Early the next morning.
Reilo arrived at Edward's laboratory.
"Tell me, yesterday, when Bailan was here, you kept hesitating and stopping just short of saying something. I don't believe you were keeping quiet about the fission-class Radiation Weapon that won't be ready for another two or three hundred years."
Reilo knew Edward was cautious, especially after spending so long at the Grand Natural Sciences Academy. Whether it was his attitude toward experiments or his work, he left no room for the slightest mistake. Reilo had already guessed that Edward probably had something important to report.
Sure enough.
When Edward saw that Reilo was alone, a look of delight immediately crossed his face.
Without a word, he led Reilo straight to another room.
The guard statue at the entrance was a lifelike white rhino holding a giant fork. Layers of magical restrictions glimmered across its skin.
Its eyes glowed faintly, then dimmed as it verified their identities.
The laboratory doors slowly opened.
Seeing Edward make straight for this secret room, Reilo seemed to realize something too. A look of delight appeared in his eyes.
"Did the third-generation Energy Source design succeed?"
The first-generation Energy Source had been designed by Ankalev.
Its basic principle was simple: extract a stable energy supply from a large quantity of energy crystals.
Although the first-generation Energy Source design was primitive, it marked a major step for scholars toward civilization. It also formed the foundation for the High Tower research institutes' capabilities, the power systems of fortress barrier wards, and the Sky Fortress.
Without the first-generation power source, scholars would still have been little more than a handful of nobles indulging in a costly hobby to show off to one another, building on the foundations of the agricultural temple civilization. It would have been difficult for scholarship