The Abandoned Sarcophagus

Five days later, Bai Ye appeared on the Northwest Icefield within Ursus territory.

He found Chernobog's Core City, abandoned here.

Yes, abandoned—or rather, forcibly "forgotten."

Someone had secretly dealt with the matter, abandoning the entire Core City on the vast, harshly cold Ursus Northwestern Icefield.

It did not seem uncommon for mobile cities to be abandoned on the Northwest Icefield. After Catastrophes ravaged the land, too many mobile cities lacking supplies had been left here.

This was a Catastrophe.

And there were man-made disasters as well.

During the Great Rebellion, nobles were slaughtered in droves, core equipment was hauled away, and not a single resident remained. The buildings and city blocks left behind stood alone amid the endless northern snowfields.

Some had been there for more than a decade.

Humans were good at creating, but they were equally good at destroying. As enduring as the history of creation was, so too was the history of destruction.

If not for Eagle Eye, even Bai Ye would have struggled to find Chernobog's Core City, abandoned at the foot of the icefield mountains.

Though it was tiny compared to the icefield, when Bai Ye stood before the city blocks, he could still recall how he and Rhodes Island's squad had boarded this colossal thing.

Back then, it had still been speeding forward, seemingly unstoppable.

Now, the Core City sitting motionless in place was like a corpse—something lifeless, something dead.

Filled with emotion, Bai Ye stepped onto Chernobog's Core City.

The entire city had become an empty shell. Every resource that still had any use had long since been stripped away.

Yet the warship-shaped Core City was still easy to recognize, especially its towering command tower, which remained vivid in Bai Ye's memory.

But this time, Bai Ye's destination was not that command tower,