For pure scholars like them, what could possibly be more exciting than research? A concert had nothing on it.
They had just obtained the "Sphere," an exceedingly rare and precious upgrade material with assimilative properties. Their souls of research were already blazing, so of course they had to race to the lab, dissect and study it properly, find out exactly how high its assimilation limit was, and see how much experience it could grant biological and mechanical lifeforms when fed to them as upgrade material.
Of course, most importantly, Honorable Sage wasn't here.
By observing Horii's experimental process, in which every step followed the correct path and direction, Herta realized what had been wrong with her in the past. For insignificant experiments, success had always come easily. Yet whenever it involved the crucial stages of major experiments capable of changing the universe, inexplicable errors would always arise, causing progress to stall after reaching a certain point.
Ordinary people would naturally assume their own talent was lacking, but who was Herta?
She was a genius!
How could a genius possibly keep making mistakes?
Thus, after discussing the matter with Ruan Mei, Verity, and the others, she quickly discovered the root of the problem: something was interfering with them!
Combined with the information from before, a little deduction revealed the culprit behind it all.
—Honorable Sage!
Just as Lagurghos had, shortly after creating the Iron Tomb, immediately used the Stellar Core, the Fourteen-Line Algebraic Formula, and Memory Substance to encrypt the environment and seal away the Iron Tomb's experimental "ripples," Honorable Sage had used universal constants, anchored moments, and circles of knowledge to seal off the universe. It had created a prison of deepest darkness, turning every genius into a prisoner of [Erudition].
The moment someone attempted to touch the knowledge singularity