Uto City · Surface World.
Execution countdown: [1:29:31]
The situation on the battlefield grew worse and worse.
Dorse's expression grew increasingly agitated as he paced back and forth on the execution platform.
He was not a Top-Level Train Conductor. In fact, he was not a Train Conductor at all.
He was merely the owner of the War Card, chosen by Heinz from among many children.
After years of nurturing him, they had only needed to wait until Fan Huo collected the ninth card, then lure him to Uto City.
According to the plan, all they needed to do was defend.
With the abilities of twelve Top-Level Train Conductors, buying five hours for the execution platform should have been easy, no matter how they looked at it.
But the current situation was nothing like what they had anticipated.
The Twelve Fortunes were already showing signs of defeat. Someone had even had their head blown apart by that woman named Wu Yuanshan and fled the battlefield.
Of the Gods summoned later, only the fishman currently being dissolved in the ritual remained.
The Illusion Birdman and the Titan Elephant had both been dealt with.
Those C-Rank Gods could barely make any waves.
Even the monster army numbering in the tens of millions would only last so long against Stasia, Lin You, and that Altos's demonic power that could resurrect monsters.
Most importantly.
That terrifying woman named Monrojina had resumed dismantling the execution platform.
The ritual upon it was collapsing because of her.
Where, exactly, had things begun to go wrong?
Dorse remembered the sight of that human named Altos slaying Heinz's doppelganger last night.
And today, it was also because of that human.
Their supposedly sealed-off world had inexplicably become a Platform World subject to the system's interference.
Altos...
It was all because