Recaps

Chen Yuan noticed the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction’s forces converging on an unknown Higher Dimension and tried to uncover its target while other Dimension Lords held back. Unable to see through the Bronze Gate’s concealment, he arranged to monitor supply routes and suspicious trade, as the invasion force reached the gate.

• The Dark Nether Death God ordered the Yin God Envoy to withdraw outer legions and sent Great Black Heaven to inspect mechanical inscriptions, allowing him to report Dark Universe Time-Space’s response to Gear Time-Space.
• Chen Yuan observed several powers mobilizing toward an unknown void, sought information from other dimensions, and learned that most Dimension Lords would not join the coming war.
• Chen Yuan tried to deduce the Bronze Gate’s location on the Myriad Phenomena Chessboard, but its concealment blocked him and risked backlash.
• Chen Yuan placed pieces representing Dark Universe Time-Space, the Darkness Sword Organization, and Qisha Time-Space around the unknown void to have them monitor the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction’s resource routes.
• Chen Yuan warned the Myriad Phenomena Community not to provoke the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction and required reports of abnormal transactions, while the first invasion legion arrived before the Bronze Gate.

Saine, Locke, and the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction launched an operation through the Bronze Gate to fight the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and collect samples of its Level-12 Origin of Destruction. After Wuzhuo, Blue-eyed Octopus, and Star Mark engaged the beast, Saine deployed more troops and outposts as the war for Destruction Time-Space began.

• Saine’s forces deployed the Final Silence Gray Marks, then Wuzhuo, Blue-eyed Octopus, Star Mark, and the Evil Swamp vanguard entered Destruction Time-Space.
• Saine used the vanguard’s mechanical observation runes to gather data as the Destruction Crystal Tide killed many of the low-level troops.
• The Crystal Tide Wrath Beast awakened and attacked Wuzhuo’s group, crushing Evil Swamp troops and striking at the Level-12 fighters.
• Blue-eyed Octopus disrupted the beast’s control of the crystal tide while Star Mark blocked its escape routes, creating an opening for Wuzhuo to tear through its crystal armor.
• Saine’s mechanical recovery beams captured a fresh Level-12 Origin of Destruction sample from the beast’s exposed rule pathways.
• Saine sent a second wave of the Evil Swamp Legion and three mechanical outpost fortresses through the Bronze Gate as the battle intensified.

Saine’s team wounded the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and retrieved a core Rule Fragment, confirming that the Level-12 Destruction Creature served as a node in Destruction Time-Space. Saine ordered Wuzhuo, Star Mark, and Blue-eyed Octopus to capture it alive, leaving the battle unresolved as Destruction Creatures flooded toward them.

• Wuzhuo, Blue-eyed Octopus, and Star Mark coordinated their attacks to disrupt the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and exploit its instinctive fighting style.
• At Saine’s command, Wuzhuo tore core crystal armor from the beast while Blue-eyed Octopus and Star Mark endured the backlash.
• Saine used the Final Silence Gray Mark Array and mechanical retrieval beams to secure the crystal armor, then concluded that the beast was a rule node in Destruction Time-Space.
• Saine ordered the three fighters to capture and seal the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast alive, and they began binding it while disrupting its control over the crystal tide.
• Low-level Destruction Creatures converged on the battlefield, and Saine recorded their instinctive response as the fight to capture the beast continued.

Saine established the Mechanical Civilization’s first foothold beyond the Bronze Gate by deploying War Fortresses and auxiliary anchor points into Destruction Time-Space. The fortresses held against the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast and the raging crystal tide, leaving the stable zone ready for further reinforcements.

• Saine sent three War Fortresses through the Bronze Gate, where they anchored themselves and linked their Final Silence halos to form a small stable zone.
• Mechanical Lifeforms repaired the fortresses and deployed observation towers, while the Evil Swamp vanguard fought Destruction Creatures and suffered catastrophic losses.
• The Lord of Eternal Day lamented the carnage, while Locke noted that the Evil Swamp forces’ losses would earn their side merit and future rewards.
• Saine coordinated the War Fortresses, Wuzhuo, and Star Mark to construct a sealing cage around the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast as it battered the fortresses.
• Saine ordered auxiliary anchor points deployed, and the surviving anchors connected to the fortresses, preventing the crystal tide from immediately tearing open the stable zone.

