High in the stratosphere above the Central Continent, the entire three-mile hull of the Upper-Realm Punitive Warship shuddered with a deafening groan of grinding gears.
Beneath the iron keel of the massive battleship, a forty-yard-wide ventral hatch slid open.
Out of the warship’s dark belly protruded a colossal cylindrical cannon barrel forged from blackened meteoric star-iron and lined with forty thousand compressed blood-spirit cores—the [Rank 7 Late Upper-Realm Planet-Cracking Main Cannon]!
“Drain all secondary engines! Divert eighty percent of the warship’s Blood-Soul Reactor straight into the main cannon muzzle!” Squad Leader Heaven-Eraser screamed on the bridge, his pupil-less white eyes bloodshot with terror as.
He yanked the emergency rudder lever to spin the warship toward the spatial rift while slamming the cannon’s firing switch.
“Blow up the entire Central Continent to buy us three seconds to escape into the rift! FIRE!!”
Beside the helm console, toothless Envoy Xue Sha scrambled to his feet and helped slam the auxiliary power levers forward with both mud-caked hands!
“Fire! Fire everything we have!” Xue Sha shrieked in a frenzy of panic and spite.
