Saine had originally thought the first round of exploration was already over.
The God of Machines withdrew from the Bronze Gate with Wuzhuo, and large numbers of Mechanical Civilization exploration units and the remnants of the Evil Swamp Legion were also dragged back, one after another, to the Experimental Base outside the Bronze Gate.
Although the losses had not been small, the samples, Star Map, fragmentary texts, and dossiers on the five Level-12 Destruction powerhouses that they needed to obtain were all already in hand.
This trip had not been a loss.
It could even be said that they had made a huge profit!
However, before the phantom of the Bronze Gate had fully contracted, deep within the Dark Golden Destruction Crystal Tide inside the gate, everything suddenly went quiet for an instant.
It was not that sound had vanished.
Rather, the auras of all the Destruction Tides, the destruction beast hordes, the Black Flame Spire Cluster, and Level-12 Destruction powerhouses such as the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch all seemed to be pinned down by an invisible great hand.
Even the God of Machines, who was undergoing repairs outside the Bronze Gate, had his damaged outer armor emit a piercing alarm at that moment.
Saine abruptly raised his head.
Through the Bronze Gate, which had yet to fully close, he looked toward the Destruction Time-Space behind the gate.
There, the outline of a Rule True Body that could not be described in words appeared with terrifying clarity from the depths of the Destruction Crystal Tide!
It had no head, torso, hands, or feet in the normal sense.
Or rather, it could possess any form!
It was like a boundless ocean of destruction, and also like a black throne pressing in from the end of time-space.
Its outline changed constantly, at times