Demon King's City drifted through the boundless, chaotic darkness of space for a long time before finally reaching an area with physical entities. From the tower balcony, everyone saw shadows of various sizes gradually emerge from the gloom ahead. They were strange, oddly shaped fragments—and they rapidly grew larger in their field of vision. Hao Ren soon realized that every one of those fragments was far larger than he had imagined.
The largest one was almost the same size as Demon King's City!
Demon King's City began to slow down and cautiously drift among the enormous fragments. Strange objects nearly as large as mountains swept past the city, their rough, pitted surfaces covered in bizarre ridges. To Hao Ren, they looked like cross-sections formed when some enormous object had been forcibly torn apart. Nangong May abruptly rose from the water and stared in astonishment at the "floating island" drifting over the city. "Wow—"
Lily, who had been running wild all over the city, also noticed the strange objects in the sky. She immediately bounded back toward the tower, then dashed to Hao Ren's side in a few steps and waved her claws at the colossal objects overhead. "Awooo—what are these?"
A swarm of bats flapped onto the balcony. Vivian took shape from among them, frowning as she looked at the objects in the sky. "They feel like... wreckage?"
The more Hao Ren looked at the floating fragments, the more uneasy he became. It wasn't merely because they looked like some kind of wreckage. More importantly, he could see signs of artificial construction on them!
On some of the larger fragments, he saw straight grooves and smooth surfaces that clearly hadn't formed naturally. Other fragments even had things resembling broken pipes protruding from them. All the torn wreckage shared the same