It was as if some terrifying behemoth had awakened beneath the earth. A small earthquake erupted from beneath the factory, spreading outward. As the ground shook, everyone staggered unsteadily.
They all stopped fighting and stared into the factory in alarm!
Closest to the epicenter, Serica leaped backward as the ground crumbled and trembled. After steadying herself, she looked with shaken eyes at where she had just been standing.
It had become a massive Mechanical Well, faintly glowing red and so deep that its bottom could not be seen!
This was...!
"Rest assured, no one will know what happened here tonight!"
At the instant the Mechanical Well activated, Francis shouted strangely into the biting night wind. He raised a launcher in his hand and aimed it at the night sky.
The moment he pulled the trigger—
A spherical device rose high into the Night Sky. After hovering and activating, it unfolded a dark, flowing barrier that blocked outside detection!
Large Shadow Shielding Device!?
Seeing that he had even brought out something like this, she completely understood that he intended to eliminate all of them here without letting any information leak out.
"Now then, let tonight's final carnival begin."
Then, the instant she heard his strange, feverish proclamation—joyful yet sickening—
Serica's eyes widened as she saw grotesque black machines, like monstrous creatures, swarm out of the Mechanical Well in dense hordes!
Some moved on calibration devices used as legs, while others had biting weapons mounted on their backs. They completely defied all logic, as though countless weapons had been randomly pieced together.
Among the hundreds of black machines already pouring out of the Mechanical Well, no two had exactly the same appearance.
The only thing they shared was the single red eye glowing at their central cores!
Bang—!
The instant she saw