The Demon Cave Time-Space Battlefield continued for several hundred more years.
Over those centuries, more than half of the Origin Channels the Demon Cave Master could draw upon had already been severed by Saine and the others.
At the very beginning, the Demon Cave Master could draw varying degrees of Source Power from the surviving rifts scattered throughout the Demon Cave Time-Space.
Even though the Demon Cave Time-Space had already fallen into utter ruin, he could still rely on the authority of a Level-13 Lord of Dimension to squeeze the last remaining strength from its deep rule structure.
But with Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, Saine, the Despair Matriarch, the Alarm Clock Girl, and the others suppressing him over the long term, coupled with the Demon Cave Time-Space Homeland Civilization's constant loss of cohesion, the channels the Demon Cave Master could call upon grew fewer and fewer.
By the past several hundred years, the effective Origin Channels the Sky Net Central Hub could confirm had dwindled to a mere dozen or so.
And precisely because their number had decreased, it instead became easier for Saine to discover anomalies among those channels.
On this day, in the depths of the Cube Time-Space, Wall-E sent Saine three consecutive high-risk sample warnings.
The warnings came from several Demon Cave Master Rule Fragments that had long since been sealed away.
For many years, these fragments had all remained in a low-activity state.
But during one of the Demon Cave Master's attempts to mobilize the homeland origin, they simultaneously showed an extremely faint temporal deviation.
This deviation was very strange. It was unlike ordinary spatial backflow, nor was it like the rift resonance the Demon Cave Master had displayed in his previous escapes.
It was more like a response deliberately hidden deep within a Time