「Three minutes ago.」
「At the relic excavation site, four thousand kilometers away.」
The star's light sank below the horizon, and darkness surged in like a tide. Pale white spotlights cast dense shadows across the gravel-strewn slopes.
Corpses in the uniforms of the Mechanical Order's Defender Army were scattered about—some were torn into pieces, others were bent backward and hung from pipelines. The acrid smell of gunpowder filled the air.
From the narrow corridors to the wide access roads, bodies were strewn everywhere. Blood soaked into the ground, staining the sand a dark crimson.
「A thousand meters underground.」
A vast cavern, hollowed out by engineering machinery, resembled a magnificent subterranean city.
Or rather, millions of years ago, this place had been the capital of some powerful Wizard Empire. Towering Wizard Towers, arranged by height, rose from the outskirts all the way to the city's very center.
