The Destruction Crystal Tide surging from the crack of the Bronze Gate was even sharper than it had appeared in the distant projection.
It was not a simple impact, but a cutting force.
Layer after layer of dark golden Destruction Rule swept past like countless thin blades, scraping continuously against the outer shell of the God of Machines.
Ordinary metal armor, under that kind of scouring, would not last even a single hourglass.
Saine did not retreat.
He had come here personally precisely to test the God of Machines' newest defensive form.
"Fortress Defense Form, deploy."
As Saine's will descended, behind the God of Machines, rings of massive castle-gear outer walls boomed open.
That was Thomas's castle-type Rule Module.
Ancient gear patterns and metal city-wall structures interlocked across the outer layer of the God of Machines, forming the first heavy layer of defense.
Immediately after, the radiance of the Earth Element Golden Wall lit up from the chest and arms of the God of Machines.
The defensive module of the Mountain Giant King, Qingtian, was like high-dimensional mountain ranges compressed to their utmost limit, embedded into the skeleton of the God of Machines.
These modules were not good at explosive bursts.
But in two words: hard enough!
When the Destruction Crystal Tide struck the Earth Element Golden Wall, what rang out was no longer a sharp slicing sound, but a dull roar like countless grains of metal sand crashing into mountains.
The four black-silver pyramids of the Dimension-Severing Cage also hovered to the four corners of the God of Machines at the same time.
They did not immediately unfold into a complete cage.
Instead, in the form of compressed components, they nailed down the surrounding time-space boundaries.
The projection of the Ten Thousand Mechanical Law Ring appeared behind the head