The fourth shot!
The fifth shot!
Time itself seemed to stop flowing at that moment.
At last, under the full-force bombardment of the fifth shot, that azure particle beam pierced the strata, tore through the surface, and burst into dazzling sparks high in the sky.
The passage to the surface was open!
But beneath her feet...
That tremendous rumbling was drawing closer and closer, as though it would burst through the ground at any moment.
But this was enough!
The searing particle beam had bored through the strata, melting the sand and stone inside into flowing glass. As it rapidly solidified, it formed a broad passage to survival.
At last.
She turned to look at the mechanical humanoid into which she had uploaded the data, the one holding Lynn's soul. In that moment, a rare trace of tenderness seemed to enter her eyes.
"Win this battle for us."
"Please..."
At that moment.
She exhausted the mechanical humanoid's last reserves of energy, hurling the digital storage device and upload chip housing Lynn's soul into the passage overhead.
His departure left one final afterimage in her eyes.
She opened her mouth as though she wanted to say something.
But in the next instant.
The enormous mechanical dragon head's gaping maw broke through the strata, swallowing everything in a thunderous collapse.
Inside the passage leading to the surface.
The chip hurtled toward the surface like a bullet.
But the damage caused by atomic revolution was unmistakable. The chip kept wearing down, large pieces peeling away from it. Sometimes, the arrival of hope was followed by an endless tide of despair.
The moment the chip shot out of the ground like a bullet.
Beyond the waves of chaos covering the surface, the last remaining sliver of Lynn's avatar, who was with Light