With Haken and several players who had healing abilities hard at work, most of the wounded on Steam Island received treatment and soon regained their fighting strength. After gulping down a few bottles of recovery potions they had brought along, they were full of life again.
At the same time, all the players felt less of a falling sensation, because Steam Island was accelerating upward, preparing to assume its Iron Giant God form and fight this Fang Leviathan.
After it surfaced, the various weapons hidden in the water emerged as well. Only now did Steam Island reveal its true form to the public for the first time, as the footage was also being broadcast live in the island's shelters-filmed throughout by the "Bird-Beating Man" robot.
Shrouded in white fog, the enormous Iron Giant God's appearance was quite a morale booster. Steam Island had not been completely crippled by a single, simple blow, but had instead displayed tremendous fighting strength.
Large numbers of robots streamed out of the Iron Giant God's surface and fought the tooth beasts emerging from the sea, holding their own for the moment. Their numbers were inexhaustible, because the Finite Miracle Factory was running at full capacity.
A black dot was also visible. Magnified, it proved to be a mechanical head roughly five meters in diameter, descending toward the top of the Iron Giant God's head. Compared to the Iron Giant God, however, it was rather too small. It was none other than Yu Dawei, who intended to "form the head."
His No. 7 combat body had been developed specifically to control the Iron Giant God, and now it was officially being put into use!
"Iron Giant God, activate!"
With that loud, highly ceremonial shout, the Iron Giant God officially started up. A fissure suddenly opened in