At that moment, dark clouds blanketed Sumeru City, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling. In an instant, rain came pouring down with a force that seemed capable of toppling mountains and overturning seas.
Yet the people of Sumeru were not surprised by this strange change in the weather. Having lived in the rainforest for so long, they were quite used to it. After all, sudden thunderstorms like this happened hundreds of times a year, and during the peak thunderstorm season, they would experience several in a single day.
From their many years of experience, such thunderstorms were usually like a virgin's first time: hurried and brief, unable to last very long at all.
Sure enough, after barely more than ten minutes, the sky gradually cleared, and peace returned to Sumeru City.
Meanwhile, inside the God-Descension Workshop, the fully activated Gnosis was embedded in the very center of the mech. Under Scaramouche's control, its surging energy gradually began to draw inward.
As a mechanical puppet personally created by Ei and the prototype for the Raiden Shogun, Scaramouche was not merely a puppet meant to house a Gnosis. His potential strength was actually exceptionally high. After all, he was meant to protect Inazuma while Ei shut herself away in the Plane of Euthymia.
If Inazuma truly faced an invasion by a powerful enemy, such as a recurrence of the calamity five hundred years ago, combat strength merely on the level of the Adepti would be far from enough. Using the power of the Gnosis to bring him to the level of a god was Scaramouche's true purpose.
However, after creating Scaramouche, Ei inadvertently discovered that this puppet she had made would secretly weep while sleeping at night.
Such weakness made Ei realize that, as Inazuma's guardian, he did not actually need so