The God of Machines continued forward.
The closer Saine drew to the battlefield where the Destruction Supreme was located, the heavier the pressure of the rules he bore became.
One-third of Thomas's Castle Gear outer wall had already unfolded around the God of Machines.
The Mountain Giant King's Earth Element Golden Wall Module lay submerged within the God of Machines' chest and abdomen, like a golden mountain range heavy beyond measure, shielding Saine from the Destruction Crystal Tide surging in from every direction.
These defenses were no mere decoration.
The residual fluctuations left behind by the Destruction Supreme's and Locke's recent clash alone were enough to tear apart the outer Rule True Bodies of many ordinary Level-12 Beings.
Not to mention that the Destruction Supreme was still continuously gathering feedback from the depths of Destruction Time-Space.
Saine did not rush to act.
He controlled the God of Machines to hover at the edge of the central battlefield. Before him, hundreds of millions of data-light specks were rapidly reorganizing under the dual calculations of Skynet and the Magic Cube.
The Destruction Supreme was certainly powerful.
But its strength did not come from nowhere.
The reason its previous strike had visibly overwhelmed Locke was that several forces had empowered it at the same time.
Saine classified these empowerments into three sources.
The first was the Destruction Heart Core deep within Destruction Time-Space.
Previously, Saine had only been able to vaguely pinpoint that region's general direction.
Now, as the Destruction Supreme unleashed power beyond that of an ordinary Level-13 Peak, the Destruction Heart Core's presence likewise became clear.
It did not resemble an ordinary Origin Node.
It was more like the still-beating heart of the entire Destruction Time-Space.
Even if this heart was already gravely diseased, even continuously spewing uncontrolled Destruction Rules outward,