These two civilization leaders had the "Archivist" to thank for its infinite archiving.
It had archived not only themselves, but also their two civilizations.
That was why, despite having been touched by the slightest trace of "Corruption," the two civilizations had remained safe and sound.
After returning to their civilization coordinates and confirming that their civilizations were unharmed, the two immediately logged into the Civilization Council, trying to find out what had happened in the observable universe while they were away.
The result? They had no idea until they looked—and then they were terrified!
The Mechanical Uprising, the world of Infinite Powerhouses, the destruction of the Olden Days, Corpse Rain...
These were not the only cosmic disasters. There were also the chain disasters triggered by them.
Take the "Mechanical Uprising" alone. In just over a decade, it had sparked civilization wars between tens of thousands of mechanical and non-mechanical civilizations. Moreover, the ones whose conflicts had escalated to the Civilization Council were basically all Ascendant-level civilizations.
Quite a few were even advanced civilizations.
After all, being able to withstand the "Mechanical Uprising" and still fight back was something no ordinary Ascendant civilization could accomplish.
The causes of these civilization wars were also largely the same: conflicts between the mechanical civilizations caught up in the uprising and other civilizations.
And without a doubt, some "miscarriages of justice" had been mixed in among them.
If you claimed that they had been infected by the Mechanical Uprising, they would deny it one hundred percent.
But if you truly believed they had not been infected, they might just "rise up" for real.
After all, the evolution known as the "Mechanical Uprising" undoubtedly belonged to a "top-level civilization." To decipher it, one needed technology of the same level to fight technology of the same level.