(′~`●)
"Ugh, this wormhole is so uncomfortable! It's nothing like my own spatial portals~!"
(;′⌒`)
"But we finally made it!!"
?(???)??????
After enduring wave after wave of severe discomfort, with no sense of how much time had passed, Annie opened her eyes and realized they had already passed through the wormhole and emerged into this pitch-black expanse of outer space.
In the distance, a spacecraft that looked somewhat like one of the Heavenly Ones' ships, but differed in its details and seemed larger—more like a giant scepter, with a vast tract of land and a palace perched atop it—floated silently in place. It was the Sky Palace.
"Attack!"
"Take them down!"
"Keep going! Full assault!"
"Quickly!"
"Charge! Don't stop, everyone! Keep pushing forward, even if it costs us our lives!"
"Kill them!!"
By then, the five thousand Earth soldiers in black armor who had first passed through the wormhole, aboard their space landers, had already clashed in the silent void with the scum guarding the Sky Palace and their ship-shaped spacecraft.
Thanks to their genes and technological support from the angels and demons, their attacks were no longer futile as they had been before. At last, they could effectively wound or kill the scum, whose bodies were equivalent to first- or second-generation divine bodies.
But battles in space were merciless and silent. Aside from the shouts over the comms, the flashes of energy weapons firing, and the bursts of light as landers or scum spacecraft were seized, destroyed, and blown apart, they heard nothing at all.
"Bzzzt..."
"Qilin! Are you there?"
"I'm here!"
"Stay close! Coordinates 2020, 1026!"
"Don't fall behind!"
"Understood!"
"Annie and I are almost there!!"
"..."
Just as Annie sat behind Qilin, cocked the bolt of the large-caliber electromagnetic rifle in her hands with a click, and