As Locke stepped through the Bronze Gate, the destruction crystal tide surging toward him from within parted to either side.
Black-red flames spread from beneath his feet into the depths of the starry sky. Several Star Sectors already under his control sent back powerful responses from their rules, one after another.
The Destruction Black Lotus slowly rotated. Vast amounts of origin power that he had once needed to summon through connections of will now gathered directly around him.
The nearby Mechanical Fleets moved out toward the perimeter.
Although Locke did not deliberately exert pressure on these allied forces, the disturbance in the rules caused by his arrival in person still made the protective layers of Combat Platforms light up one after another along his path.
Standing inside the God of Machines, Saine watched a dark golden tide surge from afar, only to gradually take on a black-red radiance as it approached Locke.
Compared with before, Locke was clearly far more at ease accepting these powers.
With a slight forward motion of the God Slaying Spear, the destruction tide that had already changed course swept past the Mechanical Positions ahead and charged straight toward the Erosion Abyss Mother Nest.
The enormous body of the crystal tide wrath beast appeared in the center of the tide a moment later.
The destruction marks on its body became exceptionally vivid as Locke approached in person. The destruction beasts that had been roaming the outskirts also began gathering under the pull of that power.
The first collision on the front line erupted almost instantly.
Before the beasts released by the Erosion Abyss Mother Nest could fully cross the gap between the two starfields, the oncoming crystal tide wrath beast crushed vast swathes of them.
Exploding destruction crystals scattered in every direction, mixed with countless severed