In that instant, beneath the entanglement of countless cables, Raymond's body rapidly withered away.
The burly giant instantly became a shriveled, emaciated corpse, yet beneath his ribcage, his heart pounded madly, unleashing a deep echo unlike anything before.
Countless cables wrapped around the steel skeleton like bandages, tugging it into the core of the Solar Ship.
The engine hatch, like an iron coffin, burst open and swallowed him whole.
Flesh and muscle rapidly spread across the steel from within, and the Red Dragon's roar resounded across the wilderness and the fortress, while an invisible tide engulfed them both.
A perfect circle ten kilometers in diameter, a precise and flawless mathematical miracle.
Within the circle covered by the Solar Ship, every living thing wailed beneath the heartbeat. Blood rapidly seeped from their mouths and noses, dragging their souls along with it...
The invisible waves contracted inward. Upon the walls, countless slave laborers and defenders fell like rain, their wailing souls merging into the storm and plunging into the engine, where they were then brewed within the cannon barrel.
After three transformations of Source Matter, those solidified souls had completely become pure Source Matter within the furnace, radiating sacred brilliance.
It burst outward!
Then endless flying sand rushed head-on.
It was as though, in an instant, everything had arrived in that sun-blazing land beside the Nile River.
There was no thunderous boom, only Tide sound and wailing rising from the yellow sand rushing toward them. A mournful flute melody spread from distant reeds.
The river's murmur rang in everyone's ears.
Beneath the reflection of that phantom sun wheel that had appeared from nowhere, Isis's tears flowed here, within hell.
The God of Compassion's tears washed away everything.
A streak of gray-black spread straight ahead. Wherever it passed, everything rapidly collapsed into gray-black