KRA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
Thirty-six interlocking Heavenly Script Dragon Locks shattered like glass ornaments as the twenty-mile-high purple-gold brass doors blew inward off their hinges.
Little Fifth led the charge in his ten-thousand-mile silver Star-Dragon form, pulling the Flying Courtyard Star-Cruiser and ten thousand Rank 8 Jade-Turtle Battle-Mechs behind him. With a triumphant roar, the silver fleet burst out of the underground magma tunnel and entered the inner sanctum of the Central Mega-Sun: the Core Furnace Chamber!
Even the ten thousand ancient Ring-Grandpas—who had seen countless wonders across five millennia—drew in a collective breath as the full scale of the underground cavern opened before their viewports.
They were floating inside a hollow spherical cavity three thousand miles across at the exact gravitational center of the star. Below the ship churned a bottomless ocean of white-hot liquid nuclear fire. Above the magma sea, suspended by nine hundred and ninety-nine colossal black siphon chains that pierced straight up through the star’s mantle toward the outer solar systems, hung the Golden-Finger Smelting Furnace!
It was not merely a cauldron or a forge. It was a continent-sized biomechanical monstrosity of dark brass, pulsating crystal veins, and black script-iron, stretching four hundred miles from east to west and rising two hundred miles high!
