When the World-Realm Emperor Monarch contacted Saine again, the pair of newly formed black wings hovered above the mechanical laboratory.
A thread of Power of Destruction flowed slowly along the edge of a wing. Under Saine's control, it stopped at a point that still needed adjustment.
After receiving the message, he finished recording his current results before having Wall-E connect the call.
This time, there was no new redemption list.
What the World-Realm Emperor Monarch sent instead were several sets of rule changes that looked vastly different from one another.
Some involved powers native to Source-Devouring Time-Space, while others clearly bore different attributes from outside it.
What caught Saine's attention first was what happened when those powers came into contact.
Most of the foreign powers quickly lost their original forms. Only a tiny fraction retained any distinctive fluctuations after the bright yellow origin flowed over them.
"Were all these things processed as soon as they entered your time-space?" Saine asked.
On the other side of the communication screen, the World-Realm Emperor Monarch shook his head.
"Some weren't. They were simply left there, and after a while, they became like this." Saine pulled two of the records closer.
Prolonged contact alone could alter foreign materials to this extent. The Rule Attributes of Source-Devouring Time-Space itself were indeed extraordinarily powerful.
Still, it did not come entirely as a surprise.
The Source-Devouring Beast Cores Saine had obtained before, along with the devouring traits the Spirit-Seizing Bone Emperor had repeatedly displayed, showed something similar.
The difference was that this was no longer a creature actively extracting external energy.
It was the sustained influence a Higher Dimensional Plane exerted on things that entered it.
"What do you want me to do?" Saine asked, looking up.
The World-Realm Emperor Monarch fell silent for a moment before