"We're not going through here," I received a typed message on my puppet monitor.
"How come?" I asked.
"That leads deeper into the bastion, we'll use the hatches over there," Tao Yang reminded me.
I was so focused on the Silver Rakshasa that I missed that.
"Right, let's head there then," I typed back and we slowly moved forward.
Thankfully, the rubber on our feet lasted just enough to reach the hatches before they ripened.
The hatches though weren't easy to open and were squeaking as they were being turned and twisted.
Some of the Rakshasa above us began moving, but seeing nothing but three metallic puppets next to a hatch was not worth their nap time so they just returned back to sleep.
The hatch thankfully opened up after a while.
I grabbed the administrator and placed him on my shoulders, it understood what I wanted to do and grabbed at my head to secure itself.
After a few nods, we jumped into the hatch as it closed down. Though we made a lot of noise afterward, no White Rakshasa came down to check.
We slowly slid down the hatch by spreading our arms and using the friction to slow our fall down as sparks flared out from our hands.
Three loud thuds echoed as we landed on the ground, destroying the rubber soles completely.
The bottom of the hatch was full of dust and fully deteriorated matter. While the exit of the hatch was locked.
The Administrator slid down and approached the closed door, it used its master key and opened the path forward which led to the same room where we found the body of Tao Yang the last time.
The entire area was ruined, a lot of my puppets were on the ground, destroyed, and out of order. But there were no other Rakshasa here anymore. But on the other hand, the entire area where Tao Yang's frozen body was eviscerated. A massive hole quite similar to the size of the Noble Rakshasa was on the ground.
We slowly approached the hole and found the box where the Noble Rakshasa had been trapped before.
A massive square that was ruptured in half was at the bottom of this floor. Old bleached bones were piled up like a mountain inside the broken and torn box.
These were probably the bodies of the people who lived in the bastion before.
Even as a puppet, you could easily see Tao Yang's body shudder. She must feel great sadness for the loss and inhumane death of her people.
The Blue Sun looked as confused as a deer in a headlight.
"This is something I theorized, but it's incredibly hard to achieve. This is the same type of reactions that happen inside a star. But instead of hydrogen being squeezed under the immense pressure and heat of a star to create helium and thus creating energy it is using Saint Qi, compressing it hard enough to create... Origin Qi, it is happening right in front of my eyes."
"I really have no idea what hydrogen or helium is... but I seem to understand what you mean. I also tried to compress and condense Qi into a higher form, but never achieved it," the Blue Sun said.
We both looked at Tao Yang like impressed little children after seeing a hat trick and waiting for the magician to explain.
She shook her head, "I only have supervised the military operation of our people, I have no idea what the two of you are talking about. The reason why I mentioned that this thing had short-cutted is because this is how it usually looks when it is out of energy.
It should be bright white and hot to the touch, not to mention it has an immense gravitational pull that it would try and pull us and crush us into it if we get too close." She said.
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"Gravity," I said, "That's it... gravitational power," I said.
"How?" the Blue Sun asked.
"The size of a star is big enough that it creates a massive gravitational pull around it, leading planets in an orbit to move. It is the very same thing that is happening here in the Beyond, although I have no idea why the Beyond is a massive flat land, it is still affected by the sun of the Beyond and its gravitational pull taking it alongside it in the vast open space."
"But what does that have to do with anything," she asked.
"The gravitational pull of a star is so high that it should in theory make it collapse upon itself, but, since the hydrogen, which are small tiny atoms that make up the majority of the star, compress due to this gravity, they fuse together and change to a different element. Which is helium.
The reaction that makes this happen is Nuclear Fusion and the power of these atoms fusing together creates both heat which we feel and light which we see coming from the sun. The heat itself would stop the star from collapsing even under the massive pressure." I said.
"I see," the blue sun said as she began, "So this small thing makes the same reaction?" she asked.
"Yes and now, a star would usually run out eventually from fuel. Roughly and this is not a 100% exact, but Hydrogen turns to helium. Once the hydrogen is depleted the helium will cause the star to expand, and those are red stars that burn hot and bright.
Helium will also undergo several reactions as it is being depleted and turns to carbon in the star's core and this keeps going until all helium is depleted turning to silicon, this is the shortest part of a star's life as the first few can last from trillions to billions of years, but once the star has nothing but silicon in it, it will transform to iron as the star fully dies in mere days.
The iron that is so highly condensed due to the pressure and weight of the start would start rebounding on itself as it collapses creating one of two things. Either a neutron star where even a spoonful of the matter can be heavier than ten tons of steel. Or a black hole."
"Thank you for the lesson in astronomy but I really don't see how this even fits what we're seeing," the Blue Sun said.
"They are using the same method here, this engine takes up heavenly Qi, condenses it into Saint Qi, and then this reaction will keep going until it becomes Origin Qi.
This creates a shit ton of energy for the Bastion, and finally, it is transformed into... well, I have no idea what goes beyond Origin Qi but this thing is trying to do it, and in doing so it helps itself from collapsing under the pressure.
Not only is it using the Qi in the vicinity to power itself, it amplifies it... it is the closest thing to perpetual energy through fusion something I have never thought possible."