She went to the pilot's cabin and informed him before coming back and offering a beverage to Lucifer.
"I'm fine. I don't need anything to drink. Just get me something to eat," Lucifer said, refusing to tackle the cold drink.
"Right away." The woman left and soon brought something to eat.
In the meantime, the pilot took the necessary permission to take the flight off the ground. The plane started moving.
The journey seemed to be so short that Lucifer had just finished eating when the plane landed at the destination airport. The flight lasted for only an hour.
The current airport was a part of Magna City, which was the closest to the Uprising base. The helicopter flight, which would have taken days to get him to Uprising base, was reduced to hours because of the flight.
Leaving the plane, Lucifer stepped inside another helicopter that was already waiting for him nearby. It was the last part of the journey which took him straight to the desert where the Uprising base was hiding.
The helicopter floated in the middle of the desert as if waiting for something. Soon, an opening appeared in the ground, revealing the helipad underground. The helicopter landed on the helipad.
Sliding the door of the helicopter, Lucifer stepped aside to be greeted by two Warlocks.
"Greetings, captain. We were told that you would be coming," one of the Warlocks said. "I'm Joan, and he is Qia."
"How are you two feeling now?" Lucifer asked the two men.
He recognized the two men as they were a part of the men who fought the APF in Kensington. Since they were amongst the many that were injured like Tristan, they were sent to the Uprising base to get medical help.
They weren't part of the team that besieged the Capital City.
"We're perfectly fine now," Joan replied. "Let us escort you to the lab."
"I remember this place a bit from the first time I came here. It hasn't changed even a bit in the last eight years. Do you all still use the fingerprint system to get access to lifts?" Lucifer asked, walking towards the lift.
As he stopped in front of them, he was able to see that the sensor was still there.
"Yeah. Since we'll be getting a new base in the capital and you weren't expected to come here, there was no need to change this system," Joan let out, placing his thumb on the lift. The lift opened.
The three of them stepped inside the lift, and Joan pressed a button. The doors closed, and the lift started going down.
Stepping out of the lift, Lucifer walked to the lab. He had already been to this place when he was brought here to bet his battle gear, so it wasn't hard to locate the lab.
The lab, which covered more than half of this floor, had only one entrance which was a white door at the end of the corridor.
Pushing the door open, he stepped inside with Joan and Qia.
The leading scientist noticed Lucifer. He couldn't help but smile wryly. "You're actually here. Didn't I tell you that you didn't need to come personally? I would have sent that thing to you myself."
"There was no need for it. I needed to come here for another reason. I thought I'd pick that up while I was already here. No need for you to make an effort to send that to me. So where is it?" Lucifer asked, stepping closer to the scientist.
The white-haired scientist looked towards a dark-haired man in the back. "Bring that to me."
As the dark-haired man went to get something, the white-haired scientist accompanied Lucifer. "May I ask why you said that you needed to come here?"
"I wanted to meet the person that can never come out of this place," Lucifer replied.
"You mean you're here to take Predictor? He'll never come with you."
"I have a feeling that he won't. And I won't force him. I'm not here to take him. I'm here to simply talk to him personally," Lucifer replied.
The black-haired man returned with a small box, placing that on a glass table.
The white-haired man opened the small box to reveal the item inside. "Here it is, our last pair of gloves. Make sure they aren't destroyed again, alright? It's pretty hard to find those things. After eight years, we only managed to find two of these."
Lucifer took off the glove from his left hand, which looked old and worn out. Since his left hand and the glove on it had turned to stone, he lost the glove. Since then, he had been using his old worn-out glove that he used for the last eight years.
Soon after returning from the Dungeon, he had asked Kellian if there were more gloves.
He was told that there was another pair back at the Uprising base. Since he was coming to meet Predictor anyway, he decided to collect the gloves here.
He wore the new left-hand gloves and kept the other glove in his pocket.
"How's the work for Cassius' battle gear coming along? It's been a long time; I think you should've been done by now, right?" Lucifer asked, remembering another thing.
"That's also finished. We already sent that though. I'm sure the battle gear will reach your friend by tomorrow. Not only him, but we also prepared something for the man named Uzuki too," The scientist informed.
"Good." Lucifer turned to leave.
"Ah, wait! There's one more thing!" The scientist called out to Lucifer.
"What?" Turning around, Lucifer asked.
"We prepared something for you as well. Well, not one thing but more than one. Since we had some time to work on stuff, we managed to create some time, especially for you. I'm sure you'll love it."
"What did you create?"
"Please follow me to see," the scientist smirked, walking towards a metallic door.
He pressed a button. The door opened on its own.
Lucifer stepped inside the chamber with the scientist, stopping at a pure white room.
Not only the walls but even the ceiling and the floor were white.
"There's nothing here," Lucifer pointed out the obvious, unable to find anything.
"Correction, there's nothing here yet," the scientist responded, smiling. He walked over to the wall and drew something using his finger.
As he finished, something started happening in the room.
The wall where he had drawn started going down, revealing the other part of the room, which wasn't as empty.
"Now that we have so many resources, making these things seemed like the most logical choice. And these will help you a lot in your journey to the Divine Empire," the scientist said.