Polynomial Invariants

 

「Hestia. Bring the Ark here.」

「Understood, Asia.」

The center of the arena lit up, and the floor slid open. From beneath it, a massive cube rose up.

It was far larger than any Silhouette—an imposing thirty-meter square box. A fittingly majestic object to be called an Ark.

「I know what’s inside. Hestia. Alexandros I. Do you?」

「When I discovered it, it was sealed too tightly to analyze.」

「……」

Alexandros I remained silent. Evidently, he hadn’t grasped the contents either.

「Then let me give you a hint. There is only one Super AI who would possess something like this—Europa. It concerns Zeus.」

「Hermes, what the hell did you bring in here?!」

「Something entrusted to us by Europa-sama… Modeled after the great god himself—Super AI Zeus!」

Trembling with emotion, Alexandros I was overcome. Okeanos had never acknowledged them as human. But Europa had.

And the Ark was the undeniable proof that she recognized the Barbaroi as her kin.

「Alexandros I. You are to face