After returning to Gear Time-Space, Saine's life once again returned to its original three-point routine, plain yet filled with his own sense of order.
Most of the time, Saine devoted himself to research in his private laboratory, freely roaming the vast ocean of Truth Arcana. Dim glimmers of Dimensional Rules flowed across his fingertips. Every experimental breakthrough and every refinement of theory deepened his understanding of the entire multiverse by another degree.
Occasionally, he spared a portion of his attention to closely monitor the current situation on every front of Gear Time-Space through the laboratory's dimensional observation device. After all, this cross-dimensional war had never truly ceased.
Besides that, he always deliberately set aside ample time to accompany his wives, family, and children, casting off the majesty and burden of the Mechanical God Emperor to become a gentle husband and father.
Saine had also specially chosen names for the several little fellows newly born into the family. Their surname naturally remained Grant, following Saine and carrying on the family's mark.
However, when it came to their given names, most of Saine's wives came from different World Civilizations, with utterly different Civilization Foundations and naming traditions. Therefore, he had deliberately followed the styles of each wife's mother civilization, allowing every child's name to bear a unique mark of civilization.
For example, the children born to Little Tenth and Zi You would, thanks to the Civilization Foundations and family legacies behind their mothers, most likely take on the responsibilities of the Minghe Empire and Evil Tide Civilization in the future, becoming the helmsmen of those two great civilizations.
As for the specific state of the war in Gear Time-Space, with Saine's true body successfully returning to Gear Time-Space, the intensity of this Dimension War remained in that neither-hot-nor-cold state. The anticipated all-out