As Wuzhuo and Star Mark continued sealing the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast, the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast emerged and Blue-eyed Octopus intercepted it. Saine helped Blue-eyed Octopus survive a concentrated attack, while Locke observed that the damaged node had drawn another destruction powerhouse toward the entrance.

• The Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast awakened in Destruction Time-Space and approached the entrance after the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast's Rule Nodes were damaged.
• Blue-eyed Octopus confronted the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast, using his compound-eye rules to deflect its destructive gazes and buy time for Wuzhuo and Star Mark.
• The Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast redirected a concentrated beam at Blue-eyed Octopus, injuring its eyes and tentacles as destructive laws began to corrode it.
• Blue-eyed Octopus folded one of the beast's destructive beams back into its eye pupils, while Saine recognized the potential of its compound-eye laws for future observation technology.
• The Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast focused its attack through a giant vertical pupil, and Saine detonated a Final Silence Gray Seal to suppress the strike and help Blue-eyed Octopus retreat.
• Locke observed that the Destruction Crystal Tide had grown more active, while the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast was nearly sealed in the mechanical cage.

The Saiyan Legion entered Destruction Time-Space, where Kakarot and Vegeta fought the Black Flame Skeletonized Being while their warriors battled the surrounding Destruction Creatures. Saine concluded that the Level-12 beings did not cooperate and proposed luring them out and defeating them one by one.

• The Black Flame Skeletonized Being emerged from the Destruction Crystal Tide, and Saine raised its threat level.
• With Locke’s permission, Kakarot, Vegeta, and the Super Saiyan Legion entered the battlefield in their ordinary forms, following Saine’s warning not to transform or fuse.
• Kakarot punched the Black Flame Skeletonized Being backward, while Vegeta attacked its structural weak points and the Saiyan Legion fought the surrounding Destruction Creatures.
• The Saiyan Legion suffered casualties but kept fighting, and Saine observed that Kakarot’s restraint let the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast reach its final sealing stage.
• Saine concluded that the Level-12 beings were drawn by damaged Rule Nodes rather than cooperating, and proposed luring and killing them one by one; Locke accepted the tactic.

Saine’s forces captured the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast alive and used it as a Rule Anchor Point to stabilize the entrance to Destruction Time-Space. The Empty-Faced Burning Monarch awakened in response, forcing the alliance to prepare for a more dangerous battle while the Destruction Supreme remained a looming threat.

• Star Mark sealed the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast in Saine’s mechanical cage with help from Wuzhuo, the Final Silence Gray Seal, and the three War Fortresses.
• Wuzhuo stayed beside the cage to suppress the beast despite suffering severe damage from its counterattack, while Locke recognized its value and Saine credited both his experiments and Wuzhuo’s resilience.
• Saine designated the captured beast a living Rule Anchor Point and kept it in the entrance zone to stabilize the local Destruction Crystal Tide.
• Skynet detected the awakening of the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, whose threat exceeded the standard Level-12 Peak assessment and whose power could briefly contend with a Level-13 existence.
• Kakarot and Vegeta turned their attention toward the awakened monarch as the allied factions prepared for battle; Locke and Dao Ancestor Hongjun watched from beyond the Bronze Gate.
• Saine ordered Skynet to shift the war plan from vanguard probing to bridgehead consolidation, while Locke sensed that the Destruction Supreme could awaken next.

The Empty-Faced Burning Monarch reached the entrance zone, where its presence destabilized the War Fortresses and drew in the Destruction Crystal Tide. Kakarot challenged it alone, and his attacks briefly disrupted its connection to the phantom black obelisks as Locke watched and Saine recorded the battle.

• The Empty-Faced Burning Monarch’s arrival caused the phantom black obelisks to appear, destabilized the Final Silence Gray Mark Arrays, and damaged the three War Fortresses.
• Saine ordered Skynet to prioritize its observations while Locke watched from beyond the Bronze Gate.
• Kakarot transformed and charged the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, telling Vegeta to wait to fuse until the Destruction Supreme appeared.
• Kakarot and the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch exchanged blows, with each surviving the other’s attacks and Kakarot sustaining a wound.
• Kakarot struck the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch hard enough to force it half a step back, briefly shaking the connection between it and the phantom black obelisks.
• Saine ordered Skynet to record the obelisks’ changes, while Locke sensed that the Monarch drew part of its power from deep within Destruction Time-Space.

