(Thank you very much to 'Blood Angel Yellow Star' for the 1888 reward, and to 'Yunqi Qinggu' and 'Youcai Luobo' for their rewards!)
Inside the Sephalos Empire's airship above Fontain City...
In a vast space at the stern of the airship stood a highly peculiar device.
It resembled the tail or head of some ferocious beast, its exterior elegantly and lavishly adorned as though plated in real gold, radiating a dazzling halo.
Though strange in appearance, the center of the device contained a transparent dome that allowed people to see inside. It was like a cockpit, or more like a capsule chamber, with cables hanging from its bottom and connecting it to various screen-equipped machines installed on the floor.
The device was enormous, more than large enough to dwarf an adult dragon. Countless gleaming crystals were embedded along its sides—every one of them a Dragonite Crystal!
Dragonite Crystals embedded in machinery?...
Wasn't that precisely the hallmark of creations born from Magiteknics?...
This enormous device was a magitek apparatus!
Near the magitek apparatus, several people in white coats who looked like researchers, along with around ten technicians in work uniforms, watched the device's movements while busily operating the screen-equipped machines.
As the magitek apparatus operated, a continuous humming filled the air. The Millennial Dragonite Crystals embedded in its body glittered, causing dense magical power to ripple through the air.
A closer look would reveal that inside the capsule chamber, a petite girl and a boy were naked, embracing each other like conjoined twins with their eyes closed, their bodies rising and falling.
The boy and girl were none other than the missing Ash and Eco!
At the head position before the magitek apparatus stood a petite dark-skinned girl and an elderly man in a white lab coat. They stared intently at