At 1.7 meters tall, Bailan wasn't short among human women, especially after the wasteland apocalypse, when many people had suffered famine and malnutrition.
That meant...
Outsiders would naturally find it hard to imagine how cramped it must have been for a human woman to spend years curled up inside a Flying Device barely two meters in diameter.
At least, under normal circumstances, humans would never design a Flying Device with such a tiny interior.
It was easy to see, then, why the Flowing Sand Civilization had concluded that this intruder was a relatively small life-form.
Bailan piloted the ultra-pure-water Flying Device back into Curvature Space and finally breathed a little easier. As far as the technology of human scholar civilization went, there were very few ways to threaten a Flying Device inside Curvature Space; it had only passive defenses.
She reasoned that this unknown civilization from another dimension should have little means of threatening her, either.
But Bailan soon realized she was wrong.
"Warning! Anti-gravity field lock detected. Preliminary calculation: approximately 90,000 tons."
"Warning! Anti-gravity field lock detected. Preliminary calculation: approximately 100,000 tons."
"Warning! Anti-gravity field lock detected. Preliminary calculation: approximately 110,000 tons."
"Warning..."
Bailan stared at the rapidly changing numbers flashing across the holographic screen, her eyes wide as a chill ran through her.
The strength of the Anti-gravity field outside had already reached 150,000 tons—a figure sufficient to support the Academy Alliance's highest-grade sky fortress.
More terrifying still, the Flowing Sand Civilization had compressed an Anti-gravity field of such strength into a domain, giving it properties similar to a magnetic field. After locking onto her, it had imposed the domain on her Flying Device. The difficulty of this was like the difference between ordinary flames and the high-energy flames of a furnace.
It was the equivalent of placing