Before Her Face Had Aged, Her Body Had Already Failed

Squid Ball had been thinking about her Astronomical Telescope. After touring the training room, she dashed back to the crew quarters.

When the system generated the facility, it expanded a small section of the outer wall of her crew quarters. The original metal wall had become a semicircular transparent dome that protruded outward. Lying inside, she could see the entire night sky when she looked up.

A brass Astronomical Telescope stood in the center of the room. Its barrel was over two meters long, connected below to intricate gears and mana calibration devices. That Primary Mana Stone was embedded in the center of its base, giving off a soft blue glow.

There was also a small star chart table beside it.

Squid Ball sat before the Telescope and turned the adjustment wheel according to the instructions that came with the facility. The barrel silently rotated, aiming at the starry sky overhead.

The next second, the stars that had only been tiny points of light before her eyes were magnified countless times.

"Wow..."

Squid Ball's eyes widened, her face nearly pressed against the eyepiece.

In the past, when she observed the night sky with the naked eye, she could only distinguish rough directions and the brightness of stars. But through the Telescope, she discovered vast, faint clusters of stars scattered around those seemingly solitary points of light—fragmented starlight layered upon layer, stretching all the way to the edge of her vision.

Whenever she turned the barrel, the star chart table beside her automatically recorded the direction of observation, leaving glowing dots on the map.

"This is way too convenient..."

Squid Ball could barely bring herself to pull her eyes away from the Telescope.

She slowly moved the lens along a familiar star path, a region of the sky she had often