The more one got, the more one wanted.
Originally, it meant forging ahead and making the right decisions. Over time, it gradually became a sarcastic phrase for people who never knew contentment and always wanted more. It was practically synonymous with greed.
Humanity now felt the same way about the sciences it sought to master. It had already confirmed that it could understand the Awakeners' characteristic technology, yet the scientists remained unsatisfied and turned their attention toward the Precursor's characteristic technology.
However hard humanity tried, it still could not understand the Precursor Artifact. It could not comprehend how the Precursor had made macroscopic objects undergo quantum tunneling, much less master it.
Numerous scientific teams had worked at it for centuries, yet they remained stuck in place.
It seemed that humanity, as a race, was not omnipotent after all.
Still, compared to the Daya Civilization, it was an undeniable fact that humanity possessed its own characteristic technology. Even if it could make no further progress in the field of mental consciousness, humanity could still claim that its characteristic technology was on par with the Awakeners'.
That alone was enough to place humanity near the peak of the Level Six Civilization pyramid.
After learning that humanity possessed the technology to build warships capable of super evasion like the Awakeners, the Daya Civilization was extremely envious. Even though humanity had already told them that they could not use such equipment, they still could not help repeatedly asking to buy it.
There was no other reason. They simply refused to give up.
Humanity did not reject them outright. However, it stated that it could only sell the equipment after fully mastering and manufacturing it itself. After all, it could not transfer equipment given by the Awakeners to the Daya Civilization.
As for the terms