Bai Heng watched as the Molten Knight named "Seaborn" fully revived.
Yet the people from the Erudition Society still stood frozen in place.
"What are you standing around for?!"
The words nearly slipped out of Bai Heng's mouth, but he immediately realized what was happening.
The mental fluctuations that had left him dazed earlier might have spread to the others.
Their consciousness sank into the deep sea, answering Its call.
A deafening, dizzying boom suddenly erupted within the massive crater, and a blood mist rose.
The left arm of one Erudition Society mech soldier instantly exploded. Its metal components turned to dust, vanishing together with flesh and blood.
The belated pain made his pupils contract before he let out a heart-rending scream and staggered into the mech soldier beside him.
Only then did the other mech soldiers around them react.
But what could they do? At such close range, could they even dodge?
This was the closest they had ever come to death. It had arrived too quickly, leaving them almost no chance to choose.
No matter how sophisticated the Interastral Peace Corporation's mech soldiers were, before biotechnology capable of resisting the Swarm Disaster, they were as fragile as a sheet of thin paper.
Just as Allen Jones, the chief scholar of the Erudition Society's Armed Archaeology School, raised his mechanical arm and activated the defense system of his mech armor, preparing to block Seaborn's next strike and buy some time—
He suddenly sensed several diamond-shaped particles appearing beside him.
Before he could figure out what they were, another stream of data blurred his consciousness.
When he came to, they had already fallen at the edge of the massive crater, at a safe distance from the Molten Knight Seaborn.
The instant the Erudition Society's archaeological mech soldiers vanished, the meteor