The moment the Astral Network unleashed the System Punishment, the Darble Network condensed for a moment and captured all the power within the System Punishment.
Since the function of System Punishment was to punish the Host that revealed the existence of a System, it wouldn't stop until the Host was actually punished. Since the Darble Network captured it, the Astral Network shot out more System Punishment.
The Astral Network continued to shoot out System Punishment while the Darble Network continued to absorb it. Originally, if something like this happened, the Tell-Tale System would have interfered to find out the cause.
But with its death, there was no one to monitor the Astral Network. As a result, it continued through its established rules.
