When the transparent crystal appeared before Saine again, it had already spent more than thirty years in Source-Devouring Time-Space.
A slowly flowing wisp of darkness power could still be seen inside the crystal.
Compared with when it had first been sent away, that wisp of power had weakened considerably. Yet when the World-Realm Emperor Monarch drew it out, the expanse of bright yellow radiance on the other side of the light screen still dimmed.
"It can be used now," the World-Realm Emperor Monarch said.
Saine enlarged the image and examined the erosion around the crystal's edges before slowly nodding.
"This batch can withstand about this much. If you put it directly where your origin is most concentrated, I'm afraid it wouldn't even last this long."
At that, the World-Realm Emperor Monarch put the crystal away.
He certainly would not dismiss the results before him because of such limitations. Before this, when the same material entered Source-Devouring Time-Space, it often lost its original properties before it could even be put to proper use.
Now, at least some of them could be preserved!
After several hundred years of cooperation, they had finally achieved results that could be put to practical use.
Saine did not lay out every step of the repeated adjustments before the World-Realm Emperor Monarch. He only handed over the agreed-upon processing method, along with a list of several additional materials required. The payment from the other party was soon delivered to Gear Time-Space through their existing trade channels.
The largest portion, naturally, consisted of resources produced in Source-Devouring Time-Space.
When the Transport Platform opened its internal space, even the Mechanical Units that had come to receive the shipment had to be dispatched in batches to move out the sealed goods one after another.
Wojin soon sent personnel to handle