"What exactly was this weakened state of the Observer Civilization? Had the Superhumans already become capable of affecting a low-dimensional civilization in a world with virtually no thickness?"
Reilo had racked his brains without finding an answer. At first, he hadn't dared to act rashly and had remained fully on guard.
The Eerie Cat Eye still glowed with an uncanny light. Through the slit in the opened canopy, the Superhumans remained in view.
That slit in the canopy was the Curvature Spacetime jump channel.
It was only the size of a pinprick, and ordinary people couldn't detect it at all. But Reilo knew all too well that the advanced technology behind it was something humanity in the Academic World could only dream of.
First, there was the distance. The channel spanned the vast expanse of spacetime between Superbody Star and Star Curtain World. Such an astonishing distance for a single spacetime jump was simply inconceivable. Given the spacetime technology available to humanity in the Academic World, the energy required would be impossible to sustain even with a thousand Energy Sources supplying it simultaneously.
From this, Reilo could infer that the power output needed for the Superhuman civilization to open a Curvature Spacetime jump channel had reached an astonishing level—perhaps hundreds or even thousands of times greater than the theoretical optimum currently achievable in the Academic World's laboratories.
Next was its accuracy. To cross such an immense distance and lock onto a target without error was, in the eyes of the Academic World, practically a miracle of precision for a Curvature Spacetime channel.
After all, if the channel's angle were off by even 0.001 degrees at the instant it opened, the resulting Curvature Spacetime jump coordinates would be nowhere near the destination.
Finally, there was the depth of the Curvature Spacetime