Rumble—!
The Red Line was still splitting apart, and the cracks were spreading faster and faster.
Beneath Pangaea Castle, transport tunnels, laboratory levels, and underground cavities that had existed for centuries collapsed one after another.
Without support, massive strata of rock crashed down on one another, as though the bones of the entire mountain were snapping apart inside it, inch by inch.
Then the seawater found a way in.
Boom—!
The first column of water erupted thousands of meters into the sky from deep within the rift. Before it could fall, a second burst out.
Seawater filled the sky like an upside-down rainstorm, crashing down on Mary Geoise.
The entire Holy Land seemed to sit atop a cracked, colossal dam that could collapse at any moment.
Vegapunk stared fixedly at the structural diagram, his eyes bloodshot.
"Don't seal it!"
Beside him, a technician had been about to press the emergency lockdown button. His hand froze.
"Huh?"
"You can't seal it!" Vegapunk roared. "The underground pressure is completely out of control! Block this opening, and the seawater will just find another! No one will know where it'll burst out next!"
He slammed a hand onto the map.
"We have to let it out! Give it somewhere to go!"
High in the sky, Rock heard him.
The enormous Yinglong circled above the rift, his draconic eyes lowered.
[Nine Heavens Thunder Marsh] spread rapidly along the seawater to either side. Rather than trying to hold back the sea head-on, he slowly spread his claws apart.
Two walls of water surged up from the sea with a thunderous roar.
"Four Seas Return!"
Boom—!
The seawater that had been squeezing toward the central fissure suddenly split into separate streams, draining outward through the underground passages Rock had forced open.
Several torrents veered clear of one