Waiting, Learning

Thus, the Machine Race needed a means of annihilating the enemy's top-tier forces, and the Return-to-Ruins Giant Cannon had been prepared for precisely that purpose.

The Return-to-Ruins Giant Cannon did not have a large area of destruction. Though it was called a cannon, it had nothing to do with ordinary artillery. It was a conceptual-collapse weapon.

It collapsed every concept within its attack range. In other words, so long as a concept existed, it fell within its range of attack. No matter how unimaginable that concept was, given sufficient power, it could shatter it.

This had long surpassed attacks based on laws, because laws themselves were also a kind of concept.

The eternity of the Eternal Fortress was merely a concept as well. That was precisely why it could shatter an Eternal Fortress, though the two had never truly clashed.

Just as discussing snake venom without discussing the dosage was sheer hooliganism, the Return-to-Ruins Giant Cannon might have been powerful, but its confrontation with an Eternal Fortress still depended on the strength of both sides. Whether one shot could shatter one Eternal Fortress, or several, could only be determined through an actual clash.

However, constructing a Return-to-Ruins Giant Cannon was no easier than constructing an Eternal Fortress, and it was gone after a single use. The Machine Civilization would not squander it carelessly.

So far, there had only been one attack by a Return-to-Ruins Giant Cannon, and that single shot had directly taken out three hundred and fifty-eight Eighth-Order existences.

It had directly reversed the outcome of a large-scale war.

Although the Return-to-Ruins Giant Cannon could not completely erase Eighth-Order existences, its deterrent power was beyond question.

The power of the Return-to-Ruins Giant Cannon could be adjusted. During that attack, even the Machine Civilization had lacked experience. Though they could