Once the half-ring of the Realm-Suppressing Ring pinned down the Star Sector where the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast resided, Locke's lucid destruction will finally descended into it.
At that moment, the entire Star Sector seemed to have been nailed in place by an invisible black spear.
The dark golden destruction crystal tide first launched a violent counterattack.
Countless crystal clusters grew madly from shattered continents, rifts in the void, and the interiors of destruction ruins, as though trying to squeeze out this strand of Locke's foreign destruction will completely.
But soon, these destruction crystal tides began showing signs of submission.
Half lashed back.
Half submitted.
This was the most tangible sign that Locke had begun claiming his first share of authority over Destruction Time-Space.
Saine did not call this process an ascension.
Nor did he regard it as the beginning of Locke's replacement of the Destruction Supreme.
At least for now, that was still a long way off.
The true core of Destruction Time-Space remained the Destruction Heart Core.
The Destruction Supreme still held the greatest share of this Higher Dimensional Plane's origin authority.
What Locke had done, with the combined assistance of Saine, the half-ring of the Realm-Suppressing Ring, the Final Silence Gray Seal, the Destruction Noise Canceller, and the Creation Prologue, was merely invade and pry open a Star Sector that had originally belonged to the Destruction Supreme.
But even that was already astonishing.
It meant that, for the first time, Locke possessed a certain "legitimacy" within Destruction Time-Space.
The word legitimacy sounded somewhat strange when applied to an extreme destruction time-space almost devoid of lucid will.
But from the perspective of rules, it was indeed valid.
An outside Lord of Dimension seeking long-term control of a Higher Dimensional Plane could certainly destroy many things through brute force.