His pace was unhurried, his aura restrained.
A stark contrast to the dazzling brilliance of Keynes.
He calmly stepped into the device, and the metal door slid shut without a sound.
The runes on the device's surface lit up again and it began to operate.
One second… two seconds… three seconds…
Time seemed to stretch.
At first, the crowd paid it no mind, assuming it was just a routine procedure.
However, ten seconds passed, then twenty… The device's light, instead of fading, grew brighter and brighter.
The dark silver runes flickered violently, as if breathing, and an extremely faint hum of energy could even be heard from within the apparatus.
This anomaly was completely different from everyone else's test.
Just as the crowd was beginning to feel surprised—
HUM!
The device's light suddenly reached its peak, then receded in an instant like a receding tide.
The metal door slowly opened.
