novelraw Chapter 240 240: The Breakthrough
Chapter 240 240: The Breakthrough
The next day, Tatehan, Riven, and Lyra found themselves in Torvan's workplace, a sprawling, cluttered space that somehow managed to feel both chaotic and meticulously organized at the same time.
The air smelled of solder and machine oil, and the faint hum of fabrication equipment filled the background.
Tools hung from racks on the walls, half-assembled devices sat on workbenches in various states of completion, and holographic blueprints flickered in the air above several stations, rotating slowly as they displayed complex schematics.
Torvan's workplace was equally as normal and futuristic as it could be.
For someone who built really cool high tech devices and weapons for the Red crest clan, wasn't his workshop too ordinary?
There was nothing sleek here, just normal with some touch of the sleekness.
Now, why were they here, I mean, it wasn't casual to just be in the man's office without having something important to your presence.
Well, the man had called them here personally, sending a message through Tatehan's phone device early that morning with a simple but intriguing statement: I've got something. You need to see this.
And so now they were all seated on kinda cool chairs that Torvan had clearly dragged over from different parts of the workshop, with only Torvan himself standing, his posture animated, his eyes bright with the kind of barely contained excitement that came from someone who had just solved a problem they had been obsessing over for weeks.
He stood in front of a large workbench, his hands resting on the edge, and he looked at each of them in turn before he spoke.
"There's a force field around the Obscuron's territory, right?" Torvan asked, his tone casual.
Tatehan, Riven, and Lyra all nodded in the affirmative, their expressions serious. They had all been briefed on the intel from the interrogation, had all heard about the invisible barrier that surrounded the West and the lethal defense system that would incinerate anyone who tried to cross it without authorization.
Torvan nodded as well, as if their confirmation was exactly what he had expected.
"Right. So here's the thing. We don't actually know anything about that force field. I mean, not really. What he know is like a scratch on the surface of something really bigger. For now we know it exists. We know it's dangerous. But we don't know how it works, how it's powered, what kind of energy it uses, or what its weaknesses are. We don't know if it's a continuous barrier or if it has gaps. We don't know if it's static or adaptive. We don't know anything."
Tatehan leaned forward slightly, his arms resting on his knees. "Yeah. That's the problem. The battle commander said that trying to get through it without knowing what you're doing would kill you. Probably pretty fast."
Torvan grinned, a sharp, almost manic expression that made him look like a man who had just been handed the keys to a puzzle he had been dying to solve. "Exactly. And that's why I've been working on this."
He turned, grabbed something from the workbench behind him, and held it up for them to see.
It was a small device, roughly the size of a human hand, with a rectangular body made of dark, metal. The surface was smooth except for a series of small vents along the sides and a glowing panel on the front that glowed faintly with a soft blue light.
There were no visible buttons or controls, just the sleek, minimalist design that suggested it had been built for a very specific purpose.
They all stared at the device in surprise. They were intrigued actually. Torvan just brought out a weird device that they had never seen before and shown it to them.
Lyra leaned forward, her eyes narrowing as she studied the device. "What is it?"
Torvan set the device down on the workbench carefully, almost reverently, and then he turned back to face them.
"It's a field analyzer. A scanner, basically. But not just any scanner. This thing is designed to sample and analyze energy fields, force barriers, electromagnetic shields.. , any…anything that generates a detectable energy signature."
He paused, letting that sink in, and then he continued.
"When you get within about two meters of the force field, you activate this device. It doesn't break the barrier, doesn't try to penetrate it either, doesn't send any signals through it too. It just sits there and passively absorbs data. Radiation signatures, energy wavelengths, frequency patterns, structural integrity markers… yunno …everything the field is putting out."
Absorbs data of the force field?
This was a totally unexpected revelation!
Radiation signatures… energy wavelengths … all those stuff Torvan mentioned.
Riven raised an eyebrow, her arms crossed over her chest. "And then?"
Torvan grinned again. "And then you bring it back to me. I connect it to my analysis system here, download the data, and run it through a series of diagnostic algorithms. Once I've got the data, I can study it. I can figure out what kind of energy the field is using, how it's being generated, where the weak points are, and most importantly, what kind of countermeasures we can develop to either disrupt it, penetrate it, or shut it down entirely."
There was silence at first after the man's words, the sensibility of what he had just proposed settling over the room like a physical presence.
Tatehan stared at the device, his mind already running through the implications.
This was actually a good stuff.
If Torvan's scanner worked, if they could actually gather data on the force field without triggering it, then they would have something no one else had: actionable intelligence on the Obscuron's primary defensive system.
They could find its weaknesses, exploit them, and potentially open a path into the West that no one thought was possible.
Everyone exchanged glances. Tatehan looked at Riven, who looked at Lyra, who looked back at Tatehan. Their expressions shifted from skepticism to realization to something that bordered on awe.
And then, in perfect unison, all three of them said the same word.
"GENIUS!"