Three months later.
At last, using the mysterious coordinates of the ultra-pure watercraft deciphered with the Flowing Sand Civilization's advanced technology, Bailan arrived near this distant, unfamiliar stretch of sea she had never set foot in before.
Bailan carefully emerged from the watercraft, where she had been curled up inside.
She looked around, sensing for even the slightest possible anomaly in the air.
She had to be careful.
Although she was still quite far from the coordinates, this was, after all, an advanced civilization approaching—or perhaps already within—the fourth-level domain. The only purpose of her mission under the "Era Stagnation" plan was to determine the other side's habitat with certainty, reducing the search time for the Academic World's main disaster fleet and lowering the chance of this civilization experiencing a technological explosion in its Golden Age.
In the distance.
An uneasy stir rippled through the air. The dense static charge of thunder was impossible to hide from Bailan's exceptionally keen senses.
At first glance, this static seemed no different from the thunder that might strike the sea at any moment. Yet under the patient, meticulous perception of an advanced scholar, it proved otherwise.
"So there really is something unusual here. It seems these coordinates weren't fabricated out of thin air. Even if this isn't the Tidal Civilization's habitat, it must be some important location."
Bailan murmured softly, her voice tinged with delight.
She was now about one Starveil Land unit from the precise coordinates. If she could sense something unusual from this far away, there was no doubt that the place had some unique geological feature.
In fact.
Every so often, differing voices arose within the Academic World during the wasteland era, calling for an upgrade to the two-dimensional coordinate system.
The reason was simple.
The origin of the two-dimensional