Half a month later.
Manros.
The replica of Caul walked down the only passage leading beneath the heavily fortified stronghold.
Behind him, on the left, were senior members and technical experts from the Manros Artisan Guild.
On the right were high-ranking officials from the "Holy Land" Forge World.
When the fleet brought back the Navigation Tower, every major figure involved in technology came to the depths of Manros to inspect the pinnacle of Human Species warp-navigation technology.
The Navigation Tower hung high above the underground cavern.
Everyone who saw it felt a sense of visual "wrongness" at the sight of its absolutely perfect cube.
The technicians from the Artisan Guild and the Holy Land Forge World immediately approached with all kinds of equipment to survey it. Riding anti-gravity platforms, they circled the hundred-meter tower like tiny ants.
They quickly gathered the most superficial data about the Navigation Tower.
"Lord of Valor."
"Lord of the Alliance."
When Lu Jin suddenly entered the underground stronghold and came before the technicians, they greeted him by different titles.
Lu Jin remained silent. He returned the salute of everyone who greeted him, then stood beside Caul, gazing at the Navigation Tower without a word.
The others continued with their work.
As data on the Navigation Tower's outer shell was transmitted to their neural implants or similar devices, exclamations of amazement and admiration rang out one after another.
"Who knows what it's made of—"
"Each side is exactly one hundred meters long."
"Not a fraction more or less, even at the quark scale—"
"What level of craftsmanship is this? For a massive structure a hundred meters tall, such a perfect length is unnecessary—this is a show of technical prowess."
A member of the Artisan Guild said this to the others.
Lu Jin wasn't a researcher, but