The explosion gradually subsided. Dust billowed into the sky, shrouding all of Mary Geoise.
"Cough, cough..."
A chorus of dry coughs rang out.
Momousagi got to her feet in a daze, but the Red Line beneath her was riddled with cracks. She stumbled and nearly fell.
The powerful shock wave and the Great Explosion had thrown off her balance, and she could not recover it right away.
"Even from this far away, we still got caught in it."
Momousagi was not the only one. Anita, the Chief Steward, and the others had been caught in it too.
Anita shook the dust from her head and stared speechlessly toward the center of the explosion.
"That was ridiculous. No, this distance isn't safe either. We need to fall back farther."
Anita did not need to tell them twice. Everyone caught in Werther's attack began to retreat.
Who knew what else the two might unleash? If the next attack was even stronger, they might not get a chance to run.
The others were in a sorry state, but they were far from the battlefield. At its center stood Werther.
A strong wind swept away the dust, revealing a terrifying sight at the center of the blast.
An enormous crater had been torn into the once-solid red stone.
It was at least a hundred meters deep and several hundred meters across. The red stone inside had crystallized from the heat. The air warped above it, showing just how hot it still was.
At the crater's edge, Werther slowly rose with Intent Blood in hand. The move had clearly taken a lot out of him.
"That lunatic. Wasn't he afraid he'd blow himself up?"
As a Marine Admiral, Momousagi had never felt so helpless. Usually the main force in a fight, this time she could