"Bzz!"
An hour later, with Bruno at the wheel, a black sedan left the Imperial Supreme Research Institute and headed for the Imperial Grand Hotel.
At that moment, John sat in the back seat, fiddling with a metal card, an irrepressible smile on his face.
Just as he had expected, after he gave Manny information about the Floating City Ruins, Manny honored their previous terms by telling him where the Astral Orbital Barrier Device was being researched. He also gave him a Level Three researcher access card for the laboratory, allowing him to visit and retrieve experimental data and intelligence up to Level Three.
What John had not expected was that, on top of that, Manny had promised in a personal capacity to act for him unconditionally once whenever John needed it.
Naturally, the condition for such assistance was that it had nothing to do with factional disputes.
It was a pity that he could not make the Institute openly support the Reformist Faction, but since this personal assistance was an unexpected bonus, John did not dwell on it.
After all, what I need to deal with most urgently isn't strengthening the Reformist Faction, but solving my own problems first.
At that thought, the smile on John's face gradually faded, and his hand stopped playing with the access card.
His dark eyes scrutinized the card in his hand, a trace of gravity flashing through them.
According to the information Manny had provided, he now knew the exact location where the Astral Orbital Barrier Device had been installed.
This large research facility was located in the central region of the Silent Mountains, fifty kilometers northwest of Ereno.
More precisely, it was a massive experimental base ten kilometers beneath the abandoned Second Royal Observatory.
There was only one encrypted rune elevator leading