Locke's will, like a jet-black Destruction Ripple, swiftly spread through every major battlefield in Dark Universe Time-Space.
The Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion advancing on the frontline stopped pushing deeper into the hinterland of Dark Universe Time-Space at once.
The star sectors already occupied by the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction entered a state of high alert in an extremely short time.
The Lightless Tomb Domain, the Death Star Sea, the Darkness Vortex, and more than ten Dark Universe star sectors of extremely high resource value immediately became the new defensive focus.
This was not a rout, but an exceptionally orderly strategic contraction!
One War Fortress after another from the Destruction Divine Kingdom began withdrawing to preset positions.
The Radiance Nodes released by the Eternal Day Time-Space Legion gradually shifted from attack mode into defense mode.
The Limitless Time-Space Legion used golden Rule Anchor nails to seal off several already-occupied high-value origin regions.
Right now, the busiest was still Mechanical Civilization.
Near the Darkness Vortex, tens of millions of mechanical units activated at the same time, and large numbers of mechanical fortresses were pushed into the occupied Dark Universe starry sky.
These mechanical fortresses were not simply military strongholds.
Within them, they carried Rule Anchor Points, Time-Space Stabilizers, Interstellar Artillery Arrays, Resource Extraction Equipment, and Specialized Containment Chambers used to temporarily seal away death and Darkness-type High-Dimensional Materials.
Saine did not take all these things away.
On the contrary, he was driving a portion of Mechanical Civilization's core elements, nail by nail, into Dark Universe Time-Space.
On the outskirts of the Death Star Sea, hundreds of Silver-White Mechanical Fortresses linked together into an Arc-shaped Great Wall.
Inside every fortress were several sets of Independently Operating Time-Space Artillery Arrays.
These artillery arrays were not in a hurry to attack. What they were aiming