The Destruction Supreme began gathering the Level-12 Rule Nodes under its command.
This change was not a strategic adjustment it had made after clear-headed deliberation.
The Destruction Supreme possessed no such rationality.
At least, from what Saine had observed so far, it was still nothing more than a destructively aggregated entity that had undergone extreme Rule-based Transformation.
Yet the more an existence was like this, the more direct—and dangerous—its instinctive reactions tended to be.
Saine continuously used the half-ring of the Realm-Suppressing Ring, the Destruction Noise Canceller, the Final Silence Gray Seal, and the Creation Prologue to sever the Destruction Supreme's connections with the external nodes.
Meanwhile, Locke and the other five Lords of Dimension repeatedly struck its Rule True Body in the central battlefield.
As it was continuously weakened, the Destruction Supreme instinctively began recalling the Level-12 Destruction Creatures scattered across the various battlefields back to its side.
A silent Destruction Ripple rapidly spread across the entire battlefield with the Destruction Supreme at its center.
The ripple swept over the Crystal Tide Sea.
It swept over the clusters of Dark Obelisks.
It swept over the bridgehead in the entrance zone, already battered into a ruin of shattered fragments.
It also swept over the Level-12 Destruction Creatures still locked in bloody combat with the powerful figures of the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction.
The first to be affected was the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse.
This Level-12 Peak Destruction Creature, with a shattered gate ring embedded in its chest, had previously been held back by the Sword Demon, the Jinyue Witch, and several Mechanical Civilization fortress groups.
The battlefield where the Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse stood had originally been one of the most perilous areas in the entire outer war zone.
That was because the boundary-severing rules it commanded did not merely cut apart