Saine finally managed to pin down one of the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast's eyes on its own.
It still spewed Destruction Firelight, but as the surrounding seals gradually tightened, the trace of origin fluctuations deep within the eye that connected it to the outside world became clear within Skynet's light screen.
Saine compared it against the star maps previously recorded by the Mechanical Civilization, one by one.
After several adjustments, a region of destruction on the far side of the Dark Obelisk Star Zone was marked out.
It was not particularly far from the outer nodes currently under Locke's control.
However, for a long time, the Star Sector occupied by the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch had remained unstable, and the Mechanical Legion had not continued exploring in this direction.
Now, with the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch's submission, the many old networks of laws lingering along the route had fallen into Locke's hands.
"We can head over now," Saine said.
At the edge of the Dark Obelisk Star Zone, the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast raised its head.
A gap slowly opened in the starry expanse behind it, which had been sealed off by gray-white ring shadows.
Countless pitch-black obelisk shadows extended through the gap. Layer upon layer of staggered spatial sections were forcibly pulled together by the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch.
The Crystal Tide Wrath Beast leaped through first!
Its enormous body descended through the starry sky, crushing a floating continent beneath its feet. Hundreds of millions of troops from the Destruction Surrendered Army followed close behind, charging toward the crystal tide ahead along the path marked by black-red Flames of Destruction.
The native Destruction Creatures in this starry expanse reacted at the same time.
Vast swaths of dark golden firelight rose from underground and deep within the crystal clusters. The Destruction Creatures that had