The black slit on the face of the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch maintained for less than half an hourglass before closing again.
However, the destruction will left nearby by Locke did not retreat with it.
A wisp of Black-Red Flames slid down along the blank face, and just as it touched the neck, it was blocked by a suddenly emerging projection of an obelisk.
Pitch-black rule rays then pierced through the flame.
The Empty-Faced Burning Monarch began to struggle again.
It did not possess much sentience, and that momentary instinctive response was not enough to make this Level-12 peak destruction creature immediately change its allegiance.
Yet for Luo, the previous response had already pointed out the direction where erosion could continue.
"Keep those obelisks that stopped operating just now," Saine said.
The raised foreleg of the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast then swung to the other side under Luo's command.
Amidst rumbling sounds, a group of obelisks that were still transmitting dark golden power to the sealed zone were crushed by it. The mechanical units that followed closely behind quickly collected the pieces and buried new mechanical anchors in the original spots.
On the periphery of the sealed zone, those obelisks that had previously responded to Luo were marked out individually.
Their number was very small, and their distribution was extremely scattered.
One of them was even broken in the middle, leaving only a little over half of the pitch-black obelisk body stuck obliquely at the edge of the continent.
When Saine had the mechanical probe approach this obelisk, what he saw was a complete rule pathway still leading into the body of the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch.
Luo's destruction flame then advanced along this pathway once again.
This time, until the flame entered the shoulder of the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, that blank