When Saine left Evil Swamp Time-Space, the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord remained in the newly opened receiving zone.
He could already retract some of his wings and even spare a portion of his will to observe the nearby legions. But whenever the origin tides deeper within shifted, he had to concentrate again.
There were no enemies here, yet it exhausted him more than fighting a war.
The Lord of Evil Swamp did not stay beside him the whole time.
Sometimes, he would suppress a fluctuation from far away. At other times, he merely had the Mechanical Civilization's Observation Devices deliver the changes that needed attention to the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord.
During the first hundred-odd years, the scale of the new diversion did not expand much.
But several of the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord's old injuries gradually healed in the process.
One wing, once severely eroded by evil swamp pollution, finally stopped oozing viscous fluid. Its ragged edges grew back, and he reclaimed some of the heavenly wing rules that had been scattered, drawing them back into his body.
He did not immediately ask for more authority.
The Heavenly Wing Demon Lord remembered every warning Saine had left before departing.
Still, as his strength gradually recovered, he grew impatient after all.
Several hundred more years passed, and a surge of Mother Time-Space fluctuations fiercer than usual appeared outside the receiving zone.
Under the original arrangement, some of it should have bypassed the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord and remained the Lord of Evil Swamp's burden.
Yet as the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord watched the dense radiance before him, he did not immediately step aside.
He spread his wings outward and directly took on an additional portion.
At first, nothing went wrong.
A vast amount of origin power entered his body through