Fire Above the Abyss

The lunar surface, Kepler Valley Entrance, Ascension Zone.

Huai Shi tugged on the leash, standing beside Broken Dog and looking around curiously, wondering where their booked flight was.

Then he saw a silent disciple behind Garand Weng step forward, pull a slender Bone-white Horn from his robes, and actually lift his visor beneath the protection. Without even taking a breath, he bit down on the mouthpiece, puffed out his cheeks, and blew with all his might.

What was this?

A Cosmic Concert?

Huai Shi stared blankly, but then he actually heard a vast, rumbling echo in the vacuum.

It was not a frequency human ears could hear. Only with the enhancement of extreme intent could one perceive the distant echo, like Whale Song.

It traveled through the vacuum.

It blew into the distance.

Then, above lunar orbit, an enormous shadow slowly descended. Under the lights of the landing field, a black dot rapidly expanded until its immense body emerged.

Its long tail churned Source Matter waves, while azure light rippled outward like water, illuminating its form.

That distinctive enormous head, that long body, and that exaggerated size comparable to a warship all made Huai Shi want to scratch his head.

That was... a sperm whale?

A sperm whale lively and kicking in space, swimming through the vacuum...

No way, was this really that fantastical?!

He had completely forgotten that he was holding onto something even more fantastical, and the thing in his hand was staring fixedly at the sperm whale, already licking its lips in anticipation.

Something it had never eaten before...

Was it tasty?

"Friend, first time seeing one?"

A figure leaned over beside Huai Shi and privately messaged him over the channel. "That's an alchemical organism modified by the Stone Kiln Society, recreated from the Offspring of Leviathan.