The western technical storage area at the top level of the Temple District.
There was only one route. Entering along the ventilation ducts, avoiding the security robots' sensor network.
After bypassing fourteen security measures, approaching from the manual override point.
The Prism floated from the city's ceiling. A hexahedral polyhedron twelve meters in diameter, inside which a high-energy light core pulsed with light like a heartbeat.
Looking directly at it could cause blindness. Elion carefully opened the case. Inside was a pair of transparent lenses. Made of high-transparency see-through silica material, visually clear, but a scientist's legacy designed to block 93% of the Prism's wavelengths.
Before putting on the lenses, he instinctively murmured.
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"Mother of Light, forgive me this sin of having to shield my eyes from yours. So that your brilliance does not consume me, I turn away from you momentarily..."
His voice trailing off, he laughed inwardly.
"Covering one's eyes becomes a sin. This isn't divinity, it's surveillance."
The lenses were cold.
The moment he placed them over his eyes, the intensity of the light rays diminished significantly.
As he exhaled, his breath momentarily fogged the surface of the lenses before disappearing.
He attempted the emergency control procedure according to the schematics he had seen in the safe.
The control device was at the base of the Prism pedestal, a protection module locked with quantum encryption.
He entered the sixteen-digit passcode. Then opened the touch panel, disconnected the backup module.
After connecting the internal jumper wires to the manual bypass circuit, he inserted the fingerprint simulation code.
A moment later— "Manual control authorization granted" The clear message appeared on the screen.
Elion slightly raised the corner of his mouth.
In the middle of the Light Temple, the first 'shadow' of his creation was beginning to form.
