The scale of the Evil Swamp Anchor Point was no longer sufficient to bear the ever-increasing Rule Origin.
Hundreds of temporary platforms deployed by the Mechanical Civilization trembled continuously amid the gray-green tide.
Viscous tentacles and flesh-like tissue had even begun growing across the surfaces of some platforms.
The mechanical modules were suffering from Evil Swamp Pollution.
Yet these platforms, already isolated from Skynet's main body, continued operating at full capacity according to the orders Saine had issued in advance.
The Time-Space Rules left behind by the Despair Matriarch formed a transparent barrier around the anchor point.
Meanwhile, the Power of Time released by Alarm Clock Girl kept some Mechanical Nodes that were already on the verge of collapse suspended at the instant before their complete destruction.
Bolstered by the rules of the two Time-Space Element powerhouses, the gray-green passage continued expanding.
At first, only a wisp of will could pass through.
Then, one of the Lord of Evil Swamp's Rule Eyes fully manifested within the Source-Devouring Time-Space.
Great quantities of gray-green flesh and viscous rules began gathering around that eye.
The Lord of Evil Swamp was actively shaping a cross-realm Rule True Body for itself!
This development was also reflected in the Evil Swamp Time-Space.
The Lord of Evil Swamp's true body, slumbering deep within that time-space, began releasing increasingly intense rule fluctuations.
Large numbers of nodes that had originally been controlled by the Evil Spirit King and the Mechanical Civilization began responding once more to the Lord of Evil Swamp's will.
The Evil Spirit King had no choice but to intervene personally and stabilize the authority he had painstakingly seized over the years.
However, the Lord of Evil Swamp did not launch a counterattack against him.
Those Evil Swamp Nodes that had lit up again were merely channeling