The blue, peaceful sky, once covered in clouds, split open amid those rolling rumbles, like a glass dome shattered by a heavy hammer...
Countless cracks appeared across the blue canopy of the sky, before it shattered piece by piece and fell away...
The blue was gone.
The clouds vanished.
In their place was a pitch-black expanse as deep as a sea of stars.
That space was boundless, as though this Administrative Planet's entire atmosphere had been stripped away in an instant, exposing the true universe beyond, that vast sea of stars belonging to "Boundless Endless."
Then...
Something came walking out of that deep expanse.
It was a handsome man holding a Wine Gourd, staggering as he walked.
He swayed his way out of the depths of the sea of stars... like a drunken wanderer walking alone beneath the moon... even letting out a full-throated cry of "Here I come..."
His voice carried a swordsman's boldness and freedom, as though the entire sea of stars were a battlefield for him to roam.
But before anyone could marvel at such unrestrained freedom, a being even more imposing than the man holding the Wine Gourd appeared close behind him...
It was an enormous turtle...
On its shell, it carried a magnificent, majestic temple.
The temple gleamed with gold and jade, its eaves sweeping upward, ancient patterns flowing across every pillar.
The giant turtle followed the man with the Wine Gourd with steady strides, each step making the entire starry sky tremble slightly.
After that came a mechanical lifeform composed entirely of machinery.
It did not walk. It simply stood within the deep darkness of the sky, gliding past in a motionless posture.
Like a gigantic sculpture placed on a conveyor belt... it did not move a muscle... yet advanced at a constant speed.