The planet, already shattered into pieces, now looked even more miserable. Nearly half its matter had "evaporated," and its landmasses were scattered like porcelain shards dropped onto the ground. Our battle with Harlan had greatly accelerated the planet's disintegration. It now barely resembled a planet at all. The collapse of its landmasses and the distortion of its gravity field made it look like a flattened potato, bulging around the equator and roughly disk-shaped. Countless broken black fragments formed the main body of this giant disk. The blood-red glow at the core was many times dimmer than before. Now it looked like a faint red light bulb buried in the middle of that pile of disk-shaped matter. When that core went completely dark, this dark planet would disappear entirely. Sandora and I had to subdue Harlan before then, because his Glory Form had not yet completely collapsed, making it difficult for him to leave. Once his Glory fully crumbled, Harlan would instead be free of its constraints. When that happened, I was worried whether the spatial blockade established by the conventional forces outside would still work. This Fallen Emperor's abilities were bizarre, his strength considerable, and his fighting spirit as stubborn as a wild bull's. Earlier, Sandora had tried using the layers of military blockades outside to weaken his resolve—though really, it had just been meant to scare him...
Glory Starships were closely tied to Apostles themselves. They could be regarded as another form of existence for Shilin Apostles. Thus, nearly every Shilin Apostle capable of deploying a Planet Warship could not leave their own "Glory." Viska alone was an exception. Every Shilin Apostle's Glory Form had its own special ability, and Viska's happened to be "acting independently." There should have been other powers besides that, but I had never looked