Exploring the Shattered Star Sea

Sea Origin Calendar, Year 201. Within the known Material World, between the eastern and western Storm Belts, lay the last virgin land yet unconquered by humanity—the Shattered Star Sea.

Three enormous spindle-shaped shadows bearing the Sark Empire's "Galloping Cavalry Saber" military flag swept across the sky, scattering countless black specks of death over a group of large lizards clad in steel-like scales and walking upright on their hind legs.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Shrapnel flew and flames soared. The lizards' hard scales, sharp claws, and fangs were utterly useless before these terrifying war machines.

In an instant, they suffered devastating casualties.

After the air raid came the forceful advance of the ground troops in skirmish formation.

At this moment, aside from the short flintlock muskets at their waists for emergencies, the soldiers' primary weapons had been replaced by High-Pressure Power Guns.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

In rapid, continuous fire, deadly bullets burst blood-red flowers among the now greatly thinned lizard swarm.

Hiss—!

An extraordinary person clad head to toe in steel armor strode at the very front of the formation. Steam erupted from the Power Hammer in his hand, converting blazing heat into surging kinetic energy as he smashed it viciously onto the head of a large lizard that had slipped through the net.

Its skull and brains exploded on the spot!

Among the extraordinary forces beside him were ordinary knights who followed tradition, wielding Extraordinary Weapons and swordsmanship.

But there were even more Mechanical Knights swinging Power Axes, Power Hammers, Chainsaw Swords, and other vicious weapons. With specialized powered weapons, they could unleash force far beyond that of the human body, even surpassing physical-type Peak Second-Order extraordinary persons.

Boom...

Yet the most eye-catching members of the exploration force were not them, but two Alchemy Giants more than two stories tall.