"A vessel to carry all living beings... you want to pilot the entire planet!?"
In that instant, Tang Qi finally grasped her utterly insane plan. He finally understood why, with Doomsday approaching, he had not seen a single ship flying toward the sea of stars, and why so many people were pessimistic about her idea.
"H-have you calculated how much energy it would take to propel the entire Forgotten Continent?"
"We cannot propel the entire world."
The reason it was a plan rather than a fantasy was that Eve had already considered everything it would require. Now, she shared her thoughts.
"To reduce the weight, we must abandon the vast majority of this world's land, keeping barely enough for a million people to live on, even if it will be cramped.
"But when we leave the Junkyard, we will also detonate the surrounding land to provide the continent's initial acceleration, sending it hurtling toward the Phlogiston Sea in one burst."
Tang Qi watched her use gravity to wield streams of water like a paintbrush, presenting him with an illustration of land breaking away from the crust and soaring into the sky. He could not help asking again:
"Will there be enough energy afterward?"
"Long ago, before I died, I had already asked the Dwarves of the Northern Lands to begin extracting minerals and crystals from various regions. All of them will ultimately be converted into [Secret Cores] containing magical energy-
"You have seen them. Every Crystal Coin you fed was a kind of Secret Core containing pure Magic Energy. Put one into a Machinery Device, and it can supply the device with power.
"Of course, we now call it [Plague Source]." Eve pointed to the mass of crystals on the stone wall beside them.
Tang Qi recalled the Ancestor Dragon's