Saine remained in Final Silence Time-Space even longer than he had initially anticipated.
This was not because Final Silence Time-Space had restricted his movements.
Quite the opposite—ever since the Lord of Final Silence had officially opened part of the Royal Court's data to Saine, Envoy Jimin and the many Transcendence Realm experts of Final Silence Time-Space had cooperated with him far more fully than they had during their initially cautious contact.
Of course, that cooperation still carried Final Silence Time-Space's customary restraint. They would not lay all their trump cards bare for Saine to see.
Likewise, Saine would not hand over all the Truth Arcana mastered by Mechanical Civilization to Final Silence Time-Space without reservation.
Both sides understood clearly that they were now in a cooperative relationship, but were still far from being allies who could entrust each other with their very foundations.
Yet for Saine, this was already enough.
The data provided by Final Silence Time-Space was truly rare.
A Higher Dimensional Plane that knew its own Origin Rules carried a risk of extremization, yet could still maintain lucid order through the long years—such a special specimen was something Saine had never encountered before.
Over the past nearly thousand years, Saine had devoted more than half his energy to the continued refinement of Final Silence Civilization's noise reduction system.
Temporary Observation Arrays from Mechanical Civilization had successively been left deep within the Final Silence Royal Court, along the outer perimeter of the Silent Ring, at the edge of the Gray Tide Lowland,
and at several other special Rule Nodes in Final Silence Time-Space.
Most of these arrays would not be retained for long.
Final Silence Time-Space did not wish for Skynet's tendrils from Mechanical Civilization to linger too long in the depths of this time-space.
Saine did not insist,