It was a rift visible clearly across the entire Tarash Plains—as though the sky itself had been torn apart by some invisible force. Above the smoldering wreckage of the Crawling Calamity, black cracks spread outward at an astonishing speed. Along the edges of the rift, countless streams of blue light converged into bolts of tremendous energy, resonating with the ley lines leaking from the Azure Network below and gradually weaving into a blinding web of lightning!
Then, the black rift surrounded by that forest of lightning expanded until it could cover the entire Azure Well. Something seemed to "open" at its core, and a hazy, chaotic shadow churned and rotated in its depths. Accompanied by a low rumble, the soldiers on the ground saw a vast metallic edge slowly squeeze out of the rift.
Countless energy currents surged across the surface of the colossal construct, gathering into dancing lightning. As though trying to drag the behemoth back, they roiled around the rift, yet that metallic bow continued breaking free of the obstruction. With the support of the Azure Network, a hole had been punched through the barrier between "layers of reality," and this towering warship, which had never been permitted to enter the material world, was descending upon the mortal realm.
"What... is that thing..." Jinna heard someone beside her mutter. Her heart clenched again and again—merely looking at that enormous shadow emerging from the dark rift, she felt an almost suffocating pressure engulf her completely. Yet the feeling did not rob her of the ability to act. She kept watch over the reloading progress of every weapon aboard the Dawn of the Mortal World. All Supercritical Accelerators had finished reloading.
"Whatever it is... we can't let it come through!" Jinna gritted her teeth, her fingers gripping the handrail before