"What... what happened...!?"
"What's going on!?"
"An earthquake!?"
"Idiot! How could a Floating City possibly have earthquakes!?"
"Then what on earth is happening!?"
The spectators in the stands, who still had no idea what was happening, gradually grew uneasy and panicked.
Even Kanata, Chloe, Yuri, and Mina seemed to have sensed something. The four of them held their breath and gathered together.
As for Anneroj in the VIP viewing area, her expression kept changing until she finally could not sit still any longer.
"You three, get ready! Mobilize every Aerial Knight that 'Vivel' can deploy...!"
Anneroj shouted at Emily, Chris, and Ripa.
"Your Holiness...!?"
"What exactly happened?"
"Is that Jess's true form?"
Ripa, Emily, and Chris were caught completely off guard.
Only Anneroj seemed to understand what was about to happen, and she gritted her teeth in fury.
"Jess Vigert, that bastard, is abandoning all his previous plans and launching the decisive battle! He's going to settle things with humanity once and for all!"
Anneroj had realized this much.
"What?"
Emily, Chris, and Ripa were instantly shaken.
But it was a fact.
"Jess is worried that if he gives Rorerei enough time, she'll create a large number of small High-Grade Mana Furnaces and use them to produce an army of High-Grade Mana users. That would pose an unimaginable threat to the Demon Scarabs."
Anneroj spoke with extreme resentment.
"So he's grown desperate. He can no longer subjugate humanity at his leisure. On top of that, the proxy war of the 'Aerial Combat Martial Arts Festival' was completely ruined by Rorerei. He's made up his mind to launch the final all-out battle and use violence to rule humanity completely!"
Perhaps Jess had already begun preparing for the possibility after Luo Zhen summoned a dragon horde on the Ninth Artificial Sky Island