Unable to turn invisible, disguise themselves, or hide. Even abilities or spatial teleportation were useless against security this strict, like a "birdcage." Fortunately, they had not gone so insanely far as to extend it indoors as well.
Concealing their figures, they left the President's Office and passed one surveillance camera after another in the corridors.
Fang Ran and Osphia leaped from the upper floors of the building into the night.
The headquarters was a vast campus formed by clusters of facilities, and anything related to Covenant participants naturally would not be kept in the central office building.
Their figures darted through the darkness of the campus, until they finally arrived at Star Dynamics' Energy Research Center.
They quietly slipped past the guard on duty, crossed the lobby, and entered a large laboratory space. After seeing research projects focused on optimizing and innovating equipment needed for a certain stage of oil refining,
Fang Ran and Osphia finally stopped before a door.
"According to him, this is the entrance to the underground area."
In the dimly lit darkness, she studied the unusually heavily fortified alloy door before her. The white wings behind her spread open again, and as the strongest A-rank Arcane Tech device glowed faintly blue, its immense computing power began to operate.
Osphia then looked at Fang Ran, recalling how he had remotely taken control of that Executive Officer's vehicle earlier.
"You have an AI core in your technological equipment too, right? It will be faster if we crack it together."
But upon hearing her, Fang Ran simply raised a hand.
"No, there is no need to make it so troublesome."
Then he activated Draw Card. Ignoring a whole series of complex checks—passwords, biometrics, and more—a black circular surface opened directly on the door.
Seeing the surprise in Osphia's azure