"..."
The Dragon Knight Commander tilted his head back, eyes wide as he stared fixedly at the steel giant standing at the far end of the town. His mouth hung wide open, fangs exposed, his pupils shrunk to pinpoints.
At that moment, his mind went blank for a long while.
It was not fear.
Nor was it panic.
It was more like... the absurd, surreal feeling of a greenskin's barely functional CPU brain about to burn out as it desperately tried to figure out: "What the fuck is this thing?"
Yes, surreal!
And fucking bullshit!
Just a few dozen seconds ago, he had still been assigning tasks, thinking about clearing out the remaining enemies, gathering loot, establishing defenses, occupying this Chaos Town, and planning its future.
He had even been thinking about how to use the town's resources to expand the team, upgrade their equipment, establish a real guild, and prepare to tackle their next target.
And yet, at precisely this moment, that thieving heaven—or rather, those damn game developers—had played a joke on him. At precisely this moment, the landmark building in the middle of town had fucking stood up?
Honestly, he had seen similar Warhammer novels and videos before. Back then, he had always thought settings like this were awesome. But now... when he found himself facing the same situation in person—and, crucially, as the enemy watching "the castle stand up"—the feeling was far from wonderful.
"I..."
"Fuck!"
As he muttered under his breath, the steel giant finally rose to its full height, steadied itself, and then began to move.
Krrrzz—!!
With a terrifying roar like steam-powered hydraulic pipes starting up, the steel mech giant's head—the section beneath what had once been a pointed roof, with two enormous glowing apertures—turned toward them at once.
Or rather, it turned