[ Empire's Fleet ETA: 31 days ]

Ring! Ring!

Zhilina was woken up by the alarm…

"Urgh… Is it time already?"

She's the young Chief Engineer that was stationed within the Moon Base… A couple of days ago, she fully inspected the Excellence as it was scheduled to be sent back to Earth…

That spaceship would only be manned by 10 Mana Technicians and the six pilots from the Knights Division that Hilda leads…

That particular spacecraft has tons of mounted Mana Artifacts and Advanced Weapons Technology for its defense…

Although Avalon's automaton can handle the weapon technology, she still has to check all the Mana Artifacts since aside from Wallace, she's probably the only Magician here that is comparable to an Arcane Artificer…

Knock! Knock!

"Chief! Are you ready?"

Zhilina heard her subordinate from the other side of the door.

"Huh? I just opened my eyes! Give me some time!" Zhiline yelled as she hasn't even left her bed yet…

"I'll wait here! Aren't you excited chief?! We're now allowed to study the Omen IV!"

"Tsk… Wallace just wanted us to be backup technicians if that spaceship gets damaged… They sent a few Arians on Earth, so they must be lacking some people there."

Zhilina answered… It's not that she hated it but she felt that they don't have enough time for this… They're only allowed to study the super huge Omen for 48 hours!

They have a lot of things they needed to know and 48 hours would barely allow them to learn the internal structure of the spaceship…

In truth, they already looked into one of their simplest Laser Guns and they barely learned anything from it…

They are not using mana and are using a weird type of energy so they were always struggling in learning their technology…

This is the reason why she no longer felt excited about visiting that alien's spacecraft…

At most, she might just consider this as her rest day and enjoy viewing the Omen and befriend the Arians living there.

Zhilina just washed her face before she left her room.

"Chief… I heard that this time, Sir Wallace wanted us to learn how to operate the Omen…"

Her female subordinate whispered…

"Are you serious? I thought that we just need to study the internal structure?"

"Well, I'm not sure… I think Sir Wallace wanted to replicate the Spaceship… However, Avalon has limitations when it comes to constructing things that involve different types of energy especially Mana…"

"Sigh~ More work to be done, huh… I'd really like to study Providence instead of Omen… What a shame…"

"Oh… The one with Aether Force and Mana as a source of energy?"

"That's right…"

Zhilina replied as she felt that the Providence has similarities in the game Alien Invasion than the Omen or Excellence…

Anyway, it hasn't been that long since she came here and she'll definitely have a lot of opportunities.

***

"Avalon... Can you make sure that we're monitoring them correctly? I'm worried that we are being given false information. It would be a disaster if that happens…"

Ace worriedly ask after seeing the ETA of the Empire's Fleet. Thirty-one days would easily pass...

Nevertheless, he's not aware of how clever the Meredith Empire was so he wanted to double-check or even triple-check just to make him feel reassured.

[ The Mana-Based Observers is undetectable by other mainframes that are not aware of Mana Fluctuation. It should be similar to the Empire... Even if they managed to spot the observers we've sent, they won't be able to do something with it. They should be recuperating themselves… ]

"Recuperating? The Empire's Fleet?"

[ Correct. They forcefully made their own wormhole and it must've damaged their systems a bit. They even sent Mech Frames with a special device to defend against the backlash coming from the cloud of Mana that they've gone into. ]

"Now that you said it. They probably don't want to engage in combat yet…"

[ That's correct. So we must use this time to ensure that our traps are perfectly arranged. In case you have other ideas, tell it immediately so we can adjust. ]

"Yes, yes… I know… I will do that…"

Ace answered before he ended his conversation with the A.I.

He then went to the Ice Cream House to clear his mind…

***

Marco Schmidt from the Lucent Force and the Mage Doctor, Charles Mavis saw the descent of the Excellence a while ago…

The spaceship landed at Mount Ravencroft without any issues.

Their mission for today was simple, to monitor the vehicle containing the foreign species.

Marco wanted to ensure everyone's safety while Charles wanted to meet the foreign species and perhaps learn about their lifestyle. The food they eat, their language, their internal body structure, and others…

Unfortunately, it has to wait until they were given to Yumi who has prepared a special facility for the Aliens…

"This--- Those two, Yumi and Wallace, they planned this very well…"

"Just how did he plan all of this. It's so amazing…"

The two just arrived in a building that Avalon has prepared for the Arians.

Whoom~ Whoom~

Suddenly six Mech Knights appeared above the building!

They are the members of Providence's First Knight Division led by Hilda's Radiant Knight.

"Where did they come from?" Charles asked in surprise…

He didn't notice the six large customized Steel Knights until now!

"It's stealth-capable… and it can even fly. This…" Marco was incredibly surprised since the Iron Knights that he thought as the peak of humanoid machines was dwarfed by this amazing machine made by Traceless Hands!

Especially its flight capability! How can that heavy thing float and not make any sound at all!

This level of Knight wasn't even within the Alien Invasion game that Wallace has created.

"Haa~ That man is truly full of surprises… Let's go… Yumi must be waiting for us…"

It was now time to meet the aliens…

But before that, they have to ask something to Yumi…

"Yumi… How are their conditions? Are they still alive?" Marco asked the woman-in-charge of the Arians.

"Yes… It seems that Wallace's preparation wasn't in vain. They were not suffocated to mana yet…"

"Yet?"

"Yes. We still have to give them a few hours to ensure that everything is safe." Yumi replied to the leader of the Lucent Force.