Amid the boundless golden light, a colossal alloy body the size of a mountain floated silently in midair. Its cross-shaped form, magnificent clusters of antenna towers, and hard-edged armored lines all looked so familiar—it was the Empire Admiral, which I had thought had been completely destroyed! It was here? Blasted into Sandora's body along with me? And it even seemed to be undamaged!?
Sandora's voice suddenly rang out in my mind, snapping me out of my daze. "A Jun, did you find something? My psychic field is unstable, so I can't clearly see what's inside me."
"Uh... you'll never guess this... the Empire Admiral is stuck inside you," I said, the corner of my mouth twitching. "This ship should have self-destructed. Before I lost consciousness, I saw it explode with my own eyes."
"The Empire Admiral?!" Sure enough, even Sandora cried out in shock. "But it clearly self-destructed! I saw it too! Hurry over and see what happened to it..."
Sandora didn't need to tell me what to do. I had already pulled Alaya to within a few kilometers of the Empire Admiral. From this distance, its armored belts looked like vast silver-white plains. We swiftly skimmed over the main armor belt, carefully inspecting this flagship that should theoretically have been reduced to ashes but now appeared almost completely intact. Then we discovered that parts of it seemed strange: several sections of the hull were not solid, but semi-transparent. The smaller ones were hundreds of meters across, while the larger ones covered several square kilometers. These bizarre regions roughly retained the ship's original structure, but their substance looked like fluid condensed from light. Their surfaces undulated faintly, and one could almost see the machinery and conduits within through the layer of radiance.
Those shifting "Light-Forged Bodies" gleamed silver-white, their edges