[Warning: Concept Tier self-destruct attack detected!] [Warning: Energy barrier overloaded by 999%!] [Warning: Core logic unit contaminated by an unresolvable Law of Causality!] [Evasive action impossible!]
Inside the Destroyer Mecha, shrill alarms rang in Season Star's ears, heralding death.
The twisted meteor formed from a god and an Apostle, carrying the despair and fury of a city sacrificed whole, had reached the Destroyer Mecha's chest.
Black-and-red light washed over the mecha's heavy armor. In the next instant, both sides would be annihilated.
Atop the city walls, every surviving soldier of the Western European War Zone held their breath.
They watched helplessly as the light that embodied their last hope and final act of madness hurtled toward the mountain of steel.
But the earth-shattering explosion they expected never came.
It was as though someone had forcibly pressed pause on time.
Everything fell silent.
The black-and-red meteor formed by the fusion of a god and an Apostle hung motionless before the Destroyer Mecha's chest, still carrying its resolve to burn everything away.
The energy flames blazing across it froze into a picture of colored glass.
Behind the meteor stood the Divine Throne, which had just risen, twisting and roaring.
Before the Divine Throne stood the Annihilator Mecha, a beam of Formatting light gathered in its palm.
Sky, earth, city walls—everything fell utterly still.
This was not time stopping.
The entire space, along with every law within it, had been locked down by an incomprehensible will.
Inside the Destroyer Mecha, every screen flashing a red warning before Season Star froze in place.
Her thoughts still worked, but every connection between her and the Data Heaven she had created had been severed.
The blue world of zeros and ones looked as though an administrator had pulled its network cable, leaving it a