Saine's transaction with the Lord of Evil Swamp was soon formally established.
The Lord of Evil Swamp permitted Saine to study the Rule Fragments he had seized from the Source-Devouring Progenitor.
While he could still remain conscious, he would also actively cooperate with Saine in completing certain experiments.
In return, Saine would design a deeper Will Stabilization and rule noise-reduction system based on the Lord of Evil Swamp's actual condition.
Destruction Demon God Locke would likewise provide some assistance throughout the process.
The power of Emotion-type Rules he wielded could help the Lord of Evil Swamp stabilize his consciousness and slow the rate at which he fell back into delirium.
Their cooperation was not made public.
However, the Evil Spirit King and the Level-12 Temple Lords of the Evil Swamp Time-Space soon learned the general details.
The Evil Spirit King displayed no opposition to this.
The fact that the Lord of Evil Swamp had not immediately settled accounts with him was already a good thing.
If Saine could truly help the Lord of Evil Swamp prolong his periods of lucidity, it would still pose risks to the Evil Spirit King, but at least it would give both sides a chance to communicate in the future.
What the Evil Spirit King had truly feared was never a Lord of Dimension capable of making his own judgments.
It was that extreme monster, utterly impossible to communicate with and liable at any moment to be driven by instinctive rules into launching an attack.
Saine's experiments in the Evil Swamp Time-Space continued for more than two thousand years.
To study the Lord of Evil Swamp, the Mechanical Civilization specifically constructed an immense experimental complex deep within the Evil Swamp Time-Space.
Those laboratories were not built directly near the Lord of Evil Swamp's true