The price of seeking aid

Deep within the Everbright Ark, Miluo's voice gradually faded.

All the high-ranking members of the surrounding Flame Civilization looked in the direction where Saine was.

They knew, of course, that getting a strange Mechanical God Emperor to risk offending the Source-Devouring Time-Space again to help the Lost World Alliance was not something that could be done with a simple request.

Moreover, Saine and the Flame Civilization had only recently come into contact.

There wasn't even the most basic trust established between the two sides.

"To what extent do you want me to help?" Saine asked with interest.

"Should we save the civilizations that just sent the message, or let the Mechanical Civilization wage a full-scale war against the Source-Devouring Time-Space?"

Miluo remained silent for a moment.

"The Lost World Alliance is not qualified to demand that you wage a full-scale war against the Source-Devouring Time-Space."

"I only hope that you can rescue those civilizations that still have a chance to evacuate," Miluo replied.

Saine did not respond immediately.

Mechanical light screens unfolded around him.

The chaotic footage captured from the third signal was then reassembled frame by frame by Skynet.

Besides the aura of the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch, Saine also discovered at least seven Source-Devouring Beast Mother Nest and several interdimensional veins that were not yet fully activated.

This time, the Source-Devouring Time-Space is clearly not just a simple pursuit.

They are prepared to completely clear out all the exposed settlements of the remnants of the fallen dynasty!

If Mechanical Civilization intervenes, it will inevitably clash with the Source-Devouring Time-Space once again.

However, Saine was considering more than just the risks involved in this rescue.

The members of the Lost World Alliance come from different Dimensional Plane.

The Rule Materials, technologies, and war records they possessed were mostly things that Saine had never encountered before.

Even these survivors themselves were, to him, a group of extremely valuable Different Dimensional Plane.

Especially those creatures that have adapted to the broken spacetime and the environment of the Source-Devouring Pasture.

The changes in their life structures that occurred over the long years were enough to bring Saine many new insights into Truth.

What concerned Saine even more was that the way the Lost World Alliance communicated with each other did not entirely rely on the channels left by the Source-Devouring Time-Space.

Some civilizations that have lost their Mother Time-Space have developed their own unique methods of time and space location during their escape.

Other civilizations have mastered special rules to evade the monitoring of the Source-Devouring Mother Nest.

Individually, none of these methods might be considered particularly powerful.

However, if it can be absorbed and organized by Mechanical Civilization and Saine Saen's Node Engineering system, its role will be completely different.

The intelligence networks secretly operated by the Lost World Alliance in the Source-Devouring Pasture also allow the Mechanical Civilization to see many things that cannot be obtained through direct warfare alone.

Based on this alone, Saine has a reason to make a move.

Saine's willingness to accept the Lost World Alliance was certainly not due to mere goodwill.

Those survivors need help.

And what they possess happens to bring benefits to Saine.

"Mechanical Civilization don't send troops without compensation," Saine said.

"I want the coordinates of the Source-Devouring Pasture, the legion deployments, the conquest records possessed by the Lost World Alliance, and the Different Dimensional Plane technology you've preserved."

"This is merely the basic condition for Mechanical Civilization to initiate rescue operations."

"The civilizations that are rescued will then need to pay a corresponding price in the form of resources, technology, or long-term intelligence services."

"Even to become our vassals," Saine said.

Miluo was not angered by Saine's words.

Over the past million years, the Lost World Alliance has witnessed far too many powerful civilizations taking advantage of others' misfortunes.

At least Saine made his demands clear and explicit.

Furthermore, he did not propose that all these rescued civilizations unconditionally submit to the Mechanical Civilization.

"I can agree on behalf of the Flame Civilization," Miluo said.

"As for other civilizations, I will convey your demands to them in full."

"Only those willing to accept the conditions will receive rescue," Saine said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Skynet immediately took over the Communication Device that the Everbright Ark had just used.

Coordinates preserved by the Flame Civilization over the past million years began to appear one by one on the mechanical light screen.

Many coordinates have fallen into complete silence.

The civilizations they represent have either perished or left their original hiding places.

Currently, only seventeen coordinates are still responding to.

The states of these coordinates are also different.

Some could only transmit extremely vague fluctuations of the rules, while others had already begun to actively move closer to the Everbright Ark.

Behind one of the signals, there are even the life imprints of five different civilizations simultaneously.

They had clearly come together temporarily during their long escape.

However, Saine did not expand the scope of this round of rescue efforts as a result.

The Mechanical Civilization is completely unaware of the actual situation in those distant regions. Opening too many channels at the same time would only cause the situation to spiral out of control.

First, rescue the civilization in the Remnant Star Remnant Domain and confirm that the reverse rescue system is operating stably before considering other coordinates.

The two locations closest to the Darkness Sword Time-Space happen to be within the shattered Dimensional Plane from which the war footage was just transmitted.

