After Duke captured a portion of Infiltrator 0-8, he tried to study the little thing in his grasp. But the moment his spiritual form stepped out of the Demonic Web, the captured portion of Infiltrator 0-8 turned into a small, silvery-white metal sphere.
No matter how Duke analyzed the metal sphere, the answer was always the same: it was nothing but ordinary metal.
Unwilling to give up, Duke even brought his own immense power to bear, analyzing it again at the level of its constituent rules. But the answer remained the same: ordinary metal.
Looking thoroughly disgruntled, Duke slapped the metal sphere into a two-dimensional plane, then annihilated that plane completely.
This was also why Conductor and the other Wisdoms were not at all worried about the abducted portion of Infiltrator 0-8. Every series within the Legion had this mechanism.
The moment an attempt to crack Legion technology was detected, the unit's core would go berserk, turning the unit into utter "scrap."
As a series designed to penetrate deep behind enemy lines, the Infiltrators naturally received particular protection from this mechanism.
And behind every precaution the Legion took lay a bloody lesson from the previous era.
Meanwhile, in a single universe near the B3397 Universe, an elderly man with two horns studied a document sent from "far away," a faintly contemplative look on his face.
The Gonzales Co-Link was located in a single universe near the edge of Balchik's sphere of influence. This universe lay at the boundary between Balchik and the Shatra Civilization.
It was also one of the few civilizations in the neutral zone.
But the feeling of being caught between two behemoths... well, it was what it was.
Now, the Gonzales Co-Link had received a letter of hints from the Shatra Civilization. Though its wording was