Eating these foods, I feel like even my mood has considerably improved.

Then, looking at Alka, I make a grand bow: "Thank you, Lord Alka, if it weren't for you..."

Before I finish speaking, Alka interrupts: "No need for that, I just used your money to buy these outside, at most I just helped with the transporting."

Alka laughs and pats her shoulder: "Alright, you go on ahead and stay busy."

Watching Alka as he walks away.

Mishiro waves her hand: "Goodbye."

"Alright, goodbye."

Without turning his head, Alka waves his hand and walks towards the newly rebuilt temple not far away.

From its shape and materials, you can tell this is a newly constructed building.

This is the newly rebuilt and activated research temple.

Of course, all kinds of building materials were provided by them, after all, the inside has long been empty.

Most of them are gathered in this temple.

At the top of the temple, a special nest has been built. The Crystal Dragon lies there idly, not knowing what it's up to.

Surrounded by a large group of Puppet Girls.

The Vastva people who come and go have gotten used to the powerful creature at the top which they haven't seen before.

"Password!" As Alka is about to enter, suddenly a Puppet Girl jumps out from the shadows in front of him.

"One Three? What password?" Alka says puzzled.

He doesn't remember there being a need for a password to get in here.

The Puppet Girl named One Three crosses her arms defiantly, saying: "Captain said this is now an important place, and to enter you need to say the password, no matter who you are!"

"But I just came out from here a while ago? Orders came in that quickly?"

"Doesn't matter, it's an order, even the captain has to obey!"

The Puppet Girl says vehemently, looking serious and meticulously thorough.

Helplessly, Alka looks up at the top, the Crystal Dragon looks at him with a gloating smile.

"What is the password?"

"Do you think I can get in?" Ulu Liwus points at himself and says.

"Alright, alright." Alka helplessly connects with Lucilia through the soul link.

To inquire.

"What is the password?"

"What password?"

"The password to enter the temple? Isn't One Three guarding the door under your orders?"

"No, there's no outsider here, this is your space control. Why would there be a need for a password, are you feeling confused in the head?"

Upon hearing this, Alka immediately knows he's been pranked.

He looks helplessly at One Three in front of him.

At this moment, One Three also realizes she's been caught and leaps next to the Crystal Dragon, playfully rolling around.

"Hahaha, caught you, caught you!"

Ulu Liwus also shows a gleeful smile.

"Haha, see, I told you, using such a simple trick would definitely fool him."

"Hahahaha..."

Listening to the laughter coming from the top, Alka sighs in resignation and rubs his head, feeling perhaps it's time to rest.

Thinking this, he pushes the door and goes inside.

"What's going on outside? Why are they laughing so happily?" Chadite, holding a book, looks at Alka as he enters and asks.

"Nothing, it's just they played a prank on me." Alka says helplessly.

Inside the temple, there stands a massive bookshelf packed densely with books and various materials. Aside from this entire wall, the whole ceiling is filled with such bookshelves.

Since they arrived in this space, a month and a half has passed.

During this month and a half, they've spent almost all their time here.

And through collaboration, they built this research temple.

Many previously broken research machines, rendered unusable due to a decrease in world Magic Power, have all been moved here as scrap.

Beyond the top of the temple, there's also spatial layers.

That's where the real research takes place.

Of course, those spatial layers were newly created by Alka recently.

The old spatial layers long vanished over time with the consumption of magic, but before disappearing, the scholars had already taken out everything inside, which was fortunate.

Indeed, the ancestors of Vastva saw today's scenario long ago.

However, some among them always harbored various lucky thoughts.

Meanwhile, some Wise Ones had already started preparing.

They meticulously protected all sorts of books, research tools, results, and materials.

Physical protection rather than magical.

They foresaw that if they could really leave later on, these things might become the basis for their survival.

And so it was.

"Where's Simon?" Alka asks.

Chadite points to the central hall: "He should be in Lab 3."

Upon hearing this, Alka nods and heads to the hall toward a marked ordinary door with the number 3.

He pushes the door open and walks in.

It's just a door frame, standing right in the middle of the hall.

But when Alka opens the door to go inside, he doesn't come out from the back of the door but directly enters the spatial layer.

This is a safe environment for simpler, more convenient, and faster spatial layer travel.

Upon arriving at Lab 3, it appears bright as day. A light sphere resembling the sun is positioned at the very top of the space, providing comprehensive, shadowless bright and soft illumination for the entire lab.