Moment of Respite

"Atlas, what are you doing?!!" Emery shouted,

The response that Atlas gave utterly dumbfounded him. Alas, before he could do anything about it, the half-machine acolyte had already turned around and dashed through the Abyss creatures into one of the cave tunnels.

Emery clenched his fists as he quickly realized what Atlas was trying to do. He wanted to stop him, but seeing the group of survivors behind him, he eventually gritted his teeth and turned around. Immediately, he opened the Spatial Gate to transfer the remaining hundreds of people to the surface.

A minute later, all the survivors had been moved to the surface. It was also at this moment that Emery felt the powerful surge of spirit energy that Atlas emitted reach its breaking point and unleashed an earth-shattering burst.

KABOOOOMMM!!!