Preparing for War

On the vast plain, a Teleportation Gate stood upon the horizon like the gates of heaven, like a deep, shadowy maw.

Thousands of Goblin engineers rode flying Magic Armor along its frame, carrying out the final adjustments on this colossal structure.

After ten years of construction, the Teleportation Gate in the Four-Eyed World had finally reached its final moment.

Once the adjustments were complete, the Goblin engineers reported to headquarters that it was ready to be activated.

"Headquarters has received the report. The Teleportation Gate will activate in three minutes. All personnel, evacuate immediately to the underground shelters."

Not far from the Teleportation Gate, a massive black tower rose from the plain, utterly out of place amid its surroundings. At the top of the tower, Richard, Ulysses, Avery, and the Order Bureau's upper ranks had all gathered. At that moment, they stared at the enormous structure dozens of kilometers away.

"Even though I watched this thing being built piece by piece, I still find it hard to believe it was made by people."

Avery looked at the giant Teleportation Gate and sighed from the bottom of his heart. As the director of the Order Bureau, it was not as though he had never seen advanced technology. Back when it had still been the Control Bureau, he had controlled a great number of ancient legacies, including no small number of Precursor Relics.

Yet before this gate, reverence still rose within him.

Because this gate had been built bit by bit by a group of mortals below Level Four.

Such a monumental feat had come from the hands of mortals. It represented a vast generational gap between two races, one like an impassable heavenly chasm.

"But it was made by people." Richard looked at Avery and handed him a button. "I didn't