Setting out for the Myriad Springs World Cluster once more, Saine and his group traveled even faster than before.
The God of Evening Drool was also quite sensible. After reaching the Flowing Water Plane, he merely had someone deliver the ransom and did not even enter the plane himself.
The members of the God of Evening Drool's merchant caravan also set off alongside Saine and the others.
It seemed that doing so could dispel any suspicion that they had leaked information.
Saine returned the favor by removing the Magic Shackles that had originally restricted the God of Evening Drool's freedom.
At least after the God of Evening Drool paid the ransom, he had regained his freedom on the surface.
Another twenty-one years passed.
Saine and the others finally reached the border of the Myriad Springs World Cluster.
That lengthy voyage through the stars made it clear that interstellar travel and interstellar trade were truly not something ordinary low-level lifeforms could undertake.
An ordinary creature could spend its entire life paying the costs of the journey. What a tragic thing that was.
The main reason was that the batch of cosmic vessels Saine and the others had seized was of poor quality. Had they been Wizard Civilization Space Fortresses capable of uninterrupted spatial jumps, the travel time could have been reduced to at least one-third.
It was also on the eve of reaching the Myriad Springs World Cluster's border that Saine finally recovered to his peak condition.
Through Crystal Ball testing and more detailed experimental observations in other areas, Saine discovered that his physical qualities, Mental Strength, and total magic power had all increased considerably compared with before the Moduoluola Star Region war.
Especially in terms of physique, after being "carved into a thousand pieces" by Spacetime Turbulence, Saine's ability to