Saine's breakthrough came more suddenly than anyone had expected.
Including Saine himself.
Over a long period in the past, nearly every advancement in Saine's realm had been tied to laboratories, Truth deductions, Magic Cube Time-Space transformations, and vast accumulations of data.
He was a Mage of the Wizard World.
Even though he had now become the Mechanical God Emperor, standing at a height that countless powerhouses of the Higher Dimensional Plane could only look up to, Saine still instinctively preferred to break all changes down into data, models, samples, and verifiable Truth Arcana.
But this time was different.
This time, Saine did not complete the final step inside a laboratory.
He did so upon the battlefield of Lords of Dimension in Demon Cave Time-Space.
Before him stood Myriad Phenomena Balance Master Chen Yuan.
The Balance Rules controlled by the other party continuously influenced the distribution of weight across the entire battlefield through the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk.
Kakarot's fists, the crushing pressure of the God of Machines, the ruined star belts of Demon Cave Time-Space itself, the life-and-death attrition of the many surrounding legions, even the oppressive aura of destruction emanating from the distant Locke, who had yet to truly make a move—all of it was being drawn by Chen Yuan into his Balance Chessboard.
This method of wielding laws greatly stirred Saine.
Balance was not simple "averaging."
Nor was it merely weakening the strong and strengthening the weak.
Chen Yuan's Balance Rules were a redistribution of "existence weight."
A punch that should have landed in one place could be transferred across more than a dozen star regions.
The pressure of a law that should have acted upon one powerhouse could be distributed among the surrounding battlefield environment.
Even a shattered, demonized continent that had originally held little significance could,