Mai Shiranui's test concluded successfully. Her newly acquired Hellfire power had stabilized at the Sub-Skyfather Level, displaying tremendous growth potential and tactical value.
Loren's attention then shifted to the next project he had been anticipating.
Beneath the manor, within another laboratory larger and more heavily guarded than the previous one.
This place was not filled with flashing screens and precision instruments like a typical laboratory. Instead, it resembled a temple combining ultra-futuristic technology with the concept of sacred forging.
At the center of the enormous space stood a slowly rotating, complex geometric platform composed of pure energy.
Countless fine conduits, flowing with dim blue or golden-white strands of light, connected to it from every direction.
They continuously fed immeasurable amounts of data and vast quantities of purified, encoded energy into the platform's core.
The air hummed with the movement of high-frequency energy, accompanied by a peculiar, sacred resonance as though metal and light were echoing together.
Loren stood before the main control console. There was no traditional control panel here, only a floating light screen constantly shifting through intricate three-dimensional runes and energy-flow diagrams.
His gaze was focused. His fingers occasionally tapped and swiped across the screen, every movement precise and steady as he guided the operation of the vast system.
On the observation platform behind him, the two Angeloids, Ikaros and Nymph, stood quietly.
Both of their gazes were fixed upon the central energy platform, though their expressions differed.
Ikaros remained expressionless, but data streams cascaded through her pale pink eyes like waterfalls.
She was simultaneously recording and analyzing the enormous volume of data from the entire manufacturing process, providing her master with the necessary auxiliary calculations.
Nymph's small face was filled with nervousness and anticipation, her hands unconsciously clasped before her chest.
She knew what her master was