"Rejected..." Luo's face was expressionless. She no longer looked toward Rimuru, merely sending the application again with a simple question attached.
"Why?"
Clearly, she felt that... although Rimuru had indeed harmed Amishir from twenty thousand years ago because of time, it was also because of him that Amishir had understood its weakness so early and desperately searched for an answer—she did not hope that she could truly provide that answer, but at the very least, she felt Amishir should not remain so silent and dormant.
Stubbornly, she kept sending her thoughts to the central core. Perhaps the persistence and determination in her heart received a response from it. In the end, although the command core still did not approve her request, it gave a response for once.
"The answer... is still missing a part... missing a part... a part..."
"Which part?!" Luo nearly shouted aloud. She stubbornly lifted her little face and nervously glanced toward Rimuru. Only after seeing that Phoenix was still wasting words with Rimuru did she relax slightly, but she continued to "defy" the command tower without hesitation.
Yet the command tower core fell silent.
No matter how she called out, she could no longer receive a response from the highest authority consciousness—instead, she received other orders.
The core security defense system had detected that a numbered world was being targeted by an unknown force. Since Luo happened to be stranded in this world, she was required to serve as the coordinate center for establishing an information-scanning transmission node. However, the current location had been sealed off by an unrelated force and was saturated with energy that the highest authority consciousness had determined was "sufficient to destroy the current Machine Clan body." Therefore, the highest authority consciousness—the command tower core itself—ordered her to retreat to a safe