Their world doesn't need gods.

Chapter 266 Sheryl and the remains of an ancient civilization's military base

"Chloe, use the detector on the nano armor to scan the surroundings. See if there is any suspected management room or energy room here."

Alfred ordered Chloe.

At the same time, he squatted down and checked the ground where the four people were.

The floor was paved with some kind of concrete.

As far as Alfred knew, the only building materials in this world were similar to ancient concrete, and most buildings were still built with stone.

The concrete used to pave the ground is not ordinary concrete.

Some magical materials are mixed in it, making the originally hard concrete have a certain flexibility like asphalt.

This might be a passage for some large vehicle to dock and move - like a magic spaceship or something.

Alfred speculated that the ancient magic spaceship he and others were looking for was probably docked somewhere in this huge underground space.

"Senior Al, this place is really too big. I can't find any facilities like a management room. But there is a device similar to an operation terminal not far in this direction. Should we go over and take a look first?"

Chloe said, pointing in a direction in the darkness.

After walking about two or three hundred meters in the dark, Alfred and the others saw the terminal that Chloe had mentioned.

“This, this thing…”

After seeing the full picture of the terminal, Sheryl seemed quite surprised.

"Any questions?"

"I may have seen this thing, but I'm not sure it's what I'm thinking of."

As Sheryl answered Alfrid's questions, her eyes were fixed on the terminal.

Her voice was trembling a little, and it felt like something was wrong.

Alfred noticed that Cheryl seemed anxious to confirm something using the terminal.

He looked at Chloe and asked.

"Chloe, can you scan this machine and see if you can use the armor's energy to give it functions?"

"I know, I'll try!"

After Chloe scanned the terminal, she disassembled the terminal shell and connected the energy interface to her own nano armor, debugging the magic flow and frequency conversion phase.

During this whole process, Cheryl had been watching her anxiously.

As soon as Chloe was ready, Cheryl immediately and skillfully activated the terminal.

[Disconnect from the main server and enter stand-alone operation mode...]

The text displayed on the terminal is the ancient Elf language that is currently only used by the royal family of the Elf Empire.

However, as more and more information was displayed on the screen, Alfred discovered that the language in the terminal was very different from the ancient Elven language in terms of word order and tense.

It seemed to be written using words from the ancient Elven language combined with the grammar of the language used by the Empire today.

I don't know if Sheryl noticed this. Anyway, her expression was very solemn. She operated the terminal skillfully and tried to log in to it.

[Identity verification ID: Colonel Vidania Nicole Ingelmus...biometrics...cancelled...original password verification.]

Cheryl entered a name on the terminal that Alfred seemed to be familiar with, and then entered a password.

[Landing successful, welcome, Colonel Vidania. 】

"Ms. Sheryl, since you can operate this terminal, that means..."

Chloe asked cautiously.

"Well... I've told you before that I have two past lives, right?"

Cheryl raised her head and spoke to the others with a complicated expression.

"I think I was born in this world once in my previous life, in the ancient civilization that built this huge facility. This should have been a dock for building and docking space battleships."

"Space battleship?"

Emilia placed her fingers on her cheek and tilted her head in confusion.

Alfred quietly warned Emilia not to disturb Cheryl yet, and he would give her detailed instructions later.

Cheryl ignored the two of them and anxiously searched for some information in the terminal.

"No... There is nothing at all. What on earth is going on?"

Cheryl muttered to herself. She refused to give up easily and continued to search for the file in the terminal.

"What's not there?"

Chloe asked, not understanding what Cheryl meant.

"All the document records in this terminal are either damaged or have been cleared. However, in order to avoid the loss of important data, this kind of military terminal should have a recovery program."

"There is no recovery program in this terminal, or the recovery program is useless?"

Alfred speculated.

"I retrieved the recovery program, but the terminal showed that even the data in the recovery program itself was damaged... But I found a three-dimensional map of this place."

Cheryl asked Alfred and the others to look at the screen.

There were no markings on the three-dimensional map stored in the terminal. Although it was called a map, it looked like a space filled with three-dimensional blocks of color when the game scene was first modeled.

"This is the energy room. It contains a modal engine that can provide energy for the entire base. I hope it's not broken. Let's go to the main control room and the General Staff Headquarters later..."

"Ms. Sheryl, there is nothing marked on this three-dimensional map. How did you know?"

Chloe looked at the three-dimensional map on the screen and asked Cheryl in surprise.

She didn't understand how Sheryl had found these facilities with just a map that only identified the spaces but had no instructions or any equipment labels.

"I've been to this base before... Anyway, let's go to the energy room first."

Cheryl didn't want to discuss the matter in depth, so she walked in front to lead the way for the three people.

Chloe, Alfred and Emilia were tactful enough not to ask any more questions, but just followed her silently.

After the four of them arrived at the energy room, Sheryl activated the modal engine she mentioned.

The energy supply to the entire base was immediately restored, and even basic infrastructure such as lights and elevators resumed normal operation.

Then, Cheryl silently led the four people to the main control room of the base facility.

She used the terminal equipment in the main control room, anxiously searching for some information again.

However, all the information in the base's main system was not saved.

"Sheryl, is there something you're anxious to know?"

Alfred asked Cheryl as they made their way to the staff headquarters inside the base.

