"I have indeed never seen the outsiders' power for myself." Cocolia looked at the three members of the Astral Express Crew. "But I doubt a few people who rummage through trash cans everywhere and were forced to flee from the Silvermane Guards could be all that strong."
"Hey, who rummaged through trash cans?" Stelle shouted. "Watch what you say! I'll sue you for slander! Go ask around the Underworld if you've got the guts. How many trash cans were rummaged through? I, the Galaxy Bat Hero, would never do anything so disgraceful!"
March 7th glanced at Stelle, then at Dan Heng, and said:
"Teacher Dan Heng, if you'd used your hidden strength back then, wouldn't we have avoided all this trouble?"
Dan Heng fell silent at her words.
Cocolia sneered just then:
"I'm very curious about your strength. Show me, then. How will you handle the Architects' ancient machine?"
As she spoke, she raised the ice-blue lance in her hand and shouted:
"Without destroying the old, we cannot establish the new.
"As the Supreme Guardian, I command you to rise!
"Engine of Creation!"
The earth began to shake. Ice and snow tumbled down all around them, and gears clanked as an enormous robot revealed itself amid the swirling snowstorm.
It was a steel colossus, hundreds of meters tall!
The red lights in its eyes turned toward the group, gleaming dangerously.
March 7th couldn't help exclaiming:
"Whoa, that's at least tens of thousands of Svarogs put together!"
Svarog turned to look at March 7th without saying a word.
Then Natasha asked Svarog:
"Where did this big thing come from? How do we deal with it?"
"Jarilo-VI once had many machines like this," Svarog said evenly. "This one only obeys the Supreme Guardian's commands."
At that moment, Cocolia issued her order:
"**Engine