The Sunfire Colossus's mighty fist came crashing down from the sky, wrapped in blazing radiance. Its terrifying force seemed capable of tearing the earth apart.
Though the ancient construct had been shut down for a thousand years, the power of faith still allowed it to unleash a force of destruction that surpassed the mortal realm. A power beyond the material world could only be resisted by a force of equal magnitude.
In the path of the ten-thousand-ton fist stood a hundred-meter-high black wall surrounding the Origin Holy City. The Sanghai warriors guarding the holy land shouted the Creator's name, trying to resist the steel giant that had turned against them through sheer force of belief.
It looked like a pointless sacrifice by a band of fanatics. After all, even the massive wall the Sanghai people had spent a thousand years building beyond the holy land seemed unlikely to withstand the Colossus's decisive blow. Yet the next moment, a miracle occurred.
Amid the guards' feverish battle cries, their voices hoarse with fervor, a massive energy matrix quietly appeared just as the Colossus's fist came down.
A force capable of crushing cities and destroying nations struck the immense hexagonal energy matrix, sending lightning-like ripples of friction across it. The shockwave formed by the clash of forces surged along the Colossus's fist and the fading streams of light from the matrix, then exploded.
The Colossus's attack failed. The guardians had bought themselves a few more seconds.
The fanatical guards cheering atop the wall stood in stark contrast to Berdinos, who sat aboard the departing Sunscarab in the air, silent.
The former once again felt that the Creator's might was invincible. The latter had expected all this.
He felt no resentment.
He merely raised his left hand again. As he swung the Staff of