After the Destruction Divine Kingdom reinforcements arrived in Clear River Time-Space, Saine did not distribute these new forces evenly across the various battlefields.
Instead, he concentrated the elite legions from the six Combat Clusters in a single Mechanical Node region.
The Level-12 target prominently marked by Skynet was the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor.
It had been chosen as the first target not merely because the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor had recently moved closer to the Mechanical Civilization Frontline.
The Soul-Extraction Rules mastered by this ancient emperor also held immense research value.
Saine was studying why the High-Level Beings of Source-Devouring Time-Space could retain their sanity.
If he could capture the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor alive and conduct a complete study of its crystal core, soul, and sea of consciousness, the experimental results would certainly far surpass those obtained from level-11 live specimens.
A set of deliberately manipulated Mechanical Rules data soon appeared in the war zone where the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor was located.
This rules data seemed extremely chaotic, as though it was Node Engineering material the Mechanical Civilization had failed to take away in time during an emergency retreat.
At the same time, several War Fortresses containing Source-Devouring Crystal Cores and mechanical Experiment Specimens were exposed.
The Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor indeed Noticed this place.
It did not immediately leave the Source-Devouring Channel it guarded.
Several streams of soul rules crossed the battlefield first, repeatedly probing this mechanical position.
But the bait Saine had arranged was realistic enough.
The Source-Devouring Crystal Cores and experimental equipment inside the War Fortresses were all genuine.
There was even a Mechanical Engineering Legion responsible for relocating "important data," hurriedly retreating in the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor's perception.
The Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor finally moved.
Vast pale-yellow shadows spread out beneath its Rule True Body.
Countless Source-Devouring Beasts followed behind