The fierce battle in Destruction Time-Space continued.
And the outline of Destruction Supreme's Rule True Body had finally reached the outskirts of the entrance-zone battlefield.
It had not yet truly stepped into the heart of this bridgehead.
Yet merely as that incomparably massive shadow of destruction crossed the far end of the Destruction Crystal Tide, the entire entrance-zone battlefield seemed to be gripped tight by an invisible giant hand.
The first to erupt was the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast.
This Level-12 Mid-Stage Destruction Creature, which Saine had transformed into a living Rule Anchor Point, had originally been suppressed deep beneath the outer rings of its mechanical cage, the Final Silence Gray Seal chains, and multiple self-sealing modules. But when Destruction Supreme's will truly bore down, dark-gold crystal clusters still exploded across its surface in an instant.
Clusters of crystal pierced through the outer cage one after another.
Great bursts of fire flared across the mechanical fortress's surface.
"Crystal Tide Wrath Beast anchor point destabilized!"
"Outer-ring cage damage has exceeded forty percent!"
"Final Silence Gray Seal chains are being reverse-corroded!"
Wall-E's alarms rang out one after another throughout Saine's experimental array.
Almost at the same time, the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast containment zone began to lash back as well.
This other Level-12 Destruction Creature, likewise captured alive, opened all its remaining eyes at once. The Destruction Vision that Saine had converted into a monitoring tool nearly burned through the independent subnet in reverse at that moment.
A Level-9 mechanical commander responsible for maintaining the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast node had just severed the third layer of data circuits when a destructive gaze shot from a gap in the cage and pierced through his core.
The spark of his consciousness failed to withdraw intact.
Only a fragment of shattered data remained, forcibly packaged and