Saiyan stowaways on the Ark

As they lost their balance and experienced a strong sense of weightlessness, they immediately realized that they were falling.

Rosemary was still in a daze.

Chen doesn't possess the kind of light-footed skill from comics where one can step on fallen leaves and ascend to the heavens in one step.

Amiya doesn't possess any Originium Arts related to flight; at most, she can only float for a short time while supporting her own weight.

"It's alright! I still have ropes! Everyone, hold on tight to me!"

The doctor's words gave everyone a sense of hope at that moment.

But as soon as he spoke, the others saw the rope pulley falling amidst the debris.

"Help!!!"

It was only a few seconds, a much shorter fall than it appeared from the outside, that came to an abrupt end before they were prepared.

They landed in that "bottomless darkness".

—Then it bounced up.

Chen was the first to react. She caught Rosemary, who had also bounced up, and hugged her to steady herself on the unstable "ground".

Next was Amiya, who adjusted her posture in mid-air while pressing down on her skirt, which was being lifted up by the wind pressure, and sat down on something with a strange feel in a slightly awkward manner.

"My face!!!"

That's a PhD's head.

Amiya's face immediately turned red, and she quickly got off the Doctor, whether by covering her skirt or her face.

"Stop yelling, anyway, I can't really tell what you look like normally."

Chen put down the rosemary he was holding. In the slightly darker environment, the rosemary's pupils returned to normal, and then she seemed to wake up from a dream and stopped being dazed.

"Amiya, so the sun is this gentle?"

Rosemary asked a question out of the blue.

"sun?"

The doctor pinched the bridge of his nose, wondering if it was broken, and asked in confusion.

"Yes, the black sun was huge and hot, which was incredible."

Rosemary continued:

"It's right here, right beneath our feet."

As Rosemary spoke, a thick shadow seemed to rise from the darkness beneath their feet.

At the end of the shadow were two enormous red lanterns.

It also appears to have a pair of strange, sharp, forked outlines.

The shadow parted, revealing two rows of sharp teeth that no other fanged beast could match.

It began to shake, accompanied by a "snoring" sound even louder than before.

Everyone was shaken down by the darkness and landed on the real "bottom of the pit".

It is as huge as a mountain.

It was as black as night.

What was thought to be just the pitch-black darkness at the bottom of the pit has now been revealed in its entirety to the Doctor and the others.

"dragon!?"

The Doctor and Amiya gasped in surprise, astonished by the legendary creature that had appeared there without them knowing how.

"sister!?"

But from Chen's mouth came words that shocked the former even more.

[Main Text] Chernobog, Amidst the Ruins: Chapter Twenty - The Roar of the Evil Dragon

Most of the races in Terra have corresponding creatures in nature that resemble them.

Rupert and the wolf, Liberi and the bird, Fonhoof and the cow, etc.

However, that is only the "vast majority," and many of them are magical creatures that only exist in legends or paintings.

For example, some members of the Felin tribe have two tails.

Some Kuranta people have winged features.

Furthermore, almost none of the Sarkaz and Lateran have ever seen any other creatures similar to themselves.

The same applies to Chen's race, "Dragon," or Talulah's race, "Drak."

Just because something doesn't exist doesn't mean people can't recognize its image.

None of those present had ever seen the Drak figure described in the story in real life, yet when the dark, giant shadow revealed its full form as it moved, everyone shouted its name in astonishment.

The crater is over 100 meters in diameter, but its body almost fills the entire bottom of the pit.

The darkness we saw earlier was simply its belly facing upwards, its soft yet incredibly resilient skin pointing towards the sky.

Now it let out a huge roar, rolled its massive body over, and the neatly arranged huge black scales on its back easily crushed the surrounding ruins. If the people had landed on its back earlier, they would probably have been pierced by the sharp scales.

Its robust hind limbs and somewhat slender forepaws make it look like a black-bodied but unconventional Safra, yet the black horns on its head connected to its massive and narrow neck are already a symbol of the legendary behemoth.

