For the next three days, Rimuru's underground laboratory fell into complete and utter silence.
The virtual screens covering an entire wall no longer displayed a jumble of failed calculations. In their place were densely packed core formulas for Cybertronian levitation engines, spatial force-field schematics, and gravity-cancellation algorithms.
Tony cast aside all his resentment, competitiveness, and obsession with winning, becoming a research fanatic in the purest sense.
He neither ate nor slept, relying solely on a steady supply of nutrients administered by JARVIS to keep him going. His eyes were bloodshot, yet astonishingly bright.
His fingertips swept across the screens without pause, rewriting and checking calculations as he gradually broke down, translated, and adapted Cybertron's spatial technology, which was on a level far beyond Earth's, to fit Earth's physical laws, energy systems, and material limitations.
Cybertronian antigravity technology did not "fight gravity," as Earth's scientific community sought to do. Instead, it warped the local spatial force field at its source, directly canceling gravity's hold on the vehicle.
That difference in technological level was the root of every misconception in Earth's levitation research over the past several decades.
The more Tony studied, the more astonished he became.
The Transformers' technological foundations had long since transcended the constraints of conventional propulsion. Their navigation and levitation technologies were both fundamental black technologies derived from the laws of interstellar space, on an entirely different level from Earth's physics research.
Three days were enough for a genius to break through barriers to the utmost.
When the final set of force-field parameters adapted to Earth's gravitational environment passed verification, Tony let out a long breath. Exhaustion swept over him, and his tense back finally relaxed. He had fully grasped the core principles of the small levitation engine, stripped away the redundant structures designed for interstellar travel, and