Not long after Saine restarted his light-element experiments, an extremely unusual fluctuation of Time Rules came from the depths of Gear Time-Space.
At first, it was only the time scale of one mechanical star region that showed the faintest offset.
The mechanical factories in that star region had clearly operated for only one standard gear year.
But when the Sky Net Central Hub recovered the data, it discovered that the core wear on several production lines had already approached the state they would be in after three years of operation.
At the same time, in another low-level plane not far from that star region, the Time Flow Rate changed in the opposite direction.
The living beings inside the plane barely sensed anything abnormal.
Nearly ten years had passed in the outside world, yet time within that plane had only moved forward by a few months.
Similar situations then began appearing in many areas of Gear Time-Space.
These temporal disorders did not cause any great disaster.
But the area they covered grew wider and wider, and the patterns of change grew more and more complex.
The Sky Net nodes responsible for monitoring the homeland rules of Gear Time-Space quickly delivered the news to Saine.
Saine only glanced at it before he knew what was going on.
Alarm Clock Girl was about to break through!
In the central region of Gear Time-Space, the illusory image of a Giant Clock Dial stretched across the starry sky.
Alarm Clock Girl sat at the center of the clock dial, with no legions stationed around her.
Only part of the upper echelon of Gear Clockwork Civilization remained at an extremely distant place to observe.
Every hand on the Giant Clock Dial was rotating at a different speed.
Some hands moved so fast that only afterimages