What Saine had over Master Victor was the Magic Cube's boost to his analytical and computational power.
Of course, when facing the Endless Light Device before him, the Magic Cube within Saine revealed its strongest desire—not to analyze it, but to devour it.
Beyond the analytical assistance the Magic Cube provided Saine, another source of inspiration for his improvements to the Endless Light Device came from the Dimension Furnace Fragment of the Capricorn Empire.
It chiefly concerned the "Power Furnace Rule," one of the cutting-edge arcana now possessed by the head of Saine's Staff of Ashes.
Perhaps Saine could make some adjustments at the connection hub between the tail end of the Endless Light Launch Device and the Endless Crystal.
After all, Master Victor specialized in the more orthodox Mechanical Arcana of the Wizard World.
Since acquiring the Magic Cube, Saine had carved out a world of his own in the mechanical field through alchemy.
The angles from which they viewed things and Truth were inherently different.
From this perspective, it was no mistake for the Wizard World mechanics in those other secret bases to hold expectations for Saine.
Saine remained in the City of Steel for another five hundred years.
There was no need to elaborate on precisely what arcana he had analyzed and acquired in the City of Steel.
Judging solely from the results, Saine had shortened the usage cycle of the Endless Light Launch Device by another two hundred years beyond Master Victor's foundation.
Even when Saine departed, testing of the Endless Light Launch Device had not yet concluded.
However, Saine had already left behind relatively complete experimental data. The mechanics and Federation scientists in the secret base merely needed to conduct the tests step by step.
Even if some unforeseen accident arose in the final