Vegeta and Kakarot continued fighting without revealing their fusion, while Saine studied the sealed Crystal Tide Wrath Beast as a living anchor point. The chapter left Saine balancing its activity against the danger it posed to the War Fortresses, as the battle and experiments continued.

• Kakarot refused to fuse with Vegeta, and Vegeta turned his frustration on the Black Flame Skeletonized Being.
• Vegeta discovered that the Black Flame Skeletonized Being's core briefly weakened when it reconstructed, then pierced its chest during that opening.
• Saine used the sealed Crystal Tide Wrath Beast to test how a living connection to the Destruction Crystal Tide could stabilize the entrance region.
• The beast's struggles contaminated mechanical circuitry, so Saine ordered the system isolated and adjusted the stabilizer model.
• Saine found that Final Silence Gray Seals wore down rapidly in battle and reported their higher-than-expected consumption to Envoy Jimin.
• Ashar and Lilith monitored the experiments, and Lilith warned Saine to keep the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast alive so it could remain an anchor point.

Agulos, Long Ga, and Lian Mo joined the battle in Destruction Time-Space as allied forces expanded their foothold around the three War Fortresses. Saine’s coalition began building a second defensive ring, leaving the war effort more organized but still dangerous and competitive.

• Agulos, Long Ga, and Lian Mo entered Destruction Time-Space with their legions to earn battlefield merits and rewards from Saine’s coalition.
• Agulos attacked a dense tide of destruction beasts, Long Ga defended the second War Fortress from fast-moving creatures, and Lian Mo accepted Saine’s assignment to lure a distant Level-12 fluctuation.
• Eternal Day Time-Space and Limitless Time-Space sent additional legions, with Jin Yi clearing low-level Destruction Creatures and Limitless teams gathering and processing valuable materials.
• The Evil Spirit King watched as his Temple Lords grew closer to Saine, while Locke prioritized securing the entrance zone for the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction.
• The allied forces expanded the three War Fortress positions into a bridgehead and began constructing a second defensive ring, establishing distinct roles for each faction despite occasional disputes.

Chen Yuan inferred from resource flows that the Destruction Divine Kingdom was attacking an extreme destruction-type time-space, while Saine negotiated with Final Silence Time-Space for supplies and observation data. Saine relayed Lord of Final Silence’s warning that Destruction Time-Space might assimilate Locke, and Locke said he understood.

• Chen Yuan traced resource movements and concluded that the Destruction Divine Kingdom was attacking an extreme destruction-type time-space, then decided to monitor its supply flows more closely.
• Envoy Jimin requested Destruction Time-Space observation data and samples for Final Silence Time-Space, and Saine negotiated for more Final Silence Gray Seals and Ash Crystals.
• Saine and Envoy Jimin arranged a confidential, staged exchange of supplies for Destruction Crystal Tide samples and observation data.
• Envoy Jimin warned Saine that Destruction Time-Space calling for Locke might mean assimilation rather than a gift.
• Saine created a Skynet project to assess assimilation risks and sent the warning to Locke, who replied that he understood.

Saine used the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast to develop tools for stabilizing the Destruction Crystal Tide and capturing other Destruction Creatures, while Bone Saliva endured the deadly battle at an observation tower. Beyond the Bronze Gate, Locke felt Destruction Time-Space calling him toward its increasingly visible throne.

• Saine studied the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast’s Destruction Rule feedback to develop the Crystal Tide Stabilizer and the Destruction Node Capturer.
• Bone Saliva watched the Mechanical and Saiyan legions fight the Destruction Creatures and recognized how deadly the expedition was.
• Bone Saliva led the remnants of its legion to defend an observation tower, suffered serious injuries, and received repairs from a Mechanical Lifeform.
• The legion held the observation tower, but fewer than ten percent of Bone Saliva’s troops survived, and Bone Saliva saw the Mechanical Civilization turn the dead into battlefield models.
• Locke sensed Destruction Time-Space calling him toward its depths and pointed the Spear of Destruction toward the shadow of the throne.

Kakarot fought the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch while Saine discovered that Dark Obelisk Phantoms sustained its armor and attacks. Saine’s forces disrupted that connection, dimming an obelisk phantom and opening the first breach in the enemy’s rule-feedback system.

