Mari had waited as the systems powered up, lighting all the consoles around her. She could hardly restrain herself from snatching the controls and starting steering procedures. Instead, she sat in her seat, tapping her nail against the console, watching her screens. Even the screens were fascinating, to be honest. She had monitors giving visuals from every angle around Hakusan. At the moment, all she could see was the seemingly endless steel cavern. There were also sensors producing power readings from all over the machine. After a while, she was done waiting. Sources didn’t take that long to power up their machines. Level 3 sources usually had themselves completely synced up with their machine within a couple of minutes. Mariko studied the controls. They were exactly as they had seemed