Chapter 044: A City Where Both Sky and Earth Are Made of Steel?
Mars Vers Empire.
In the room of Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia, granddaughter of the first Emperor of Mars—
"P-Princess?!"
Eddelrittuo let out a panicked, frightened cry, her young face filled with bewilderment.
The princess she served had suddenly started vomiting.
Her face was pale and turning blue, looking extremely unwell. Her body was trembling, as if terrified of something.
This situation had frightened Eddelrittuo badly.
Even a sudden illness shouldn't be like this.
Could it be that something was wrong with what she had just eaten?
Had someone poisoned her?
No, that couldn't be—she had prepared it herself, how could it be poisoned?
"I'm going to call for—"
"There's no need, Eddelrittuo!"
Asseylum immediately interrupted Eddelrittuo and grabbed her small hand.
"But..."
"I just had a nightmare. I dreamed that we were at war with Earth, and there were dead people everywhere."
This explanation from Asseylum finally convinced Eddelrittuo, whom she regarded as a younger sister.
After Eddelrittuo cleaned up the vomit, Asseylum gently stroked her chest.
Gritting her teeth and gathering her courage, she re-entered that tragic livestream.
It was the most horrifying hell she had ever seen.
Even though she had browsed through materials depicting hellish scenes from the war between the Mars Empire and Earth, none compared to the horrors of the world where the golden gentleman now found himself.
....
Her own world had been invaded by BETA, and the scenes of people being devoured by these monsters were equally hellish.
She had witnessed such hellish scenes with her own eyes.
Therefore, Kouzuki Yuuko had greater resistance to the hellish scenes in the current livestream and didn't experience such intense psychological discomfort.
From what she could see now, the world he was in faced two types of enemies.
One was the somewhat mysterious demonic monsters that seemed to occupy human bodies and transform them into demonic creatures.
The other was what she was currently seeing—this nest-like place with numerous eggs. Some of the transparent eggs revealed monsters that looked somewhat insect-like.
Hmm?
They had noticed him, so the monsters on the mining truck were rushing toward him. They were similar to the creatures he had encountered in the elevator shaft, with three arms and sharp claws.
Wait, there were also what appeared to be normal humans attacking him—they must have betrayed humanity and joined these monsters.
However, these were quickly killed by him. He didn't immediately leave this massive elevator but flew toward the top of the elevator car—using a grappling hook to pull himself up.
What was he doing?
Kouzuki Yuuko roughly guessed his purpose, and sure enough, he destroyed the elevator cables.
Thus, this gigantic elevator, comparable in size to a football field, fell toward the bottom with a screech.
BOOM—!
An exceptionally loud noise rang out when the elevator car had fallen less than ten meters from the elevator entrance. The metal top of the elevator car was severely deformed, and a claw had pierced through part of it, showing how terrifying the monster was.
From the size of that claw, Kouzuki Yuuko estimated how large the monster must be, determining that it had likely hatched from the largest egg in the elevator car.
Now, he was running toward the outside, toward the light at the end of the passage ahead.
When he ran out of the passage exit, she could see the outside world better through the god's-eye view.
What entered her vision left Kouzuki Yuuko stunned once again.
This was a city that could be described as a steel forest, or perhaps "nest" would be more fitting.
Because there was no orderly construction, it was completely chaotic like an ant colony.
This steel nest-like city was staggeringly vast—looking around, one could see neither sky nor earth.
It wasn't that the view was blocked by chaotic buildings when looking horizontally in all directions.
The level he was on was like a floor of a high-rise building without walls, only load-bearing pillars, so the view extended well into the distance horizontally.
The distance between the top and ground level averaged around 300 meters.
The ground was a steel forest city, and the ceiling above was also a steel forest city. The chaotic construction, with some parts extending downward, created the illusion that the steel city in the sky was upside down.
She couldn't imagine how much steel would be needed to build such an enormous steel structure—would all the steel in her country be enough?
Of course, besides this astonishing sight, the steel city was engulfed in warfare everywhere.
In this layered space, numerous aircraft were engaged in combat in the air, and flying monsters were also battling with aircraft.
On the ground, humans fought against humans, and monsters fought against humans. The entire layered space seemed to be covered with projectiles from all angles, forcing him to move to avoid stray bullets.
BOOM—!
A loud noise and the metal's piercing screech—some buildings on the top were hit by artillery and fell down. Thousands upon thousands of people fell with them.
They either died from the fall or were crushed to death.
Looking carefully, insect-like monsters on this side were collecting human bodies.
No, not just human bodies—it seemed that all organic matter was being piled together and transported somewhere.
Clearly, hatching grounds like the elevator car were not limited to just one location.
Hell was everywhere here, despair was everywhere, giving even Kouzuki Yuuko a chill.
Suddenly, he jumped onto a platform and looked behind him, causing Kouzuki Yuuko to freeze.
Initially, she had thought this was a steel city built underground, but through his perspective from behind, she finally saw the surface.
His position should be at the edge of this unimaginably vast steel city, so she could see what appeared to be a mining factory in the distance outside the city. It was also staggeringly enormous.
It was a mining factory towering thousands of meters high.
This factory was built against a mountain and constructed without any aesthetic consideration. It released massive amounts of rolling black smoke into the sky, causing severe pollution.
The surrounding land seemed to have died from pollution, with no signs of life—just bare, stone-like surfaces.
The mountain being mined appeared to have already lost half its mass, yet what remained easily surpassed the largest mountain peak in Kouzuki Yuuko's country.
Wait, this wasn't just a mining factory—it was likely an integrated warship factory, as she could see grotesque warships without any aesthetic appeal taking off.
Were the cannons on this seemingly unfinished warship turning toward them?
A flash of intense light—a beam even more terrifying than the large-scale light beams of the BETA in Kouzuki Yuuko's world, a beam that left her speechless—passed over his head.
And thus, the metal sky was torn apart!
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