But in the end, he merely left the beautiful girl in suspense,
"Some magic,
if I told you now, it might stop working."
He gazed into the girl's breathtakingly beautiful eyes and ultimately gave only a gentle smile.
Then,
accompanied by an earth-shattering roar, the enormous transport ship, like some colossal beast, suddenly collapsed before everyone's horrified eyes.
Its massive body fell like a collapsing mountain range.
Eroded by the abyss beyond the Wall of Hercules and damaged by unknown forces, the transport ship's structure had long since become unbearably fragile.
Unable to withstand its own weight, it finally fell straight down, crashing violently into the gates of Atlantis's magnificent Second Undersea City, which stood upon the deep seafloor.
At that moment,
time seemed to freeze.
The screech of twisting metal and the crackling of scattering rubble intertwined, drawing almost everyone's attention.
Had it not been for the ancient and powerful protective barrier of Atlantis civilization, which withstood the devastating impact with unimaginable resilience,
the gates of the Permanent Magnet-Lannabodu Academy would likely have been reduced to dust beneath the collision of that colossal thing.
But even so,
the transport ship's wreckage was scattered everywhere.
Its hull had split open, exposing its intricate mechanical structure and mottled pipelines, like the fully exposed innards of a wounded beast. Seawater rapidly flooded in, swallowing this once-glorious giant of the seas.
As the many students witnessed this scene, fear surged through their hearts like a tidal wave.
When many of them learned that the testing site they were about to enter was such a terrifying place that even a Lorenz Riel deep-sea transport ship could not withstand it, terror and unease inevitably appeared in every pair of eyes.
However,
there were a few exceptions among them.
Their eyes shone with a different light—excitement,