Several dozen minutes later.
They were still aboard that Astral Ship.
Only now, the commotion in the distance was gradually subsiding.
That city, positioned at a strategic point, was about to be completely overrun.
Although the local forces resisted with all their might, and multiple Churches of Gods had intervened to interfere, faced with the Gith Army bearing down upon them, all resistance still had its limits and amounted to nothing. Not only had the barrier connected to the Earth Vein been forcibly shattered, but most of the various factions within the city had been successively purged. Even two Legendary Rank beings had died.
...Has it entered the final stage...?
Standing beside Orsaga and watching the distant scene, Kaleid silently thought to himself.
However.
The very next moment, before he could relax.
His Psionics vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
After his gaze abruptly changed.
He glared furiously toward a direction on the right and shouted:
"How dare you!"
"You actually seek to spy upon my lord!!"
The weapon at his waist instantly left its sheath.
The silver blade, gleaming with an unusual radiance, carved out a perfect arc.
As it swung at extreme speed, the magic-enhanced blade directly tore apart every current of air around it. The invisible air howled like a sea being cleaved apart, forcing the ceaseless gales across this broad expanse hundreds of meters above the ground to halt for an instant.
Had this strike landed upon that distant city, where the battle was gradually quieting down.
Without question.
It could have flattened half the city!
And killed tens of thousands!
"Pssht~"
As though it had struck something.
Like some object leaking air.
Amid the strange sound.
Not far away.
A huge, translucent figure slowly emerged from a place where there had originally been nothing.
Though