While the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast was successfully captured alive, the situation on another battlefield was heading in a completely different direction.
The Black Flame Skeletonized Being had originally been one of Saine's intended targets for capture.
This Level-12 Early-Stage Destruction Creature was not of the highest realm, but the black-flame skeletal reconstruction ability it displayed was exceedingly valuable.
If captured alive, it would greatly aid Saine's research into mechanical assembly, the eruption and suppression of the Self-Sealing Technique, and even the future living modification of destruction nodes.
Unfortunately, battlefields never progressed entirely according to plan.
After the rule bone fragment at the core of the Black Flame Skeletonized Being's chest cavity was stripped away, it did not gradually weaken like the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast. Instead, it entered an extraordinarily bizarre state of frenzied reconstruction.
Its skeleton began to shatter without end.
Then reconstruct itself without end.
With every shattering, vast amounts of black flame burst from the gaps in its bones.
With every reconstruction, the nearby Dark Obelisk Phantoms flickered, as though they were pouring fresh Destruction Rules into its body.
Star Mark's Starlight Chains had already wrapped around half its body.
But in the next moment, the Black Flame Skeletonized Being voluntarily shattered the portion of its skeleton that had been bound, allowing those bone fragments to turn into black-flame debris.
Then, within another Destruction Crystal Tide thousands of miles away, it condensed half a skeletal body anew.
This style of fighting was exceptionally troublesome.
"It's using self-destruction to evade the blockade."
Outside the Bronze Gate, Saine quickly saw the problem.
The Black Flame Skeletonized Being had no intelligence.
Yet its instinct for destruction had pushed the rule of "reconstruction" to the extreme.
Ordinary containment methods simply could not suppress it.
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