• Kakarot repeatedly attacked the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, but the Dark Obelisk Phantoms restored its shattered armor through rule feedback.
• Saine analyzed the connection between the Monarch and the phantoms, then ordered artillery to target the phantoms and deployed Final Silence Gray Marks and Dimension-Severing Cage components to disrupt their links.
• The artillery and gray marks cracked an outer Dark Obelisk Phantom, briefly slowing the Monarch’s recovery and letting Kakarot blast it back for the first time.
• Saine’s forces continued firing until one Dark Obelisk Phantom dimmed, and Saine ordered Skynet to record the damage and map the rule connections.
• Locke watched the battle and considered how destruction might be directed and incorporated into order.

Agulos, Long Ga, and Lian Mo earned battlefield merit while helping defend and expand the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction’s bridgehead in Destruction Time-Space. Saine’s forces established a foothold, though the expansion cost the lower and middle ranks of the Evil Swamp Legion heavy casualties.

• Agulos killed a level-11 Destruction Creature attacking the transport corridor and sent its crystal-core fragments to Saine’s designated storage zone.
• Long Ga protected a Mechanical Anchor Point from swarming Destruction Creatures, and Saine recorded his achievement in Skynet’s merit sequence.
• Lian Mo lured the Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow toward Saine’s trap zone and sent him a guidance route after narrowly escaping its pursuit.
• A new batch of Final Silence Gray Seals reinforced the War Fortresses as allied legions expanded the stable zone into a true bridgehead.
• The expansion secured the faction’s foothold but caused severe casualties among the Evil Swamp Legion’s lower and middle ranks, which Saine recorded for future deployments.

Saine coordinated Vegeta and the War Fortress formations to sever the Dark Obelisk phantoms that were helping Empty-Faced Burning Monarch recover during its battle with Kakarot. The enemy began replacing the phantoms from the Black Flame Spire Cluster, and the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction continued suppressing it while Saine prioritized locating the cluster.

• Vegeta obeyed Locke's directive and attacked the Dark Obelisk phantoms after Saine identified their links to Empty-Faced Burning Monarch.
• Vegeta's strike disrupted Empty-Faced Burning Monarch long enough for Kakarot to land a heavy blow, while the Monarch retaliated and scorched Vegeta's shoulder.
• Saine ordered Vegeta and the War Fortress formations to time their attacks precisely, destroying several phantoms and slowing Empty-Faced Burning Monarch's recovery.
• Empty-Faced Burning Monarch adjusted its connections, and three replacement phantoms appeared from deeper within the Black Flame Spire Cluster.
• Saine ordered Wall-E to prioritize locating the cluster and instructed the forces to record the replacement cycle and keep suppressing the Monarch.
• Vegeta resumed attacking the new phantoms as Locke watched the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction maintain control of the battle's rhythm.

Saine modified the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast into a living anchor point, slowing the Destruction Crystal Tide and establishing a true Mechanical Civilization bridgehead in Destruction Time-Space. The foothold remained dangerous, but Saine saw a way to use other Level-12 Destruction Creatures to advance deeper into the realm.

• Saine fitted the struggling Crystal Tide Wrath Beast with reinforced mechanical cage rings and linked it to three War Fortresses.
• After the synchronization rate passed 30%, the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast slowed and diverted the Destruction Crystal Tide, stabilizing the entrance zone.
• Skynet and the legions organized the bridgehead with anchor points, artillery zones, transport corridors, supply points, and areas for wounded and resting troops.
• Spectators including Jin Yi and the Lord of Eternal Day recognized the bridgehead's importance as more legions gained a foothold and a retreat route.
• Saine warned the Mechanical Civilization's higher-ups that the living anchor point could strike back and ordered independent quarantine zones and emergency cutoff procedures.
• Saine concluded that the first-stage foothold had taken shape and considered capturing other Level-12 Destruction Creatures to use as living anchors.

The Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction gained ground in the entrance zone as its forces weakened two Level-12 destruction creatures and secured samples for Skynet. Saine set objectives for the next phase while Locke and the Mechanical Civilization prepared to exploit Destruction Time-Space’s deeper rule structure.

• Wuzhuo and Long Ga joined Blue-eyed Octopus against the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast, helping him severely wound it and retrieve a sample from its core pupil region.
• Vegeta, Star Mark, and Agulos coordinated their attacks to shatter a core rule bone fragment from the Black Flame Skeletonized Being, which the Mechanical Civilization secured in a containment chamber.
• Saine judged the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch the most dangerous remaining target and ordered Skynet to continue expanding the bridgehead, weaken the Dark Obelisk Phantom, and attempt another capture.
• Saine combined the creatures’ battlefield data and the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast’s anchor-point data to study how Destruction Time-Space’s rules connected.
• Locke remained silent beyond the Bronze Gate as Saine and the Mechanical Civilization prepared for a deeper campaign.

