"What did it do?" the Champion asked the Tinkerer, who stood in front of him with the suppressed Specter Core.
The Tinkerer took a deep breath, terror on her face.
"It encrypted our database," she said in horror.
The Champion furrowed his brows. "So? Just decrypt it."
The Tinkerer laughed nervously. "That's not that easy."
"Why not?" the Champion asked.
"We don't know how it has been encrypted. We need a number to decrypt it, and we don't know that number," she explained.
"Then just try all of the numbers," the Champion said.
"Champion, the number might be thousands or millions of digits long. We would need to try out every number from one to Googolplex. If we use our most advanced machines to try all of the numbers, we might need trillions of years."
The Champion's eyes widened in shock.
At that point, creating a new database and researching everything from scratch would be faster!
"What's the impact on Aegis?" he asked.
