Eternal Divine Kingdom's True Form

Beneath the roar of machinery, fully armed mercenaries strung up barricade tape across a secluded street, sealing it off completely.

A driverless bus packed with passengers passed by. The exhausted people inside almost all craned their necks to look beyond the mercenaries' barricade.

A vast, magnificent dome of light, hundreds of meters high, covered an entire neighborhood. Dazzling golden radiance shimmered across its surface.

The dome dwarfed every building in Wente City. Only the towering city wall seemed capable of rivaling this monumental creation.

A power like a god's had descended from the sky and sealed off the sprawling neighborhood.

It was a cage.

Almost everyone realized that the moment they saw it.

Behind the hazy golden light, an indescribable mass of twisted flesh seemed to heave inside the dome, vast as a sea of blood and meat. The broken silhouettes of machines appeared to float upon it.

Whispers permeated the darkness, sounding beside every ear.

Some people looked away. Others closed their eyes. More began to wonder.

What kind of terrifying being warranted imprisonment in a cage so immense it seemed born of a god's wrath?

Under the black night sky, fully armed mercenaries continued to block every route to the dome.

It was not just the people of Novitt District. In Aka District, Storm District, and Cloud District, countless people looked up at the enormous cage.

The city's network had long since gone down. People could only whisper to those nearby.

No one knew what lay within the dome.

Perhaps it was another god, or something even gods feared.

Mercenaries in crisp uniforms and priests in white robes knocked on doors one by one. At gunpoint, they ordered those without work to stay home and made every homeless person sleeping on the streets put up a tent.

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