After successfully helping Locke control the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast, Saine did not immediately proceed with the next round of Destruction Creature control experiments.
The Crystal Tide Wrath Beast's destruction mark still required long-term observation.
In particular, it was still impossible to determine with certainty whether the Destruction Supreme's subsequent will impacts would cause this Level-12 mount to lose control again.
Saine merely had Skynet continue recording every rule change in the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast.
He redirected more of his attention to the Source-Devouring Beast Core and Cross-Time-Space Nodes experiments.
Several centuries passed in the blink of an eye.
Deep within the Central Experimental Cluster of Gear Time-Space, a Source-Devouring Beast Core that had undergone multiple modifications floated before the Magic Cube.
Most of the Source-Devouring Erosion properties within the core had already been stripped away by Saine.
Its remaining rule structure had been connected to the Balance Dispatch Core, where it was used to process dozens of types of foreign energy with differing properties.
All experimental data remained normal.
That was until the Magic Cube began attempting to connect the Source-Devouring Beast Core's energy conversion module to the Cross-Time-Space Nodes. An extremely faint fluctuation of Time Rules suddenly passed through the laboratory's seals!
The fluctuation had appeared with astonishing abruptness.
The nearby Skynet probes issued no warnings.
Neither the laboratory's outer mechanical seals nor the Final Silence Gray Seal had been disturbed.
It was as though that ripple of time had always existed here and had only revealed itself at this moment.
Saine immediately halted the experiment at hand.
The Magic Cube's rule radiance abruptly expanded, forcibly fixing the fading Time Fluctuations in the center of the laboratory.
The fluctuation itself did not contain much power.
Yet when Saine touched it with his Mental Strength, he experienced an