Saine and the Evil Swamp Temple Lords captured the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast alive and brought it into the Bridgehead under heavy restraint. Saine planned to study its destruction vision for an early-warning system, but its remaining power still made it too dangerous to integrate directly.

• Saine ordered Blue-eyed Octopus, Wuzhuo, and Long Ga to contain the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast and drive it into the prepared cage.
• The beast unleashed destruction rays across the containment perimeter, killing mechanical and Evil Swamp troops and injuring Long Ga and Blue-eyed Octopus before Saine’s forces sealed it inside the Mechanical Blockade Array.
• Saine directed Skynet to record the beast’s eye-opening patterns and planned to use it as a possible early-warning system after suppressing and modifying it.
• The sealed beast fired more beams while being transported, and the Earth Element Golden Wall Legion reinforced the supply route to prevent a breach.
• Long Ga warned that the mindless Level-12 destruction creatures could be as terrifying as they were difficult to stop.

Vegeta, Star Mark, and Agulos killed the Black Flame Skeletonized Being after its frantic reconstruction made capture impossible, triggering a dangerous upheaval across the battlefield. Saine gained valuable data for Skynet, while the battlefield was left with a hazardous black-flame contamination zone and increased pressure on the frontline.

• The Black Flame Skeletonized Being evaded Star Mark’s chains by shattering its bones and rebuilding itself elsewhere, while Agulos’s attacks strengthened its feedback from the Dark Obelisk Phantoms.
• Vegeta attacked the creature directly as Star Mark sealed off its possible reconstruction sites and Agulos severed its feedback pathways.
• The creature unleashed a deep black flame and rebuilt itself into a larger form, but Vegeta, Star Mark, and Agulos coordinated their attacks and destroyed it.
• The creature’s death disturbed the Dark Obelisk Phantoms and strengthened the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch against Kakarot, while Vegeta, Star Mark, and Agulos suffered damage.
• Saine ordered Wall-E to compare Skynet’s data on the creature’s reconstruction with the God of Machines’ module reassembly model.
• Black-flame bone ash contaminated the battlefield and affected collection teams, so the Limitless Golden Emperor withdrew low-level teams and the Mechanical Civilization sent unmanned cores to gather the material.

After the Black Flame Skeletonized Being fell, Saine’s forces recovered its Destruction Black Flame and rule-bone fragments, then agreed to distribute the research gains according to each faction’s contribution. Saine’s study of the flame revealed a way to explore localized collapse and reconstruction in the God of Machines, while the battles in Destruction Time-Space continued.

• The Mechanical Civilization sealed the Destruction Black Flame in a triple-layer containment vessel, and Saine ordered the recovered bones and combat records analyzed.
• Saine and the participating factions agreed that the Mechanical Civilization would safeguard and study the flame, then distribute research results and products according to contribution; Vegeta, Star Mark, and Agulos each requested specific benefits.
• Saine observed the flame transform fire rules into a bone pattern before collapsing back into flame, revealing its connection between destruction and skeletal reconstruction.
• Saine considered applying localized collapse and reconstruction to the God of Machines, while Wall-E recorded his deductions.
• The Empty-Faced Burning Monarch continued fighting Kakarot, and the Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow remained active in the trap zone.

Saine and the allied forces struggled to contain the Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow while more armies gathered at the entrance to Destruction Time-Space. The chapter ended with the war escalating beyond an initial probe, as Saine worked to establish a forward position before the Destruction Supreme awakened.

• The Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow turned on Lian Mo inside the trap zone, but Jin Yi, Eternal Day experts, and Mechanical Civilization artillery helped her escape and hem it in.
• Saine ordered more Level-12 fighters to reinforce the battlefield, including Bing Xin, the Moonlight Goddess, the Mountain Giant King, and Alarm Clock Girl.
• Alarm Clock Girl's Time Gear briefly slowed the Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow, allowing artillery to blast apart part of its scale-shadow, while Bing Xin's Water Mirrors redirected it and the Moonlight Goddess rescued allies.
• Storm Dragon Balhaine and Sword Demon arrived with Destruction Divine Kingdom forces, while other factions assembled legions near the entrance.
• Balhaine and Sword Demon joined the fighting, and Saine focused on securing a durable forward position before Destruction Time-Space's response intensified.

