Penny was organizing the evacuation of the captured humans aboveground when Green suddenly issued an urgent order. She immediately realized something unexpected must have happened. Without wasting time asking why, she carried it out to the letter.
With the new order, the fairly orderly evacuation turned into a frantic rush. People screamed for their parents, and chaos broke out everywhere.
But Penny could not worry about that. Green's order had been stern enough to make the urgency clear. Anyone who caused trouble or dragged their feet would be dealt with by force.
Green had said to take whoever they could and leave the rest, but Penny was less lenient. Under the guns and blades of the Undead Troops and Retainer Army, even the elderly, the weak, the women, and the children scrambled out of the Human City-State.
Even then, those people feared and resented the terrifying Skeleton Soldiers who had driven them out. Secretly, they envied the clever ones who had hidden in the city and escaped the search.
But just half an hour later, a dazzling light burst from the inner city of the Human City-State.
At the feet of the Titan Colossus, a blazing fireball rose. In the blink of an eye, it swallowed the colossus, which stood dozens of meters tall, then climbed slowly into the sky and formed a vast black-and-red mushroom cloud.
Everyone stared, dumbfounded. Moments ago, they had been cursing the Undead and foreign troops that had forced them out, secretly envying those who had remained hidden in the city...
Now they suddenly realized that they were the lucky ones.
Under Penny's strict orders and the pressure of the Undead Troops and Retainer Army, they had traveled nearly ten kilometers from the Human City-State.
Even so, the shock wave from the inner city was