Under the captain's authority, the team members all fell silent.
Only the smiles on their faces grew increasingly bitter.
Rugg felt around in his pocket and found a flattened cigarette pack, but after searching for a long while, he still could not find a lighter. Irritably crushing the pack into a ball, he was about to say something when a shrill howl exploded from above the Sky Dome!
Amid earthshaking thunder, a mountain-sized giant insect emerged from the sand and soil, opened its jaws, rose into the air, and bit a four-winged beast hundreds of meters long into pieces.
Blood rained down. Chunks of flesh fell, dyeing the black earth and mountains a vivid dark green once more. A fragment resembling an eyeball crashed down before the crevice, making everyone in the vehicle hold their breath, their faces deathly pale.
They had fled blindly all the way here.
They had willingly jumped into the mire.
The mountains stretching to the end of the Sky Dome, everything visible before them, were not a beautiful, free wilderness, but a dwelling place for monsters.
The Chastity Circle—the colossal beast pen Beatific Land used to raise countless aberrant monstrosities!
Yet even so, the Purifiers pursuing them from behind had not given up.
Above the Sky Dome, amid clouds pale as bones, rings of light descended one after another, endlessly circling.
The winged Predator Angels had nearly turned every inch of land inside out, keeping every trace under surveillance. Even when they saw the deliberately fabricated tire tracks, they did not waver. They merely sent a message coldly before continuing their search.
Unlike the mass-produced models at the lower levels, every Predator Angel in the Heaven of Sacrifice was a weapon of war that had sacrificed itself to Beatific Land more than ten times through