At the edge of the Capital Planet's atmosphere, the Observation Platform floated silently, just like the distant space stations. From the building, stone steps led up past the pavilion to a cliff. A large tree stood at its edge, bearing a white fruit.
The cliff was fake, and so was the fruit. It was Big One, sleeping on a branch.
Zhao Layue sat at the edge of the cliff, both feet dangling in the air, silently watching the planet below.
She was watching the Hot Spring amid those mountains. She had watched for many days without blinking or changing her posture.
The mountains, the Hot Spring, and the girl in a yukata beside it had not changed at all either.
Until a moment earlier, when the clouds above the grassland had gradually gathered, and space had visibly undergone some kind of distortion. Countless masses of snow and cloud settled on the sphere's surface, bound by an invisible force, slowly flowing along its curves. From outer space, it looked like a snowball.
That was the work of the Gravitational Force Field Device.
Over the preceding days, the girl in a yukata beside the Hot Spring had never paid her any attention, letting her watch as she pleased. Why had she suddenly activated the gravitational force field now? A gravitational force field not only blocked sight, but also provided a near-perfect defense that was extremely difficult to break through...
"Do it," Zhao Layue suddenly said.
A vivid red streak of Sword Light lit up the cliff terrace, the tree, and this region of the atmosphere.
Like the setting sun.
Hundreds of strands of exceptionally pure Sword Intent drifted from her sleeves with sharp hisses.
Ran Handong, Zhong Lizi, and Jiang Yuxia were astonished. *Are you going to attack the gravitational force field?