and elite Combat Legions under their command, then crossed layer upon layer of dimensional barriers on a long expedition to reach this place. They had certainly not come just to take a beating from Gear Time-Space's native forces and dimensional civilizations, then slink off the battlefield without complaint.
The real reason these two Evil Swamp Time-Space Level-12 Temple Lords refused to give up or retreat so easily could be traced back to their previous clash on the Dimension Battlefield.
In that fierce battle, Mechanical God Emperor Saine, Gear Time-Space's foremost powerhouse, had not personally confronted them. The ones who had fought the Blue-eyed Octopus and Miniature Lizard were merely the Alarm Clock Girl of the Time Clock Civilization under Gear Time-Space, and Thomas, another of its top combatants.
Precisely because they had never truly faced Mechanical God Emperor Saine or personally experienced the terrifying pressure he exerted while controlling his Mechanical God Rule True Body, the two Level-12 Temple Lords had gravely misjudged his true strength. Worse still, they had blindly overestimated their own power far beyond reality.
As the Blue-eyed Octopus and Miniature Lizard saw it, the torrent of Endless Light energy that Mechanical God Emperor Saine had suddenly unleashed on the Dimensional Plane Battlefield had rivaled an all-out strike from a Level-12 Peak being. Such a world-destroying attack could not possibly be sustained for long, much less unleashed repeatedly in quick succession.
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