Naige'er's third transmission appeared one hundred and seventy years later.
This interval was even longer than the previous two.
But when the familiar dark Mental Strength fluctuations appeared in Gear Time-Space again, they no longer landed on the outskirts of the Central Experimental Cluster, but directly above the Magic Cube.
The positioning had become more accurate.
The Magic Cube floating in the center of the laboratory rippled with rings of grayish-white Rule Ripples across its surface.
Saine had not actively transmitted any power to the Material Star Realm beforehand.
He had merely retrieved all the old rule records within the Magic Cube related to the Source Tracing Stone and kept them relatively active.
Yet to Naige'er on the other end, those subtle changes were evidently enough to serve as some sort of beacon.
After the dark Mental Strength fluctuations appeared, they did not disperse immediately as they had the previous two times.
To determine whether Naige'er was tracking the Magic Cube or Saine himself, Saine took the initiative to separate a Magic Cube projection containing Source Tracing Stone data during the twelfth hourglass after the experiment began.
This projection had no combat capability whatsoever.
Escorted by a mechanical transport convoy, it left the Central Experimental Cluster at top speed and headed toward another Mechanical Starfield in Gear Time-Space.
Saine himself remained where he was.
At first, the black speck of light above the Magic Cube did not change.
But when the projection crossed the third Rule Belt of Gear Time-Space, the black speck suddenly shifted some distance to the side.
Naige'er had noticed the projection's existence.
However, compared to the main body of the Magic Cube before Saine, the fluctuations from the Source Tracing Stone that projection could provide were far too weak.
The black speck wavered back and forth