When the fourth Source-Tracing Echo arrived, Saine did not immediately enter the laboratory.
Skynet was already capable of independently completing the initial information reception and rule comparison.
By the time Saine finished another Source-Devouring Beast Core experiment and arrived at the area where the Magic Cube was located, the pitch-black Time Mark from the Material Star Realm had already been floating steadily for more than ten hourglasses.
Compared to last time, the Mental Strength Naige'er transmitted this time was weaker.
He seemed to have confirmed that Saine could sense his presence.
Most of his power was being used to deepen the connection between that Time Mark and Gear Time-Space.
A straight gray-black thread appeared in the void above the Magic Cube and the laboratory.
The thread looked no thicker than a strand of hair.
Yet when Saine observed it through the Radiance of Truth, he could see hundreds of millions of time patterns within it constantly twisting, breaking apart, and reconnecting.
Naige'er had found a relatively correct path among those mutually contradictory time patterns.
This Black Mage of the Wizard Civilization had clearly made no small amount of progress in the field of Time Rules in recent years.
However, the Arcane Truth of Time was clearly not the primary Truth direction he pursued.
Naige'er was more like someone forcibly wielding the Source Tracing Stone.
Vast amounts of death and darkness rules were stuffed by him into those temporal gaps that could rupture at any moment.
Whenever a Rule Node collapsed, he temporarily froze it with the Power of Death.
Whenever a portion of Mental Strength was about to be swept away by the turbulent flow of time, he simply abandoned that portion of power.
This method could not be called refined.
It could even be described as exceedingly crude.
But