"We've received the signal. It's Father's order!"
A highly unusual, secret message arrived, made up of a string of meaningless characters.
It was the code Reilo had agreed on with Tianci and Lucy before he left.
The code meant that the Storm Continent's Council Army had officially made contact with Superbody Star's military forces. The two of them would restart the ancient Aurora Spacetime Fortress as soon as possible, begin their secret mission, expose the coordinates of Superbody Star and Star Curtain World, and contact a third world of Orora!
After confirming it again and again, Lucy said gravely, "I'm going to restart the power system. We only have one chance. Based on our past experience, once the Sky Veil lockdown is triggered, we'll have a hard time holding out for even an hourglass. Whether the mission succeeds will depend on you."
"Right. I know."
Tianci also knew that after the battle at the Pangula Highlands, his father and several Ancient Aurora humans had tried to restart the Sky Veil lockdown, only to be shot down again by the Superhumans.
After Lucy left, Tianci went to an inconspicuous room inside the ancient Flying Device. Most of the equipment inside was damaged. It had a classical beauty, and the carvings on its broken walls still faintly showed human statues and mysterious two-dimensional star maps marked with coordinates.
Cracks ran through the murals on the walls. Even the sturdy-looking communications devices were in ruins, seemingly damaged in the crash all those years ago. The subsequent internal strife and betrayal had only made matters worse.
Only after the Shura Path took over the site and joined forces with Reilo to gather the Academic World's brightest scholars for painstaking repairs had it been restored, and then only partially.
According to Reilo's tests, the devices