Stability (Mi)

(Miluno)

I don't know how much time passed.

"Has the meeting at the top finished?" I asked.

Mono pointed to his eyes and replied:

"Not yet, my Demon Eye hasn't seen those councilors come out."

She hid a Demon Eye at the elevator entrance on the fourth floor, which was the only way to leave the venue. If Sun Ji left, she would notice.

I glanced at the time.

"It's been almost an hour, hasn't it? Do they really have that much to discuss?"

"Who knows? Maybe we should take these four Annihilation Bomb back with us! There are plenty of No-Man's Land on Earth to store these bombs, as long as we don't leave them for the enemy!"

I rolled my eyes at her and said irritably:

"Then do you dare touch that bomb?"

Mono answered with great enthusiasm:

"I wouldn't dare!"

She didn't dare, I...

I wouldn't dare either.

These four bombs are like four grumpy ancestors.

Aside from the Crystal that make up the cabinet, any object that gets close to the Annihilation Bomb will cause ripples on its smooth spherical surface. The closer it gets, the more violent the ripples become, almost as if it's about to explode. But if you actually touch it...

Perhaps it's about sparks of love ignited by the interaction of matter and antimatter?

Have no idea.

This is just speculation, and I dare not verify it, let alone run away with these four ancestors.

But being in the same room with such a thing is really unsettling.

I tried to change the subject.

Betelgeuse, have you found the 'answer' yet?

Although she was still physically working on the computer, she turned her head and pointed her glasses at us.

Only the head turned around... that's a little scary.

Eyepiece:

[There is no information about "Natives" or "Great Will" within the quantum network where this Superbrain resides.]

[Want the answer]

[We need an even older Superbrain]

Couldn't she just say something?

"That's easy to say, but where am I supposed to find something like that for you?"

If we continue exploring, we might find what she's looking for.

The sixth underground level is clearly not yet the bottom of the World Center; it's probably only halfway down. However, there's no passage leading to the seventh underground level on the map of the sixth level. The only way to continue exploring downwards is to return to the fourth underground level and jump down through the central Deep Well.

The little thing then said:

"Is the reason there's no way down is because the 'Supreme Council' was only renovated up to the sixth basement level?"

Renovation.

The structure of the real World Center differs from that in the dream; the Supreme Council likely modified this underground pyramid layer by layer from top to bottom.

But why did this renovation only extend to the sixth basement level?

Could we uncover more relics similar to Annihilation Bomb further down the mountain?

"Since they didn't even leave a passage, it's clear they don't plan to continue development. Perhaps they discovered something that stopped them at the sixth underground level... like an ancient dark giant that would destroy the world if released!!"

Hey, why is it a giant?

"After all, this is a pyramid!"

Since they couldn't find any results on Betelgeuse, they simply put away the data cable and sat down next to us.

"Hmm..."

Mono asked, sounding puzzled.

"What? The meeting's over?"

"Some councilors came out, but... but they were all Monster councilors, and we didn't see Sun Ji either..."

Connecting this clue with the preceding and following events, my almost supernatural intuition immediately sounded an alarm.

Oh no!

I patted Mono's head.

"Get up, we're leaving!"

"Huh? Sun Ji brought the Modified Witch down here?!"

There are only two paths outside the conference hall: either go up to the fourth basement level, or...

The small door on the main gate opened silently.

Before anyone was even seen, a compressed air canister was thrown in.

I recognize this stuff; it's Magic Suppressant.

Only after the colorless yet shimmering gas filled the entire storage room did someone walk in through the small door.

A group of witches entered, but Sun Ji himself was nowhere to be seen.

That's normal; she's just a magical girl, and the effects of the Magic Suppressant would be noticeable.

"Found it! But the Annihilation Bomb is intact, and we didn't see any enemies."

The witch with insect compound eyes confirmed the situation of the Annihilation Bomb, saying:

"Hmph, I knew the chief advisor's worries were unnecessary. Given the physical properties of this thing, they couldn't steal it even if they wanted to."

The compound-eyed witch opened the Crystal cabinet, attempting to directly touch the Annihilation Bomb...

"Holy crap?"

The little thing startled me, but the bomb dissipated in a jolt.

How can you steal something you can't even touch?

"Don't play with such dangerous things."

Another witch with a single horn entered, guarding the area around the Crystal case.

This person seems to have a rather serious personality.

She said, "The advisors said they planned to detonate it directly."

The compound-eyed witch waved her hand dismissively, her laughter undisguised. "Danger? It's one thing that that country bumpkin advisor doesn't understand, but what about you? Without the corresponding activation procedure, you could break this thing countless times and it still wouldn't explode. It's not like it's gunpowder from a primitive civilization."

"Don't underestimate us; Earthlings have already absorbed a lot of technology from us."

"It's all just superficial."

The compound-eyed witch closed the Nine-grid Crystal Cabinet, and the scattered Annihilation Bomb began to recombine.

The one-horned witch picked up the empty Magic Suppressant canister and glanced one last time at the storage room.

"That's it for today, everyone go home."

The storage room door was closed again.

I listened intently for a long time, hiding by the door, before the little thing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"That scared me to death! Luckily you know how to dig!"

"This was just a solution I came up with in a moment of desperation."

And don't portray me like a rat.

I sent Mono and Betelgeuse to a lower level of space, the bottom of the pyramid I had seen in my dream.

It was quite an unexpected discovery that a place I had dreamt of could also open a teleportation portal.

"Even though it's a dream, it's still something that really exists."

Mono also boasted:

"Compared to this, how about my technique of using Dark Energy to maintain magic!"

"That's good, we won't need to carry the Magic Supply System anymore."

"Eh?! Then, you should bring that one! Otherwise, I'll be too tired!"

It really startled me when the Magic Suppressant canister was thrown in.

Having never personally experienced the effects of the Magic Suppressant, Ceruno's magic was still unable to block this special gas that solidified magic.

Just as the invisibility was about to fail, the little thing had darkness take over the magic supply, maintaining the invisibility spell before the witches could enter.

Otherwise, we'll have to abandon this mission.

Although it was a false alarm, we gained some useful information.

Having witnessed the demonstration by the compound-eyed witch, my awe of the Annihilation Bomb vanished completely.

A bomb that would disintegrate if touched by anything could not be brought back to Earth.

"And it can't be detonated; it's very stable unless activated by a specific procedure... In other words, your bomb disposal plan is ruined!"

Really.

I don't even know what the activation program looks like. Is it a program? Or some kind of remote control?

Mono was visibly pleased that he didn't have to destroy the World Center.

But for me, it was a wasted trip.

"Well, it wasn't a wasted trip! Come down and take a look, there's a great discovery on Betelgeuse!"

A major underground discovery?

Would that be more valuable than Annihilation Bomb?