In the 1,865th year after Gear Time-Space began its expansion, One-Winged Angel Saphir arrived at the God of Machines' fortress.
This was not Saphir's first time coming to Gear Time-Space.
After arriving, Saphir was quickly brought into the highest laboratory area where Saine was located.
At the time, Saine was conducting a set of Light Element Rules collision experiments.
The Light of the Giant released by Di'ersi Jia and a strand of diluted Radiance of Eternal Day kept colliding between two mechanical rings.
The two sides did not trigger a violent explosion.
Instead, an extremely bright Light Element Rules boundary line formed in the contact zone.
Saine was trying to use this boundary line to further clarify the differences between the two kinds of Light Element Rules.
Saphir, who had just arrived, did not disturb Saine.
He simply stood outside the Experimental Zone and waited quietly.
Only after this round of experiments ended did Saine turn to look at the One-Winged Angel.
"Lord Locke sent you?" Saine asked.
"Yes," Saphir replied.
Then he took out a sealed box wrapped in jet-black Destruction Rule and gentle moonlight essence.
After the sealed box was opened, an unremarkable length of tree branch appeared in front of Saine.
The branch was about the length of an arm.
There were not many leaves on its surface.
One end of it even already showed clear signs of withering.
But in Saine's vision, a thread of extremely faint moonlight essence rule still flowed deep within this branch.
What was even more unusual was that when Saine approached it with his Mental Strength, he actually sensed a vague, barely perceptible feeling of space-time drift from inside the branch.
It was as if the true body of this branch did not truly remain before his eyes.
It was only