"Oh, God! What the hell was that?!"
"The sandstorm is coming! Run!"
Terrified screams tore through the sky. Tourists enjoying their vacation at the nearby oasis resort instantly went pale as death.
A blinding white light, sharp as a sword, split the heavens. The flash vanished in an instant, followed by a deafening roar.
The ground shook violently. Savage shockwaves swept up walls of sand dozens of meters high, bearing down on the crowd like the sky itself was collapsing.
The tourists fled in panic, yet the howling sandstorm still swallowed them. In the blink of an eye, they were buried beneath the heavy yellow sand.
When the world returned to stillness, the vacation oasis beside them had vanished.
As far as the eye could see, there was only an endless sea of golden sand.
Figures struggled out from between the dunes one after another. People spat sand from their mouths, their faces filled with the terror and daze of those who had survived a calamity.
Soon.
The disturbance here drew the attention of Blue Star's higher-ups, as well as the many pseudo-humans lurking within human society.
They all rushed toward the area.
Besides that.
The fluctuations from this place spread outward.
At an unimaginable speed, they appeared throughout the entire Solar System.
Like a stone tossed into a tranquil lake.
Ripples of faint yet tangible energy spread continuously, invisible to the naked eye.
Saturn.
Within its atmosphere, nearly a thousand kilometers thick, storms raged as air currents twisted and churned like furious giant pythons.
This gaseous giant had no solid surface, only an abyss composed of endless hydrogen and helium.
Yet at this moment, deep within it, amid the chaos near its core.
A slender silver-white figure slowly emerged.
It was ten thousand meters long, its entire