After the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction suppressed several Level-12 beings in Destruction Time-Space, the death of the Black Flame Skeletonized Being awakened the Destruction Supreme. Saine fortified the Bridgehead while Locke held his position outside the Bronze Gate, leaving the coming Dimension War imminent but not yet begun.

• Saine’s forces captured or contained the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast, the Hundred-Eyed Chaos Beast, and the Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow, while Vegeta, Star Mark, and Agulos killed the Black Flame Skeletonized Being.
• The Destruction Supreme awakened in response to the damaged nodes, intensifying the Destruction Crystal Tide and empowering the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch and other threats.
• Locke met the Destruction Supreme’s gaze across the Bronze Gate, but neither side attacked as their opposing forces began cracking the surrounding time-space.
• Saine ordered the Bridgehead into its highest defensive sequence and directed Alarm Clock Girl and Despair Matriarch Ilena to reinforce the boundary seal, while Locke stayed outside the gate.
• Saine’s forces reinforced containment zones and defensive lines as Kakarot held off the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch and allied reinforcements entered the Bridgehead.

After the Destruction Supreme awakened, the Destruction Crystal Tide surged throughout the entrance zone and forced the allied legions to halt their advance and defend the Bridgehead. Saine’s forces held the line, but Crystal Tide Alienation and dwindling defenses left the cost of surviving the counterattack uncertain.

• The awakened Destruction Crystal Tide overwhelmed Mechanical Civilization’s outer anchors, destabilized the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast, and threatened the Bridgehead.
• Saine ordered reinforcements and containment measures as the Mountain Giant King, Blue-eyed Octopus, Jin Yi, and the allied legions worked to hold the defenses.
• Saine suspended all outward expansion and ordered the frontline legions to stabilize the Bridgehead.
• After seven hourglasses of fighting, Saine identified Crystal Tide Alienation in Destruction Divine Kingdom warriors and ordered samples recovered for study.
• Saine layered Thomas’s Castle-Series Gear Module over the Mountain Giant King’s Earth Element Golden Wall to reinforce the Bridgehead, while the Final Silence Gray Seal, Skynet, and engineering forces continued to suffer heavy losses.

The Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow split into scale-shadows and partially escaped the Bridgehead’s trap, but Saine’s forces captured valuable samples. Saine ordered research into the scales’ traversal properties while the Bridgehead prepared for the intelligence the escape might carry into Destruction Time-Space.

• The Abyss-Scaled Swimming Shadow exploited cracks in the trap and scattered into scale-shadows, forcing Lian Mo to evade its attack.
• Alarm Clock Girl slowed a cluster with her Time Gear, and Bing Xin’s Water Mirrors misdirected the scale-shadows into the Mechanical Civilization’s cannonfire.
• Some scale-shadows escaped into the deeper dark starry sky, so Saine ordered Skynet to record their direction, secure the samples, and raise the creature’s threat level.
• Skynet struggled to reconstruct the creature’s movement from its shifting escape paths, while Saine divided the samples among material analysis, tracking research, and studies of time delay and Water Mirror refraction.
• Alarm Clock Girl identified temporary temporal marks on slowed scales, and Lian Mo requested recovery and withdrew from the first encirclement sequence.

Kakarot fought the newly empowered Empty-Faced Burning Monarch while Skynet detected sixteen Level-12 Origin of Destruction auras responding to the Destruction Supreme’s awakening. Saine concluded that the destruction nodes were tied to the Supreme and that dismantling them could weaken Destruction Time-Space, if the coalition survived their counterattack.

• The Destruction Supreme’s awakening strengthened the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch, but Kakarot continued to clash with it alone as Wuzhuo watched.
• Skynet detected sixteen Level-12 Origin of Destruction auras, prompting Saine and the others to assess the threat to their forces.
• The Boundary-Severing Bronze Corpse, Silent Wheel Burier, and Star-Shattering Moth Emperor approached the entrance zone with vast Destruction Legions.
• Saine created temporary files for the Ash Sea Singer and Sky-Rending Ash Ape, the two newly detected auras still farther away.
• Saine judged that Destruction Supreme was bound to the Level-12 destruction nodes and that destroying those nodes might help dismantle Destruction Time-Space.