The war in Destruction Time-Space subsequently entered an extraordinarily prolonged stalemate.
For the lower-level legions, several decades were already enough for generation after generation of combat units to bury their bones in this dark-gold destructive starry sky.
But for Locke, Saine, Hongjun, and the others who truly led this war, a few decades were merely a somewhat longer battle and a test of rules.
The bridgehead in the entrance zone had already expanded far beyond its original size.
The war fortress clusters of the Mechanical Civilization were like pitch-black Metal Nails, driven deep into Destruction Time-Space.
Around every fortress, Final Silence Gray Seals, Rule Anchor Points, Dimension-Severing Cage components, and vast mechanical engineering legions operated in concert.
The Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast, the two captured Level-12 destruction nodes, were respectively suppressed within the two most crucial Observation Arrays.
The former was responsible for receiving changes in the Destruction Crystal Tide Sea.
The latter was responsible for monitoring the Destruction Vision in reverse.
Naturally, they had no desire to cooperate with Saine.
In fact, whenever the Destruction Supreme clashed with Locke on the frontline, these two sealed Level-12 Destruction Creatures would riot to varying degrees.
Dark-gold crystal clusters crazily grew across the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast's body, attempting to pierce through its mechanical spherical cage.
The Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast's remaining eyeballs continuously released chaotic vision outward, seeking to contaminate Skynet's observation lines.
But Saine had long been prepared.
Instead, these riots became the best samples for his study of the deep rule patterns within Destruction Time-Space.
Over the decades, through the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast, the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast, the rule bone fragments left behind by the Black Flame Skeletonized Being, and data sent back from battlefields involving the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse, Silent Wheel