Lynn and Zuo Zuo both jolted, but Alice and the others clearly could not hear the voice.
There was no telling its gender or where it came from. It was like a distant call rising from the deepest reaches of flesh and consciousness.
And almost at that same moment.
Lynn abruptly clutched his wildly pounding heart and turned toward the very center of the battlefield.
A shaft of red light shot into the sky, churning the black mist overhead.
At the center of the battlefield, the frenzied attacks of the God of Ten Thousand Machines and Sir Awen stopped almost simultaneously, and both shot back hundreds of meters.
"That's..."
Sir Awen suddenly raised his head, his gaze fixed on the red light bursting from the Mother Tree of Desire's main trunk.
The God of Ten Thousand Machines narrowed his eyes. Billowing mist poured from the corners of his enormous draconic maw.
"The Colossus!"
They all sensed that familiar, bone-chilling aura of flesh.
The Flesh Ascendant who, before falling all those years ago, had been the only one to take the Technological Civilization as its foundation and fuse countless trillions of living beings into a Colossus!
Was it about to awaken?!
Or had the Mother Tree of Desire deliberately triggered some restriction on that tower?
"It seems the time has come, Mother Tree."
The enormous eyeball stirring within the rift spoke in an utterly hoarse voice.
The Mother Tree of Desire stared fixedly toward the God of Ten Thousand Machines and Sir Awen. Cracks kept ringing out from her main trunk, while her enormous fleshy vines continued piercing and spreading across the silver-white tower.
The powerful fluctuations radiating from the entire Colossus Tower made even her feel an intense, mounting sense of danger.
Under her efforts to breach it, the