Just then.
Suddenly!
A dense barrage of alarms rang out inside the bubble-shaped flying device.
As the energy surges pulsed repeatedly, dense ripples spread across the bubble's protective filter layer, and an alert sounded for a loss of survival fluid.
The Tidal Elves who had been chatting and laughing just moments earlier were instantly thrown into a panic.
They had never encountered anything this bizarre!
The flying device used curvature spacetime technology to avoid most material structures in the real world. Even when making a jump through only the shallowest layer of curvature spacetime, it should generally have been unaffected, unless it encountered a large material structure such as a mountain.
"Analyze the damage data and determine the cause!"
"How could this have happened?"
As data and structural projections appeared in the survival fluid, waves of disbelief rippled back and forth.
To their horror, the Tidal Elves discovered that during its curvature spacetime jump, their flying device had been pierced by six unknown fragments, each three to five centimeters in diameter. The impacts had structurally destroyed the craft.
The Tidal Civilization had devoted centuries to studying spacetime technology, yet had only managed to glimpse the basics of curvature spacetime technology. Though it had surpassed the Human Academic Circle in curvature spacetime travel, it had made virtually no progress in the spacetime defenses created by solidifying and embedding subspace technology fragments.
As things stood,
the flying device was like a ship that had struck a reef in shallow curvature spacetime. Its sinking seemed inevitable, and death was right before them.
"There's only one explanation!"
One of the Tidal Elves did everything it could to stay calm and analyze the situation they were facing.
The dwindling survival fluid made the Tidal Elves inside the bubble, which was traveling through curvature spacetime, feel