Saine's first laboratory after arriving in Clear River Time-Space was set up deep within the Mechanical Position guarded by the Mountain Giant King.
Naturally, it could not compare to the central laboratory complex in Gear Time-Space.
With the fighting on the front lines growing fiercer, powerful rule fluctuations even rippled through the area outside the laboratory at regular intervals.
But absolute silence was not what Saine needed now. His battle with the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch had given him further insights.
He wanted to observe what changes the creatures of Source-Devouring Time-Space would undergo in an environment closer to the Source-Devouring Channel.
The level-11 source-devouring living specimen was soon delivered to the center of the laboratory.
More than a hundred thousand Alchemy Needles still pierced its rule true body.
The multiple layers of Mechanical Chains and partitioning devices had not loosened during cross-dimensional plane transport, either.
But compared to when it had been in Evil Swamp Time-Space, the crystal core inside this source-devouring practitioner was clearly far more active.
It could sense the nearby Source-Devouring Channel!
Bright yellow light constantly spilled through the gaps in its carapace. Some of the mechanical arms positioned closer to it even began suffering slight energy loss.
Saine did not begin the experiment immediately.
First, he retrieved all the combat footage of source-devouring lifeforms that Skynet had recorded over the past several years.
Hundreds of millions of rule projections unfolded simultaneously around the laboratory.
The lowest-order source-devouring beasts showed almost no sign of intelligence.
They knew only how to devour, slaughter, and send the vitality and rule origin they obtained to the rear through the source-devouring veins.
After reaching the dominator-class, some source-devouring beasts could perform relatively simple flanking maneuvers and coordinated actions.
But their cooperation seemed more like unified direction from the source-devouring network than