In the silence, all the commanding officers looked at one another, utterly bewildered.
They instinctively shook their heads.
Some even reflexively tried to argue, but when they pulled out their phones to confirm, they discovered that there was no response whatsoever from the hangar. Radio silence. The fury of the Heavenly Origin Law swept through the area, instantly tearing apart the illusion covering Hangar Zero. All that remained was a scene of devastation! Tire marks still lingered on the runway.
And at the very center of the hangar, the Vengeance Bomber and its pilot had already vanished without a trace!
Or rather, they had taken to the skies...
Pasarela's eyes instantly reddened as he demanded, "Why didn't the radar department report this?!"
The person in charge stood frozen in place, drenched in sweat, wanting to speak but unable to.
Radar?
That was assuming the radar could even pick it up, Eldest Brother!
Though the Vengeance Bomber had sat around as a display piece for years, everything from its design and equipment to its airframe coating represented the Empire's most cutting-edge technology. It even contained numerous Alchemical Creations, taking its stealth capabilities to the utmost limit. Forget radar—the whole point was that radar couldn't detect it and missiles couldn't lock onto it. Otherwise, what deterrence could it possibly provide?
"What about the control tower?!" Pasarela roared. "Are they dead too?"
But after cursing, he himself knew that this was too harsh on the control tower. First of all, the Deterrence Mechanism itself operated independently of the standard flight authorization procedures and was not under the control tower's jurisdiction. Even its runway was separately assigned.
At the same time, air command could now shirk responsibility as well.
Since the Deterrence Mechanism was not under their jurisdiction, in order to carry out the