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Chapter 138

A Route Through Myth!

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Link's global intelligence center.

Not a single human worked there.

Cold metal walls, shimmering waterfalls of data, and a holographic globe suspended in the air made up the entire place.

Dozens of independent AIs worked like loyal bees, processing the vast quantities of information generated every second in every corner of the world at speeds beyond human comprehension.

And Link was the sole ruler of this kingdom of information.

He sat quietly on his throne, eyes half-closed, his consciousness merged with the vast server cluster.

Find Themyscira.

For any ordinary person—even a master detective like Batman—the task was an impossible paradox.

You could not find a place that did not "exist" on any map, in reality, or on the physical plane.

But from the beginning, Link's thinking had moved beyond the physical.

He was not looking for an island.

He was looking for the myth itself.

"Phase one directive: initiate the Mythological Tracing protocol."

Link's thoughts became commands, stirring towering waves through the ocean of data.

"Database: the history of human civilization, from 3000 BCE to the present."

"Keywords: Themyscira, the Land of Women, the Amazons, the Isle of Immortality, the Pure Land of Bliss, Avalon, and every similar mythological concept."

[Directive confirmed. Beginning fuzzy semantic search and cross-indexing...]

A cold electronic voice sounded in Link's mind.

The next second, the immense body of literature humanity had accumulated over thousands of years—from Homer's epics to the logs of the Age of Discovery, from the immortal mountains of Penglai in ancient Eastern texts to the mist-shrouded isle of Celtic legend—was converted into pure streams of data.

Under the super-AI's analysis, these seemingly unrelated myths began to reveal striking similarities across civilizations and regions.

``` [Report: Seventy-three percent of the myths place the target in "the far west."]

[Report: Eighty-nine

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