After hesitating for a while, Sheryl decided to explain to the three of them.

"In fact, in my previous life, I had a child who was considered an adopted daughter. The date displayed on the terminal we first encountered was less than a hundred years from the time of my death in my previous life..."

In the era when Sheryl lived, the average human lifespan was quite long.

If nothing unexpected happens, it is not difficult for a person to live beyond 200 years old.

In other words, when that ancient civilization experienced something that caused this base to be completely abandoned, Cheryl's adopted daughter was very likely still alive.

The girl also seemed to have close ties to the military, so Sheryl wanted to find out information about her.

However, although the computers in the base were able to operate normally, most of the information stored inside had been damaged, and only a very small amount of data that was of little use to Sheryl and others was retained.

But there was one thing that Alfred was very concerned about.

According to Sheryl, there are independent timing devices in the base's main control system. These timing devices are specially used to provide timing services for the precision instruments in the base and have independent energy supply systems.

After the entire base was shut down, these timing devices continued to operate normally.

After reconnecting with the timing device, Alfred discovered that the base's main system would go into hibernation in less than 1,300 years.

Less than a hundred years later, the empire in which Alfred and others now live was born.

However, there are no records of this ancient civilization within the empire.

Almost none of the advanced magical technology mastered by this ancient civilization was passed down to the empire.

This incident made Alfred feel quite suspicious.

"Al?"

Emilia called out to the stunned Alfred.

"What's wrong?"

"No, I just noticed that you were suddenly distracted. Is there anything wrong?"

"Nothing, just something that bothers me a little."

Alfred smiled and shook his head.

Cheryl used the independent terminal device in the General Staff Headquarters, but still couldn't find the information she wanted.

With her permissions, this terminal device cannot retrieve all the information.

However, all the data that could be retrieved had been damaged without exception. Even if they hacked into the terminal device and searched it forcibly, they would probably not find any valuable intelligence.

"Sheryl?"

Chloe called out to her with some concern.

"It doesn't matter to me. That girl is no longer alive, but I still kind of care about how she lived afterwards... It's really a bit stupid."

Cheryl smiled self-deprecatingly, looked at Alfred and Emilia and changed the subject.

"I found a report. Although most of the content has become garbled, it seems that this base still has eighteen different types of space battleships. I think one of them must be the 'ancient magic spaceship' we are looking for."

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—Roderick—

Roderick sat at the foot of a staircase in Illya, staring blankly at nothing.

Because of the attack some time ago, the academy is still suspended. In fact, this kind of thing doesn't matter to Roderick. For him, taking those boring courses is just a waste of time.

But when classes were really suspended, he didn't know what to do.

More importantly, during the attack, Alfred's fiancée Rose was not killed by the attackers. Instead, it was Marina (Megan Si), whom he loved very much, who was unfortunately killed in the attack.

Roderick couldn't accept this.

For the past few days, Roderick has been sitting in an idle daze like he is now, trying to escape from reality.

At this time, he met another boy who was also sad about Marina's death.

Brady put his hands in his pockets, with no expression on his face, and walked past Roderick with a nonchalant step.

When Roderick saw Brady, he felt furious.

When the academy was attacked, Brady, the bastard, was put in detention for taking illegal drugs.

It was obvious that it was Brady who took Marina away from him, but he was unable to protect Marina.

It’s all because of Brady’s incompetence that Marina died!

This idea is unreasonable, but Roderick doesn't care!

He needed a guy who could pass the buck and take responsibility for Marina's death.

Roderick stood up subconsciously and rushed towards Brady.

"You bastard, what are you doing all of a sudden?!"

Brady, who was punched by Roderick for no reason, yelled angrily.

He tried to break free from Roderick's restraints and punched Roderick in the face with his clenched fists.

The two men started fighting at an inconspicuous staircase in the main castle.

The two of them did not hold back at all, hitting each other in the face and anywhere on the body that their fists could reach with all their might, and insulting and complaining to each other.

The place where Roderick and Brady fought was in a remote place, and under normal circumstances, few students would pass by. Not to mention that now that classes were suspended, students would hardly run to the main castle of the academy.

Even if they were discovered, the student union, which is currently busy calming down students who were frightened by the attack and handling various matters for the instructors, probably doesn't have the time to pay attention to these two people who are always causing trouble.

They fought like this until both sides were bruised and battered.

"Hey...you, you bastard, why are you crying?!"

Brady struggled hard and finally pushed Roderick away who was pressing on him.

Roderick leaned against the wall and started crying shamefully.

"It's all your fault. Why did Marina die? Aren't you awesome? Aren't you some kind of hero's son? What on earth were you doing when the academy was attacked?!"

Roderick yelled at Brady. Since he had so many powerful S-class puppets, it shouldn't be a problem just to protect Marina.

But this bastard was thrown into the detention room by the student union because of taking drugs.

If he had been there, maybe, maybe Marina wouldn't have died.

"I...yes, in comparison."

Brady was scolded by Roderick and lost his confidence and said guiltily.

Roderick was very surprised to see the usually annoying guy in this state.

"Brady you..."

Seeing Brady also shed tears of regret because of Marina's behavior, Roderick could no longer blame him.

The two fell into an awkward silence, sitting opposite each other leaning against the wall.

"Hey...Roderick, I didn't expect you to be so sad about Marina's death."