The moment Lox entered this so-called vault, he felt a bone-deep chill.
One stasis field after another stood in neat rows throughout the enormous vault. The surfaces of some objects had even been deliberately blurred, making it impossible to tell at a glance what had been sealed within.
"Your secret repository seems to have some abnormality in its spatial curvature. And isn't the space inside here a little too large?"
Lox's senses were sharp. The space they occupied was certainly not normal space-time.
The Lion showed a look of surprise, then confirmed it.
"That's right. Your senses are keener than I expected. Although the vault is inside the Invincible Reason, it is actually enveloped in a special spatial bubble. The distortion of space allows such a massive vault to exist within a warship whose compartments do not have much room to spare."
Spatial technology.
Lox had originally assumed it was the work of psychic power, but he had not expected it to be pure technology.
Within the Dark Angels' vault was a special engine from the Dark Age of Technology. Once activated, it generated a spatial bubble, warping conventional notions of size.
"If I'm not mistaken, even if the Invincible Reason sank in battle, this vault wrapped in a spatial bubble could teleport away at the final moment."
The Lion neither confirmed nor denied it, but his attitude had already acknowledged the point.
He lit up the pitch-black chamber, and Imperial writing that Lox could understand appeared on the labels outside the stasis fields.
"A green label means the contained object is safe and controllable. We have used these relics many times to eliminate troublesome enemies."
Lox heard a strong scent of bloodshed in the Lion's words. If even the Dark Angels considered an enemy troublesome, one could imagine how