Chapter 241 (2/2)

“The Isle of Rainbow… how much is left?” Hilda asked about the situation in other places.

The Isle of Rainbow was a floating island, the last space test site with comprehensive facilities and a high-capacity energy system, where the space-time accelerator was tested. All this while, the elves had only one planet—a lonely planet. There was no other places for them to set foot on and many large-scale tests could not be conducted. It was not until the planet was broken up and formed a space island chain that they could start conducting some dangerous tests, which could not have been carried out safely on the mother planet. During the few thousand years of technological trial and error, they had lost one test site after another, and the aftermath of most incidents was enough to pollute the entire planet. The lost of a floating island was the best case scenario. But even then, there were only a limited number of floating islands available. Thousand of years had passed and the numbers were dwindling.

The Isle of Rainbow was their last hope.

“The Isle of Rainbow is gone.” Vimm was silent for a few seconds before saying in a deep voice, “Mother, I bet you have seen the far end of the island chain while you were in space; the area with new debris—that is the Isle of Rainbow. After the explosion, part of the fragments were thrown towards the sun while some towards deep space. We only managed to recover two-fifths of the materials. These materials were temporarily placed together with the debris of the island chain. Alhough the test site is gone, the resources mined from the wreck will allow everyone years of good life.”

“I saw fragments. I just did not expect…” Hilda frowned. “What about the Isle of Stars?”

The Isle of Stars was another space floating island, an important industrial centre and energy furnace, which stored energy received from the coronal station. During the test of the space-time accelerator, the Isle of Rainbow was moved to the far end of the island chain to avoid it from becoming a hazard to the residential zone. However, the Isle of Stars was moved along to supply energy to the test site. Its close proximity to the test site had Hilda worried about its fate.

While in space, she did not carefully observe the situation across the island chain, so she was unsure if she had seen the Isle of Stars.

“The Isle of Stars survived with some damage. Some of the shrapnel punctured the air-defence fire network, and damaged part of the gravity generator and propulsion unit. Some almost hit the energy hub—missing it by a small margin. The situation is under control. The technical elder committee is trying to restore its functions while the magic technicians managed to recover some equipment from the death zone—the equipment are probably still working. That is better than nothing.”

“Very well. At least, things are better than expected.” Hilda breathed a sigh of relief. “When we land, have Cardillon meet me. We and our otherworldly friends have lots of things to discuss.”

“Elder Cardillon…” Vimm suddenly became evasive of Hilda’s stare. “Elder Cardillon has gone to the World of Prayers.”

“What?” Hilda suddenly raised her voice. “Who allowed that?”

“He went of his own accord. Some problems arose in the World of Prayers. The 200-year-old Lotto Group are becoming active again… and part of the assembly—”

“So the current social order is merely superficial?” Hilda’s face turned dead straight. “When we land, immediately call for an elder assembly. I am going to restore the order!”