Festival of Lights · Diwali
Saine led an expedition through the Bronze Gate to map Destruction Time-Space and study its creatures, while Locke resisted its call to claim the empty throne. The forces withdrew after confronting the Destruction Supreme, and Saine began cataloging ten Level-12 enemies as Locke prepared for a larger campaign.
Saine expanded the Mechanical Civilization’s influence, investigated threats and rule-based powers, and built closer ties with Final Silence Time-Space. As Locke prepared another expedition into the Destruction Time-Space, Saine organized a coalition to secure the Bronze Gate and establish a foothold before attacking the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast.
Saine’s coalition fought and captured Destruction creatures while building a fortified bridgehead inside Destruction Time-Space. The Destruction Supreme awakened, the Bridgehead came under pressure, and sixteen Level-12 auras converged on the entrance as Locke faced the Supreme across the Bronze Gate.
Saine’s forces studied and contained the Level-12 Destruction Creatures while Locke prepared to confront the Destruction Supreme. Locke, the other Lords of Dimension, and Hongjun entered the conflict as the battle exposed a special destruction core deep within Destruction Time-Space.
Saine and the allied forces weakened the Destruction Supreme by disrupting its supporting nodes, while Saine uncovered the ancient Realm-Suppressing Ring and the danger posed by the Destruction Heart Core. The arc left Locke and Saine beginning a staged effort to claim stable territory in Destruction Time-Space without absorbing the core.
Saine and Locke used the Realm-Suppressing Ring, the Creation God’s power, and allied forces to weaken the Destruction Supreme, seize a foothold, and withdraw with five sealed nodes. After regrouping, they concealed their strength and prepared an ambush for Chen Yuan’s probing army in Demon Cave Time-Space, where Luo Heng’s vanguard was caught and battered.
Saine’s faction defeated Chen Yuan’s forces, captured Luo Heng, and used the spoils of battle to develop the Destruction Mechanical Legion and a noise-reduction system for Final Silence Time-Space. Saine’s research then uncovered evidence linking Source-Devouring Remnants to the Dead Silent Dimension and pointed toward Source-Devouring Time-Space.
Saine pursued his research across several time-spaces while expanding the Evil Swamp project and arranging the Clear River delegation’s first contacts. The delegation uncovered Source-Devouring Veins draining a starfield, and Saine began coordinating a wider investigation with Clear River’s powers.
Saine and the Clear River civilizations uncovered an expanding Source-Devouring invasion, then coordinated allied forces to seal channels and sever the invaders’ veins. When the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch arrived, Saine’s God of Machines checked its advance and the Clear River legions rallied.
Saine coordinated Clear River Time-Space’s defense, captured the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor, and developed Anti-Source-Devouring Nodes that helped the allied forces reclaim territory. Locke’s arrival drove back the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch, but the Source-Devouring Progenitor renewed the assault and clashed with Locke as another Emperor Monarch’s channel neared completion.
The allied forces of Clear River Time-Space fought the Source-Devouring Progenitor on multiple fronts, using the Destruction Gate, new allies, and coordinated assaults to destroy channels and blunt the invasion. The Lord of Final Silence entered Source-Devouring Time-Space as Saine’s forces reclaimed territory and began studying captured Channel Cores for a route back to the enemy’s realm.
Saine opened a Reverse Passage into Source-Devouring Time-Space, brought allied armies into the counterattack, and drew the Lord of Evil Swamp into the war. The allies withdrew with their spoils and erased their escape routes, while the Lord of Evil Swamp escaped with a fragment of the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s Rule Crystal.
Saine studied the Lord of Evil Swamp, expanded trade and research, and helped Locke claim new Destruction territories while Source-Devouring Time-Space quietly built ties with Dark Nether Death God’s group. Saine also established contact with Naige’er across time, as the Destruction Supreme renewed its assault on Locke’s mark.
Locke and Saine turned captured destruction creatures and the Fragment Star Emperor’s surviving connections into a campaign that secured the fourth Destruction Star Zone. Meanwhile, Saine expanded cautious resource exchanges and research, and the closing chapters followed trade networks adapting to the war’s aftermath.
Saine expanded his work across Evil Swamp and Source-Devouring Time-Space while the Eternal Day Legion broke the Darkness Sword Organization’s blockade. Locke captured the Erosion Abyss Mother Nest, used its swarms to expand his territory, and left the Destruction Supreme pushed back as his power reached Level-13 Late-Stage.
Saine reached Level-12 Peak, drove Ebony from the front, and expanded the Mechanical Civilization’s trade and military presence. As Locke and Saine pushed back the Destruction Supreme, resource disputes drew the Source-Devouring Legion and other powers into new conflicts, while Saine’s agreements left Luo Heng monitoring the boundaries of a Delivery Zone.
Locke moved the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast into Paradise Lost, then led the Destruction Divine Kingdom’s invasion of the Darkness Sword Space. Ebony’s pleas brought the Source-Devouring forces and several outside powers into the war, leaving Locke and Saine facing an expanding coalition as more allies began to arrive.
Saine and his allies forced the Source-Devouring forces out of Darkness Sword Time-Space, then discovered the Flame Civilization and its ties to the Lost World Alliance. Saine agreed to rescue endangered civilizations in exchange for their records and resources, and the arc ended as the evacuation of Remnant Star faced the arrival of the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch.
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