The trouble brought by the Silent Wheel Burier erupted earlier than Saine had expected.
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This Level-12 Late-Stage Destruction Creature carried an enormous black wheel upon its back, pieced together from countless shattered stellar rings. When it arrived at the outskirts of the entrance zone, it did not immediately charge at any Level-12 Strong Practitioner. Instead, it halted above a Shattered Continent and slowly turned the silent wheel behind it.
With that single turn, the Mechanical Civilization's forward artillery array malfunctioned.
Three War Fortresses, seventy-two rule main cannons, and more than ten thousand medium-sized star-destroying cannons launched their first wave of blanket fire at the Silent Wheel Burier after Skynet's unified calibration.
The firepower was precise.
And powerful enough.
Yet when all the artillery beams came within a third of a star region from the Silent Wheel Burier, their trajectories suddenly curved. They were neither deflected nor swallowed; instead, they turned back as if following some invisible ring.
The next instant, the artillery beams changed direction.
They struck the Mechanical Civilization's own lines!
"Boom!!"
The first small War Fortress had its outer shell blasted through by its own main cannon, and its internal energy furnace immediately overloaded. Before the two nearby Evil Swamp Time-Space Legions could figure out what had happened, the returning cannon fire swept over them, vaporizing vast numbers of polluted creatures and semi-mechanical modified beings in the explosions.
Worse still, this mistaken strike stirred the already unstable Destruction Crystal Tide in the entrance zone.
The crystal tide surged back along the direction of the explosions, making more than a dozen Rule Anchor Points shake violently.
"Annihilation Reversal."
Saine quickly delivered his judgment.
There was no anger in his eyes, only an increasingly fine, icy glint.
The Silent Wheel Burier's rule ability was not