In Cecil Year 6, more and more signs began to show that the main body of the Magic Tide had drawn near the planetary system where Loren was located.
Over the past month, the giant sun that shone upon the land had displayed the phenomenon of spreading blood-red veins four times. The Magic Tide's powerful disruptive force had begun to envelop the high-energy celestial bodies along the path of its advancing spearhead. The Magic Tide Observation Device within the Ogre Tribes Nation detected increasingly intense Magic Tide disturbance signals every day. As that signal continued to draw closer, even the steadily operating Azure Network inside the planet began to show faint fluctuations—though these were quite slight compared with the optical anomalies visible to the naked eye on the giant planet's surface, to Milmina, who kept her eyes fixed upon the stars at all times, every tremor within the Azure Network was like a heartbeat, foretelling the ever-approaching footsteps of that final trial.
The sun gradually climbed to its highest point in the sky. The cloudlike structures surrounding the giant sun outlined hazy patterns beyond the atmosphere, like a solemn and sacred celestial curtain. The faint wood grain on the sun's surface stood out in the radiance, and blood-red traces could vaguely be seen spreading between them, forming delicate structures like a network of capillaries.
Gawain stood quietly at the edge of the terrace, looking up at the now unmistakable anomaly in the sky. Those blood-red veins were like wounds splitting open across the giant planet, while the faint seepage of blood between them was an ominous sign of the approaching end—but as he watched it all, his expression was calmer than ever. Heti stood beside him, reporting the intelligence that had just arrived:
"...As of yesterday, the Firmament Station broadcast-relay