Based on N-4's account, it was not difficult to determine that this planet's eldest son had lost its mind after that bizarre meteor shower.
But could a mere meteor shower really have dealt with a mature eldest son so easily?
The robot girl mentioned that, near the end of the war that could be called the "turning point," the eldest son had opened up its crust and mantle, exposing its "core" to the outside. But it would be a grave mistake to assume that this had weakened its defenses. First, the eldest son had no core that could be called a "weak point." The so-called exposed core was merely an organ deep within its body. Those organs had countless backups, so even suffering damage would have been only a minor problem. Second, the eldest son's defenses did not depend entirely on its physical body. Its more powerful means of protection was its control over various force fields. Its tentacles could generate repulsive fields strong enough to withstand celestial impacts, protecting its body from strikes originating in outer space—just as the meteorites Izax had summoned over Beinz had been intercepted in midair. And back then, the one intercepting them had merely been an immature eldest son.
Compared with the eldest son's force-field defenses and tough physical constitution, a planetary crust was merely an insignificant layer of "additional armor." It made no difference whether it was there or not.
So had that meteor shower directly ignored the eldest son's repulsive force field—or, more precisely, effortlessly pierced through it and dealt a devastating blow to its Thinking Organ? Where in the world could there be such ridiculously powerful meteorites?
"Speaking of which, why did the eldest son open up its crust for no reason?" Nangong May, who was watching the spectacle from nearby,