When the Star-Shattering Moth Emperor arrived on the battlefield, dust appeared first.
Dark golden dust drifted out from the depths of the Destruction Crystal Tide. At first, it was only a thin layer, like ashes flung up by the explosion of a star. Several Evil Swamp Time-Space Legions paid it little heed. They were Combat Beings born in environments of extreme pollution and possessed formidable resistance to all manner of corrosion, Poison Mist, and rule miasma.
But they soon realized something was wrong.
A Level-9 Evil Swamp powerhouse's right arm crystallized first, then dense black thorns began to sprout from his elbow. Those thorns were not foreign objects, but twisted products born after the rules within his body had been forcibly rewritten by the Destruction Scale Powder.
Roaring, he severed his own right arm.
It was useless.
The crystallization continued spreading from the wound toward his chest.
At the same time, millions of Evil Swamp Creatures nearby underwent similar changes. Their eyes rapidly clouded over, their Origin of Pollution overwhelmed by the Destruction Scale Powder. The legions that had once obeyed the orders of their respective hall masters actually began turning on and tearing apart the comrades beside them.
The Limitless Time-Space Legion fared no better.
Metallic Rule Artifacts continuously developed dark golden blotches under the erosion of the scale powder. The core logic of some low-level metal lifeforms was forcibly overwritten by the desire for destruction, causing them to turn around and crash straight into their own lines.
Even within the Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion, a small portion of the non-core Destruction-type vassal creatures briefly lost control.
Only when Locke's will of destruction swept in from beyond the Bronze Gate did those Destruction Divine Kingdom creatures suppress the turmoil within themselves once more.
But Locke could not enter the