Four hundred kilometers from the Main Base, Ronan saw those light wings blotting out the sky.
Not long before, he had heard his comrades excitedly shouting about the so-called "Service Light Divine Bird."
There were also things like the "Service Demon Scroll" and "Demon Subduing Diagram Scroll"—if not for those latter two, he would not even have been able to confirm what exactly was happening at the moment.
"Lieutenant Ronan, seize this chance." Lieutenant Dong Ye's booming voice came through from several kilometers away, making the communicator buzz. "Field Officer Fang's orders: calibration and obstacle-clearing for Increase 124 Base Building Module must be completed within half an hour. Module Four is already en route for airdrop..."
Ronan gave an "Mm," then stressed, "Received," before ending the call. He withdrew his gaze from the sky and looked instead at the endless, massive outlines of glaciers some ten kilometers away, newly exposed beneath the strong light.
Pupil Ring Asteroid 28758's ultra-low-temperature environment had produced vast glaciers containing nitrogen, ammonia, and methane. At first glance, they lacked any sharp edges, looking like ice cream that had melted and then refrozen into random shapes.
But when such glaciers rose and fell, stretching in rings for hundreds of kilometers and blocking the entire view... especially when they had been activated or half-activated, becoming giant beasts capable of combining, reshaping, and devouring life at any moment, they looked entirely different.
The light wings of the "Service Light Divine Bird" swept past, causing the surface temperature to soar in an instant. Some of the glaciers, already in an extremely unstable state, began to emit billowing smoke. In fact, it was semi-liquid frozen nitrogen and methane pouring downward, pressing toward the lowland where they stood.
A glacier collapse like this would not crush anyone to death, but Ronan