All of Dark Night City had sprung into action.
Throughout the night, beneath the glow of the Soul Lamps, powerful Night Doctors stationed elsewhere were recalled one after another, then dispatched again in organized units, disappearing into the darkness of the night world.
The High Tower at the very center of Dark Night City, which symbolized their great Matriarch, shone around the clock, illuminating the sky above the entire city for almost the whole night. The streets were filled with Beaked Night Doctors hurrying back and forth, each seemingly bearing an intense, grim resolve.
Everyone could feel it.
In the space of a single night, all of Dark Night City had taken on the air of an approaching storm, like the calm before it broke.
And in the fifth hour after Eve sensed the Flesh Dominator's hiding place, the intelligence agencies that had closely monitored the Mechanical Church throughout the past several months sent another crucial report: the other side was also making major moves.
It was as though that accidental contact Eve had made...
Had already set off a chain reaction.
Because the sensing worked both ways.
The moment Lynn and the others learned the Flesh Dominator's coordinates, the Flesh Dominator had evidently also realized that his location had been exposed.
"Several Mechanical Church bases entered concealment mode two hours ago. At least twenty-one hives under our surveillance also vanished into the black mist several hours ago. We've now lost track of the Mechanical Church's movements. They've hidden themselves."
"We also investigated the Mechanical Church's main base as soon as we received our orders. There's bad news: the enormous industrial base extending deep underground beneath their main base was recently confirmed to be a decoy. The Mechanical Church's entire core industrial complex has vanished."
"For the Seven Gods to