In less than a minute, the Solar Ship's volume had ballooned by more than double, as if inflated. Countless armor plates were violently ejected and torn apart by the brutal reconfiguration.
The waves of the Styx vanished, rising from the inner layers to completely isolate the inside from the outside and lock the infiltrators within.
Aside from the temporary battlefield opened at the center, compartment after compartment rose from their tracks and rotated outward, like a twisting Rubik's Cube.
To save space, vast amounts of materials and supplies spewed out like a flood. Dormitories, cafeterias, storage bays, maintenance rooms, and other compartments deemed insufficiently important had already been pushed to the outermost layer, forcibly enduring the lightning, fire, and impacts from the Clouds of Calamity.
Like sandcastles rapidly collapsing in a downpour.
They disintegrated, crumbled, and became ragged wreckage.
Yet beneath that devastating damage, immense streams of light still raced through the conduits like boiling blood, circulating with searing heat under the engines' pumping.
A bloodshot eye opened beneath the armor and stared at the ruler who had walked into the trap.
"Fire!"
Isis's Tear, charged to its limit, fired fiercely from within the hull.
The Red Dragon's furious roar rose through layers of steel. Terrifying heat spread with the massive quantities of vaporized coolant. The entire bridge shook violently before being struck by a meteor falling from above, collapsing and shattering, exposed to the Depths.
Blazing Brilliant Light burst outward from within the Solar Ship, piercing the darkness, crossing an immense distance, and vanishing from sight.
Killing Darkness's crazed howls gradually faded amid the burning torrent of light.
At the cost of instantly burning through more than forty percent of the Original Sin Legion's Source Matter reserves, they had delivered a funerary blow to the invading ruler from within