That familiar cry...
Amid the roar that shook even the soul, Raymond forgot to hold down the writhing tentacles beneath his hands and asked in disbelief:
"It actually moved?"
But when the earth-shaking thunder subsided, there was no further response amid the dead silence.
Only the wail of something breaking apart remained.
From atop the Solar Ship...
When the brief favor of a miracle hurriedly departed, only cruel reality remained.
No matter how Raymond shouted and yelled, nothing changed.
Beneath the entangling limbs of the Horn of Annihilation, cracks rapidly spread across the Solar Ship's hull one after another, and the sound of shattering never ceased.
The gigantic beast, burned into charred rot, began to squirm again. It bared its teeth, slowly opened its enormous jaws, and bit toward the bow!
But before that, its crimson compound eyes froze for an instant.
In the darkness beneath the ruptured hull, packed with countless mechanical structures, it saw... a gigantic vertical pupil, like an illusion!
In that instant, the Solar Ship exploded apart!
From beneath that battered, hole-riddled shell, the grievously damaged Steel Dragon unfurled its crimson wings and burst from its cocoon!
Its wildly spinning tracks flipped and contracted. The cracked deck unfolded, the collapsed cabins reassembled amid the churning motion, and with the engines howling, countless arcs of electricity erupted forth, shaping a brand-new form and appearance.
As though filled with boundless Brilliant Light, the giant vessel that bore the sun's course transformed into an undeniable beast of iron and bit back at the enemy so close at hand!
As its maw opened, countless chainsaw-like modules sprang from within. Sparks flew, its jaws abruptly snapped shut, and blood gushed forth like a waterfall.
The Horn of Annihilation roared again, but this time it was no longer a terrifying omen of