It took only a few hours to leave Orb before the Burning Legion arrived unhurriedly at Nouvel Tokyo City, stopping over the sea more than ten kilometers from the city, hovering roughly twenty to thirty meters above the water.
The Burning Legion's appearance put Nouvel Tokyo City on unilateral high alert. The city had only recently suffered an attack by the Golden Alliance, which consisted of four organizations, and it had long faced all kinds of chaotic threats. Not long after those issues had been resolved, the Burning Legion appeared again. Its massive size immediately made Nouvel Tokyo City nervous.
However, it was not Nouvel Tokyo City's officials who were tense. How could the Burning Legion's arrival not have been reported to the city? The ones who were nervous were the ordinary people living there. That the Burning Legion belonged to Orb and Xiao Ran was already public knowledge in this world, but even public knowledge felt extremely distant to ordinary people.
Yet the more nervous ordinary people became, the more they loved a spectacle. Before long, countless citizens crowded along the coastline where they could see the Burning Legion directly. Especially after the authorities released information about the Burning Legion, even more people gathered, countless pairs of binoculars trained on the massive warship from the shore.
The Burning Legion's enormous size prevented it from finding a suitable berth within bustling Nouvel Tokyo City. Even the Senpuuji Conglomerate had nowhere in the city appropriate to dock it, so it could only float at sea for the time being. That was no problem for the Burning Legion. Let alone floating for a day—even several days would not matter.
About half an hour after the Burning Legion stopped moving, the Ptolemaios and Nadeshiko rose from Nouvel Tokyo City and slowly flew over