The instant the "Fate Hint" appeared on his retina, Zhou Heng thrust the "Sakas Emperor Sword (Holy Sword)" into the ground. Raising his right hand into a knife-hand, he drove it hard into his own chest. Soon, he seized a spherical object and pulled it out along with his heart. Looking at the heart streaming with black light in his hand, Zhou Heng knew that light came from the skill "Dark Abyss Corridor." Cradling the heart containing the "Fusion Core (Remnant)" in his palm, he raised it high.
In the far sky, a shaft of ultimate radiance slashed down, interrupting the "Dark Void Spirit." A soft exclamation of surprise followed, and then all time and space around Zhou Heng, including Zhou Heng himself, stopped. A mechanical palm of indeterminate size rose from below, lifting Zhou Heng and carrying him away from the scene at tremendous speed. The scenery vanished from his retina like fleeting clouds, and when everything settled, Zhou Heng found himself in a space so black it held almost no light. In the entire space, only the enormous figure holding Zhou Heng shone with splendor. Only now did Zhou Heng finally see what it looked like.
This was a Mechanical Lifeform whose height might have been measured in astronomical units or light-years. It was clad in immensely heavy armor, with dark-gold, supermassive shields, each the size of a Star Body, standing around it. The innermost ring consisted of six shields, orbiting the heavily armored Mechanical Lifeform in uniform circular motion. Outside that ring were a second, a third, a fourth, and an unknown number of further rings. Each ring had twice as many shields as the last: twelve in the second, twenty-four in the third...
"A Krosa-Type Fusion Core... such a distant... memory..." A deep, cold yet emotional