"Remnant Star Time-Space..."

Miluo looked at the constantly flickering gray starry sky and said.

"That is a Higher Dimensional Plane that was invaded by the Source-Devouring Time-Space even earlier than the Suiming Time-Space."

"Most of the survivors still living there today are concentrated in the Remnant Star Remnant Domain."

"Leading them is Remnant Star King Atar."

A tall creature wielding a staff of broken rules quickly appeared before Saine.

Atar possesses the peak Life Level Level-11 Peak.

Half of his body had turned an almost transparent grayish-white.

That is not a characteristic of any particular race.

Rather, it is a phenomenon of rule decay resulting from living in an environment of depleted origins for a long time.

Behind Atar were even more other Civilization Race.

The Remnant Star Remnant Domain was clearly inhabited by more than one remnant civilization.

"Have him send over the complete navigation logs, the remaining population size, and the coordinates of the usable passageways," Saine said.

Miluo immediately began contacting Atar.

At the same time, Saine was also considering the subsequent resettlement of these survivors.

The Darkness Sword Time-Space is clearly unsuitable.

Ebony will not allow numerous Different Dimensional Plane civilizations to live in its Mother Time-Space for an extended period.

Saine also has no intention of bringing these civilizations with complex origins directly back to the Gear Time-Space.

The Main Camp of Mechanical Civilization is not a place anyone can enter.

The truly suitable place to house the Lost World Alliance is the Primordial Universe Time-Space.

It possesses the most expansive cosmic map of Multiverse that Saine has ever encountered.

Numerous Different Dimensional Plane Forces are intertwined with the Homeland Civilization.

The appearance of alien civilizations in the Primordial Universe Time-Space is not a rare occurrence.

More importantly, the Darkness Sword Organization had recently ceded a large number of Star Sector to the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction.

The Ebony Legion in those Star Sector is gradually withdrawing.

A portion of it can be allocated to house the Lost World Alliance.

"Are you about to embark on another new cross-dimensional journey?"

A vast amount of Power of Dark Rules gathered on the outer side of the Everbright Ark.

Then, the projection of Ebony appeared.

This Lord of Dimension the Darkness Sword Time-Space Dimension has clearly been paying close attention to the exchanges between the Mechanical Civilization and the Flame Civilization.

"Only once," Saine replied.

"After rescuing the civilizations that can be saved, I will close all the passages."

"They can't stay here," Ebony said coldly.

"I wasn't planning on leaving them here anyway."

"These survivors will be sent to the Primordial Universe Time-Space," Saine said.

Upon hearing this, Ebony's expression grew even more somber.

He could certainly guess where Saine planned to place the Lost World Alliance.

Those Star Sector ceded by the Darkness Sword Organization are theoretically no longer related to Ebony.

Moreover, the World Civilization in the Primordial Universe Time-Space that did not join large power groups were accustomed to coexisting with different races.

What the Lost World Alliance needs is a starry sky where it can reproduce anew, not to immediately establish a new Higher Dimensional Plane power.

As long as they do not exhibit excessive expansionism in the initial stages, surrounding civilizations will likely view them more as new trading partners.

Saine had even planned to have the Wealth Goddess Wojin, handle the subsequent resource settlement and starfield development.

For this group of exiled civilizations to truly settle down, the price they will have to pay is far greater than this immediate rescue.

But compared to continuing to live on the Source-Devouring Pasture, at least they were able to regain control of their own destiny.

But seeing that Mechanical Civilization was preparing to fill the void in this way, Ebony still felt quite unhappy.

"This is my Mother Time-Space."

"I will not allow a passage that could attract the Source-Devouring Time-Space Army to exist indefinitely," Ebony said.

"The complete Mother Nest and its corresponding nodes now belong to the Mechanical Civilization."

"That's also written in the Rule Contract you signed," Saine said calmly.

The oppressive power of the God of Machines' rules slowly rippled outwards from the outside of the Everbright Ark.

Ebony stared at Saine for a long time.

He ultimately did not continue arguing about the right to use the passage, only stating that all the rescued survivors must leave the Darkness Sword Time-Space as soon as possible.

Saine had no objection to this.

The first messages from Atar also arrived at the Everbright Ark at this time.

In addition to the complete coordinates of the Remnant Star Remnant Domain, there is also a well-organized list of civilizations and Resource List.

The other side clearly understood what the Mechanical Civilization wanted.

"The Remnant Star Civilization accepts your conditions." Atar's will emanated from the flickering gray light screen.

"We will hand over all the preserved records of the Devouring Source War."

"I just hope that Mechanical Civilization can open the passage as soon as possible."

In the scene behind Atar, the bright yellow tide had already crossed the two outermost Star Sector of the Remnant Star Remnant Domain.

Time is running out for them.

Saine raised his hand to close the light screen.

"Activate the Mother Nest."

"Construct a reverse rescue channel!"