Star Ring Fragments Return to Their Places

I didn't know whether this should be called a coincidence. We had found over a hundred Star Ring Fragments, yet could only use them as research material for the Abyss. But a fragment the God Race had stumbled upon happened to be the largest and most structurally intact one, and it had even retained basic operational capability. The God Race really was a group of outrageously overpowered aura-generating machines. Even their ability to discover hidden rewards while clearing maps was EX-level.

After confirming that the Star Ring Fragment's Abyss Reaction had completely ceased, I agreed to let Viska investigate its interior first. She still remembered this weapon ring she had designed herself, knowing every inch of its structure. After several hours of preliminary inspection, Viska confirmed that the facilities in this section of the Star Ring Fragment were basically intact. Some of its functions had even been preserved.

That was highly abnormal.

The Star Ring Fragment had been destroyed by a massive explosion from the inside out. We guessed that the Fallen Apostles had used some sort of resonance device to make the Energy Pipelines within the Star Ring go out of control, thereby detonating the whole thing. This kind of destruction should have been clean and thorough. In a self-destruction caused by a psionic energy rampage, there was absolutely no way any equipment could remain undamaged. Even if it looked intact on the outside, its insides should have been a complete mess. Yet this fragment had not only retained basic combat capability, it had abruptly activated its weapons when it encountered the God Race Vanguard Team and battered those God Race warriors into a sorry state. It had also retained a certain amount of system memory, successfully recognizing Viska's control commands and responding to her operation.

"There are traces