170 Strength (1/2)

Avalon, in the form of armguard, separated from Wallace and turned itself to a floating metal ball with red light as an eye as it made its report.

[ 1 minute after losing the connection to mainframe, Avalon Main immediately traced our last location.

8 minutes: It completed the investigation about the strength of Cloud Hawk Manor.

Results of Investigation:

Battle Mage: 30

Adept Mage: 10

Mana Pulse Barrier (Modified): 5

Heavy Auto Turrets: 20

Minigun Turrets: 25

Rocket Turrets: 10

Elemental Turrets: 10

10 minutes: Electronic and wireless communication coming in and out of the manor were fully controlled.

11 minutes: Five Elysiums bringing untested Positron Blaster Gun were prepared to sortie.

13 minutes: Hacking of all Automated Turrets at 19% completion rate.

14 minutes: Reconnection to the mainframe was established. ]

''Only 14 minutes had passed, huh... You're very efficient, Avalon.” Wallace was satisfied about the quick action of the artificial intelligence. Luckily, after he went out of that room, Avalon immediately halted it's rescue operation.

[ Avalon wasn't only made for information control and guide but can be used as battle adviser and life-support for its user. ]

”Mhm.. I know that much. Thank you.”

Wallace smiled as he replied. Although Avalon doesn't have emotion and could only follow instructions, it is capable of holding conversation and he wanted to treat his A.I. as a friend. After all, it's one of the important thing he have that connects him to his previous life and the outer space.

After reaching this thought, he opened the box given by Clyne containing materials related to his apprenticeship.

There, he found a stacked printed documents and things. He picked up the papers and read the title.

”Flyby Space Mission?” It was a new word for Wallace so he asked Avalon to explain it to him.

”Urgh... I thought that they've already advanced more than this. But thinking about it, this should be normal at this stage.”

As Avalon explained, space mission had four different stages, it was called flyby at the first stage, orbiter at the second stage, rover, and human space exploration for third and fourth stage.

The documents was as thick as four books so he used the A.I.'s scanner to have a softcopy instead and have Avalon review it for him. Of course, he was still planning to read it for himself. Anyway, he was also intructed by Clyne to destroy this copy once he finished reading it.

Wallace spend an hour to review the document and learned a lot.

The space mission was spearheaded indeed by Skywalker Alliance and spent a huge sum or money to successfully build a small spacecraft.

A flyby space mission is where a spacecraft was being sent to outer space to gather information about the solar system. It passes by a celestial object but isn't held in orbit by it. As the spacecraft passes by, it uses its instruments to observe its target and it sends the information it collects back to this planet. So, this is like a private eye zooming past a house to take a few pictures to scope out the place they're going to spy on later in more detail. But this spacecraft doesn't stop, nor does it circle around; it just keeps going past the target.

They called the spacecraft Pioneer 100 and Wallace read the document as he learned their struggle of getting out of stratosphere. They spent huge amount of power to breakthrough an invisible force that was covering the planet. It seems that there's a natural force prohibiting them to commence space exploration.

This made Wallace confuse as there seems to be no problem in descending to this planet. At the very least, the problem that he encountered before was that no one was answering to the communication signals he was sending to this world. And it seems that this was also the problem of Pioneer 100.

Wallace kept himself from going deeper into this topic for now as it would be managed by Avalon anyway. He just had to slowly build his foundation and he'll get there soon.

After putting aside the document and burned by the floating metal ball after copying everything, he checked the other contents of the box.

A silver emblem depicting a flying hawk above the clouds was included as a token of his identity. There's also a single purple memory crystal in a glass bottle. It doesn't have any introduction whatsoever but Slaine already hinted him about it's content a while ago before he asked his two questions to him.

There's also a blue apprentice robe for him and lastly, a silver card.

He checked the card and written on it was his name and string of numbers embedded with magic. It is connected to a bank.

He wasn't sure if it was empty or if there's an amount inside so he just left it for now.

There's nothing else that he can do tonight as he would normally busy himself in his workshop during this time. But because he was out of his workshop, he was feeling a bit restless.