A small sphere-shaped metal rests quietly in Aleph’s palms. It was six points simir to the nuclear reactor used in his nuclear suits. There should’ve been light is transparent part, yet there weren’t any.

  “It’s… this. I ’t be wrong.”

  plex emotiohrough him. Although most of its exterior was showing signs of rust aerioration, he could still recall the day it was created.

  It was her than the actal dark energy reactor he made in his past life.

  “Exterior is fully scrapped. The insides…”

  Using Elemental Sight and Great Sage, Aleph easily pleted a thh analysis of it.

  “It could be used as a framework. There are some materials I could also reuse…”

  Throughout the st few months, Aleph obtained several dozen industries under his trol. That was the result of using the cilors’ hidden assets to grow them as businesses in various sectors.

  In turn, it became easier to obtain materials outside his identity as the third institute’s assistant director.

  After some time, Aleph sighed.

  “It’s been so long. If this was left to be like this…”

  Knowing the notion of yreatest finding buried by time was a plicated thing to feel—despite intending to keep it hidden in the first pce.

  “I should be more careful now. I’ll have to take the initiative and keep a peaceful bance…”

  In his previous life, his prestige that started from being a war soldier steadily spiraled out of trol. That ended up in him being someohat must be dealt with no matter the cost.

  It was pletely different now where his danger was “retively manageable” to the higher-ups. That bance allowed him to be free of human disturbances.

  While going through nostalgia, Aleph crushed the blue crystal box in his palm.

  [Cursed Energy (verted): 2071 → 2110]

  The surge of cursed energy filled Aleph’s body. The pink-bergy swirled around his right arm before disappearing.

  “I could either use the Diary to learn Reversed Curse Teique and the likes. For now…”

  Aleph decided to cim the [Sanctuary Key]. Unlike what he expected, it existed in the form of a silver card the size of an ATM Card.

  [Sanctuary Key: Oime use item. Grants the set of knowledge required by the user into the form of books. Limited to Level B Clearand below (See More).]

  [***Level B Clearance - Data cssified on the level that could potentially ge the tial ndscape. It includes developed power systems, wide-scale pary ons, geic research…]

  Although the card weighed a few grams at best, Aleph felt its heaviness.

  “This is the real thing…”

  He recalled the things everyone in the Previous Era will aplish. Now, he had to choose something that could potentially give them an advantage against the honkai.

  “With the w of proportional increase, it’s best to arm a select few who could fight herrschers alone. If that experiment yields some results…”

  Turns out, the MANTIS surgery as well as Mei’s postpo served as an experiment for Aleph. He wao see whether the ges he made were big enough to affect the progression of honkai. After all, honkai’s strength is proportional to the civilization’s. If the tter was strong, so would be the former.

  That h’s biggest since he realized which world he was in.

  “...Alright.”

  He decided on his purpose for the [Sanctuary’s Key]. With a light pinch, the silver card shone brilliantly. The moment, Aleph found himself inside a white space. It was simir to the one he went after toug the herrscher core. Only, there are faint silhouettes of bookshelves aronic terminals.

  Out of them, a solid terminal was located a few meters in front of him. Whe closer, he fully saw its intricate design. The terminal seems to have merged with the white space. The s was made of unknown materials.

  In it, Aleph saw numerous symbols he couldn’t reize. It was as if he glimpsed upon dozens of alien civilizations in one go.

  “This pce… where is it..?”

  His Elemental Sight ran at full power. The back of his eyes became extremely hot. A streak of blood came from inside his nose.

  “Kukh..!”

  A sed ter, Aleph could no longer hold it. He forcibly ‘turned off’ Elemental Sight. His head felt extremely heavy, something far inparable to any battle he had ever been into.

  “Great Sage… Prepare a detailed report.”

  {Parsing information…}

  A while ter, a response came back.

  {Result: The current location does in any dimension. After correting to the data stored, it is a location formed by thoughts and cepts. It may be detached to the known Euclidean Dimensions.}

  A simple and brief clusion came out of the girl’s voice.

  “I… ’t recall many things anymore. Have you recorded it?”

  {Answer: It has been recorded.}

  Upon hearing that answer, Aleph slowly recovered. The heaviness of his head was still there, but he could now fun as per normal.

  “Huff… This went beyond my expectations.”

  Just looking around the pce alone gave Aleph some data regarding “ceptual spaces”. It reminded him of the Stigma Space.

  Aleph soon snapped out of it and touched the terminal. The moment he did so, a nguage was selected on its own.

  The familiar words aers gave out a sense of ingruence.

  “Sanctum…”

  From the terminal, there was some basiformation.

  This pce was called the Third Sanctum. It ce responsible for literally st information. The silver card allowed him to withdraw a specifiowledge’ of his choice.

  Meaning to say, the more specific the knowledge he wahe more detailed it would be; otherwise, it would be meneral.

  “A pce to store information… How crazy…”

  The more Aleph scrolled down, the more studies he saw. Despite using the search bar that should’ve sorted them, they were still innumerable. He was seeing lifelong works of tless civilizations.

  “Esper… this should be it.”

  In the end, his choice was narrowed down on the information of Espers. The introdu—a two sentence long summary—stated they were the geic warriors that undergo geic ges. It fits with the MANTIS project ba MOTH.

  “I shouldn’t choose a specifie. It’s iable to have different enviros…”

  After an hour of searg, Aleph finally chose the study to be brought back with him. After he did so, he tried to 'look' at this space two more times before his brain gave up.

  Soon, the time for his departure from this space came.

  “One hour time limit. If I could e back again…”

  The sensation of falling into water drowned Aleph’s words. When he came back to his senses, he was baside the abandoned hangar. Only, there were hundreds of printed pages atop his hands. Motes of silver light dissipated under his sight.

  “Achievement Huhis is still the right way.”

  Once again, he was reminded of its potential.

  *****A/N: The Sanctum came from the he Legendary Meic". You think of it as a database of tless civilizations' lifelong work for a specific purpose. There are other funs to it, but the database ste is the main focus for now.

  Also, apologies for the ck of updates yesterday. I got too caught up with real-life matters...