Groups of Autonomous Mechanical Units installed hundreds of antigravity devices all over the black warship, preparing to lift it off the seafloor. The warship was much smaller than the Space Fortress they had dragged back from Izax's homeworld, and its structure was covered in protrusions suitable for mounting attachments, so the entire installation process went swiftly. Before long, all the antigravity devices were in place. Then specks of light began to shimmer across the black warship's surface. It trembled faintly and rose from the seabed, as though it had just awakened from death.
Giant Turtle Rock Platform dragged the enormous object upward, accelerating as it climbed. A small spacecraft only a few hundred meters long tugging along a metal monster more than ten kilometers in length looked rather bizarre, but the process itself was not difficult. The antigravity devices were doing the heavy lifting; the towing vessel only needed to guide its course.
Under the tow, the black warship quickly broke away from the deep sea and shot toward the surface. Meanwhile, Hao Ren and Izax had already piloted the engineering craft to the other end of the ruins of Ivhaduran. They met up with Shaqila and Soma along the way, then followed the tracking signal from the communicator to the place where the Siren Queen had sent out her call.
A faint blue light radiated from the engineering craft, anchoring it in the seawater. The currents in the vicinity were turbulent, and powerful energy-field interference filled the area. They had clearly approached the place where the world was most severely distorted. Hao Ren climbed out of the machine and looked around. Sure enough, a gigantic vortex-shaped phantom existed not far ahead. Though it was only an illusion, its presence was astonishingly powerful.
But there was no sign of the