Asking for Them

After several years of modifications, they were finally complete. Humanity had also used those years to familiarize themselves with the Warp Space Enhancement Device's operating instructions. The device's design was remarkably suited to ordinary human habits, without much that was too difficult to understand. Once its system language had been converted, humanity quickly started it through the physical controls at its activation console.

It was shaped like a rhomboid crystal over nine hundred meters tall, with its control panel located around its middle. Since it stood inside the Lyra's engine room, humanity had specifically installed an elevator leading to the operating platform while modifying the engine room.

Once the device was activated, its previously empty operating platform was filled with holographic screens formed from light screens. Human engineers began operating those screens, and as command after command was entered, the enormous rhomboid crystal began to move.

Its crystalline upper and lower ends, as clear and dazzling as diamonds, began to part like blooming flowers. Then cables of some unknown material extended outward. From afar, they resembled an octopus stretching out its tentacles, reaching upward and downward to connect with the interfaces humanity had prepared.

The upper end connected to the positive electrode in humanity's engine room, while the lower end connected to the negative electrode.

Yes, ordinary positive and negative electrodes. Even the creations of a Level Six Civilization needed electricity. Electricity—the electromagnetic force—was one of the Four Fundamental Forces. No matter how advanced a physical device was, it could not function without it.

The positive and negative electrodes connected to the Warp Space Enhancement Device were linked to the Warp Engine's energy supply system. Beyond that, humanity only knew that a strange magnetic field would appear in the engine room while the device operated. As for the operating principles