The Destruction Supreme's first wave of will impact came down even heavier than Saine had projected.
It was neither a hand nor a beam of light.
It was more like the entire Destruction Time-Space had pressed down upon the entrance zone all at once.
Outside the bridgehead, the living Rule Anchor Point where the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast was held was the first to erupt with a violent hum. The Level-12 Mid-Stage Destruction Creature, already pinned down by the outer ring of mechanical cages and Final Silence Gray Mark chains, sprouted mad clusters of dark gold crystals across its body, nearly bursting open the outermost cage.
The three mechanical fortresses assigned to guard this anchor point entered overload almost simultaneously.
Dazzling red warning lights illuminated rows upon rows of Skynet terminals within the fortresses.
Several mechanical commanders at the Level-9 Life tier submitted seventeen emergency plans in the span of two breaths, but Saine's primary control will quickly vetoed every one of them.
It was not that they could not be used.
The cost was simply too great.
The Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast containment zone also suffered a backlash.
Those residual eyes sealed away by the Mechanical Civilization opened almost at once. Dozens of Destruction gazes shot from the gaps, sweeping through two small mechanical towers responsible for maintaining the outer array.
Farther away, the black wheel behind the Silent Wheel Burier began accelerating again.
The Dark Obelisk Phantoms around the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch also became more solid at this moment.
The Destruction Supreme had not truly arrived yet.
But its will had already made every native node of the Destruction Time-Space in the entrance zone raise its head in unison.
"Outer bridgehead pressure has increased by thirty percent!"
"The first, third, and fifth Final Silence Gray Mark Arrays have developed