Particles were always vibrating, and time kept flowing on.
A thousand years had passed since humanity discovered the phenomenon of the Microscopic High Dimension. Over that long span, Human Civilization had acquired more and more data related to Quantum Exile. But characteristic technology truly deserved its name. Even a thousand years had not been enough for humanity to fully master it, much less put it into practical use.
Although progress was made almost every year, it was simply too difficult. Every advance seemed to drain the strength of the entire Human Civilization.
If characteristic technology were compared to a boss with an absurdly huge health bar, then every advance humanity made was like biting down on the boss with all its might, only to shave off a single point of health.
Over the past thousand years, Human Civilization had put numerous technologies into use, including the Space Cutting Weapon, new Warp Engine technology, Void Strike, and new Tachyon Detection Technology. Even the method for constructing a Small Universe was nearing completion. Yet full mastery of characteristic technology still progressed slowly.
The situation had remained this way for so long that the human Interstellar Government had begun to wonder whether five thousand years would be enough to complete the construction of the New Lyra. After all, mastering characteristic technology was only the first step; turning it into an actual creation would inevitably be an extremely lengthy process.
But when they thought of how the Divine Matrix Civilization had endured for hundreds of thousands of years, the human Interstellar Government found peace with it. By comparison, humanity's progress in discovering and mastering characteristic technology was already fast enough.
So fast that even the Divine Matrix Civilization found it somewhat abnormal. During their exchanges with humanity, Divine Matrix Civilization scientists had more than