The last Cross-Time-Space Channel had begun to shake violently.
Two of the three mechanical platforms keeping the channel operational had developed extensive cracks.
The Time-Space Rules the Despair Matriarch had left here were being relentlessly compressed by the origin of Source-Devouring Time-Space.
The Alarm Clock Girl had already returned to Clear River Time-Space.
She and the Despair Matriarch were now on the other side of the channel, doing everything they could to stabilize this final evacuation route.
The pressure of the rules exerted by the Source-Devouring Progenitor and the Seven Emperor Monarchs converged on the channel from every direction.
The Destruction Black Lotus beneath Locke's feet had expanded to its limit.
Its twelve jet-black petals covered a vast stretch of the surrounding starry sky, temporarily holding the attacks of the World-Realm Emperor Monarch, World-Devouring Emperor Monarch, and Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch at bay.
Every sweep of the God Slaying Spear produced a dark-red spear radiance that cut across the Source-Devouring Starry Sky.
The World-Realm Emperor Monarch's Cosmic Realm Disc spun repeatedly.
The Seven-Realm Spear thrust at Locke from different spatial dimensions without pause.
But the Destruction Black Lotus and the God Slaying Spear blocked all these attacks head-on.
The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch unfurled the Myriad-Origin Heaven-Devouring Ring, attempting to drain the space-time energy inside the last channel.
Saine piloted the God of Machines into position in front of the channel.
Its left arm, in Destruction Form, collided head-on with the Myriad-Origin Heaven-Devouring Ring once again.
Vast quantities of ashen flame immediately poured into the devouring vortex, forcing the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch to stop draining the channel's energy.
The main cannons on the God of Machines' back fired simultaneously.
Dense torrents of energy swept through the surrounding beast tide, vaporizing entire swaths of the Source-Devouring Beast Legion trying to approach the channel.