Izax wasn't surprised when he heard the news. He only smiled faintly. "Oh, they're not too late."
The return of the Demon King's City and the Demon Lord's Army to this world was a world-shaking event for everyone. Banuklak, Seradon, and the Holy See Allied Forces had certainly confirmed through their own intelligence networks that the Demon King's City had physically appeared near the Shattered Plains. Mobilizing their armies to deal with it was inevitable. The people in the city had known from the start that these fellows would come, but thanks to the existence of a secret spatial passage, no one was worried.
"Go make some preparations," Elizabeth ordered the technicians like a little adult. "Prepare to retreat into the other-dimensional space."
Hao Ren glanced back at the red sphere. It lay lifelessly in its groove, appearing utterly harmless. Whether or not it was a creature like the Firstborn, the thing was indeed dead. Vivian frowned. "We'll study it when we get back. Let's go outside and take a look first."
The group followed Elizabeth out of the power room. Before entering the circular corridor, Hao Ren looked back at the center of the hall. The red radiance was still pulsing rhythmically, providing the entire city with powerful levitation through a series of marvelous concentric-ring extractors. Beneath that radiance, there was undoubtedly another red sphere. Countless questions crowded Hao Ren's mind. What exactly was the Firstborn? How had it appeared in this world? Why did this "corpse" still contain such immense energy? Why had the sphere taken on this form?
Hao Ren shook his head, temporarily setting those questions aside, and hurried after the group as they left the arcane furnace.
They arrived at a spire on the Demon King's City's outer wall. Izax had already transformed into his