No one had expected what happened next. Even Modi, who had plotted so carefully, looked stunned.
Watching from afar, Green felt as if he had wandered onto the wrong set. What the hell was this? Had Transformers crashed the scene?
The surface of the Arm of the Machine God, suspended beneath the Airship, cracked into fish-scale-like pieces. They shifted and reassembled... Soon it no longer resembled an arm, but a Mechanical Dragon with five heads.
"Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!"
In an instant, the five metal dragon heads attached to a single body let out deafening roars. Its enormous wings spread and snapped the chains, sending the Airship, already climbing at full power, surging upward. But then one head caught a chain in its jaws and yanked hard.
With a metallic creak, the Airship jerked to a halt, its frame groaning under the strain.
"Protect the Airship!" Modi shouted. He made no move himself, keeping his eyes on the Metal Dragon while guarding against the wounded Calamity-rank fighter from Sison Kingdom.
Before, Modi could afford to ignore the injured Dual-Sword Calamity. Now that something unexpected had happened, he had to account for every uncertainty.
The Dual-Sword Calamity looked just as bewildered. He had never imagined that the Arm of the Machine God would change like this after being released from its Seal. His thoughts raced. The Arm of the Machine God has come alive! Could the Mechanical God still be alive, only transformed into another state?
Whether the Mechanical God had truly fallen had long been a subject of debate.
Normally, when a Deity holding a Divine Office fell, any industry or nation tied to that office suffered a severe blow. Decline and chaos were inevitable, and recovery took a long time.
Yet after the battle in which the Mechanical