Roamer guided them through the complicated, high-tech-looking pathways, heading for somewhere they could talk peacefully.
The corridors were wide and immaculately clean, lit by strips of pale blue light running along the floor and ceiling like veins carrying electricity instead of blood. No dust, no scuff marks, no sign that anything biological had ever passed through here.
It had the feeling of a place that had never needed to accommodate the mess of being alive.
And along the way, Axel noticed that there were no living beings present in the vicinity. He even used his senses, spread them far and wide, but couldn't find even a single thread of life
Everything in this dimension consisted of living machines, not biological beings. The realization settled over him quietly. An entire civilization of them, running an Imperium, trading weapons across the multiverse—and not a single heartbeat anywhere in earshot.
After a while, they arrived at a suitable location.
