Although High Engineer had dealt with the Space-Time Administration for years in his previous life, those dealings had been limited to cracking down on prostitution.
If you asked when the other side was going to launch such an operation, how large it would be, or how frequently it would happen,
High Engineer knew all the answers.
But aside from that, he could not claim to have any deep understanding of this department directly subordinate to the Civilization Council.
Still, while exchanging intelligence with the leaders of several ascended civilizations, he had heard more than once that the Space-Time Administration possessed some unique powers.
Some of these authorities concerning the main universe were even beyond the reach of level-nine civilizations.
At the time, High Engineer had not exactly sneered at this claim, but he had not believed it much, either.
After all, if they could not even crack down on a level-six leader like him, then any so-called authority they possessed was probably very limited.
But High Engineer's transmigration point had been the moment when the Three Great Calamities had already conquered the main universe and the fall of the level-nine civilizations had become inevitable.
Moreover, as the six lofty Ultimate Civilizations retreated in defeat, intelligence belonging to civilizations of that level kept leaking out.
This was top-level intelligence that could never have been revealed during an age of peace.
Even level-nine civilizations betrayed one another.
Even level-nine civilizations fought among themselves.
Even level-nine civilizations failed to evolve.
It went without saying that the level-nine civilizations belonging to the four major systems were constantly locked in conflict. Their battles simply did not take place in the main universe, but in the multiverse; not along the main timeline, but in every branch outside it, especially those spacetime branches where civilizations could not