“PULL!”
As Pei Xuan’s golden signal flag swept down from the top of the Rank 7 Planetary Winch-Crane, twelve city-sized Star-Fortress thruster engines ignited at once!
ROOOOOOOOAR—!
Twelve pillars of blue-gold spirit flame blasted out of the rear exhaust vents, while across the four fifty-mile pulling tracks, five hundred thousand Frost-Giants, two million Iron-Rhinos, three million Sea-Beasts, and ten million Furnace-Blood warriors dug their heels and fins into the earth and heaved with all their might!
“HEAVE—HO!” Frost-Giant King Gu Shan bellowed, his thirty-foot muscles swelling like granite boulders under his floral shorts as he leaned forward at a forty-five-degree angle.
“MOOOOO—ROAR!” Two million Iron-Rhinos lowered their armored horns and charged down the heated black-stone highway, their hooves striking sparks that lit up the Southern track like a river of stars.
CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!
The four mountainous capstan drums turned. The one hundred golden Star-Steel chains plunging fifty miles down into the center of the earth stretched taut, humming with a deep musical note that vibrated in the teeth of every living creature within a hundred miles.