"Sister...Sister!?"

Even without any evidence, Chen didn't know why he blurted out that name.

A difference of thousands or even tens of thousands of times in size, with no resemblance whatsoever in appearance.

But Chen still exclaimed in shock after seeing its full appearance.

"Sister? Is it Talulah?"

The doctor struggled to regain his footing. Although he had undergone physical training during this period, every move Derek made was causing the surrounding environment to tremble. Even actions not taken with hostility could stir up a storm strong enough to lift rocks.

However, before Chen could explain his intuition, Rosemary said:

"Everyone, come quick, it's angry."

As soon as Rosemary finished speaking, a blue Originium Arts fluctuation emanated from the box-shaped device on her back. Instantly, four long, narrow shadows fell from the sky, piercing straight into the exceptionally solid ground and surrounding the four people at the bottom of the pit from all four directions.

They were four metal artifacts, each over two meters long, each bearing the Rhodes Island logo and a serial number.

Its appearance is that of a shield or a greatsword without a blade. Its extremely heavy appearance and the large chunks of ground it shatters upon landing are enough to illustrate how difficult it would be to operate as a piece of equipment by manpower.

However, rosemary doesn't need to be touched. Simply stand still, radiating Originium Arts energy, and raise your arm to make it float up as lightly as a feather and move freely.

This is the "annihilation warfare equipment" that can maximize the combat capabilities of rosemary.

It can be used for defense or as a pure kinetic energy weapon to destroy targets.

“Something huge is coming. Don’t move. Stay within my ‘range’.”

The weapons, planted at the bottom of the pit in four directions, expanded further as her spell progressed, with visible magical fluctuations covering the gaps between them and above, forming a hemispherical protective shield.

Rosemary and the doctor were among them.

But Amiya, who knew Rosemary best among them, was surprised—Rosemary had actually chosen to go on the defensive.

The Doctor had long forgotten about the operators. Chen Ze had only recently joined, and Amiya, the only one with experience working with Rosemary, had already seen her fighting style.

Despite her young age, Rosemary is serious and unsmiling, and her behavior can be described as eccentric even on Rhodes Island. However, due to her past experiences, she not only closes herself off but also has a strong tendency to be aggressive and destructive towards others.

She has difficulty controlling her power, and some unintentional actions can have serious consequences for the outside world. This is why her weapon is "annihilation warfare" equipment—destroy everything about the target, regardless of life or death.

Although she underwent a long period of education and training on Rhodes Island, she still uses similar methods in combat as before.

This time, however, she chose to defend instead of completely destroying it before the opponent could make a move.

The dragon sat in a crouching position at the bottom of the pit, facing the four people inside the protective shield. However, the dragon seemed to ignore their presence, and simply swept its tail, shattering the cave wall behind it. It was as if the entire underground core city was shaking along with the earth.

It raised its neck, opened its mouth wide, and roared at the sky directly above. The powerful shockwave even penetrated the barrier, making everyone feel numb all over.

The surrounding ruins cracked and crumbled further, as if they would collapse at any moment and fill the pit.

The roar ended, echoing across the sky. Even those who covered their ears felt as if they had lost their hearing, and only then did they decide to face the monster before them.

And it, as if having just made a declaration and proclaimed its existence, lowered its head again and opened its huge mouth, big enough to swallow the doctor and the others whole.

“Hold onto my weapon and let’s fly up together,” Rosemary said expressionlessly. “Amiya, my skills are insufficient to lift it.”

Rosemary's straightforward advice to everyone to retreat succinctly revealed the question that Amiya hadn't yet had a chance to ask.

It wasn't that rosemary took the initiative to adopt a defensive stance.

Rather, she had already launched the attack.

Rosemary's Originium Arts is a special art that is abstract to describe but has very direct effects.

She could "see" a wider area, and her feeling was that she had become a giant, looking down at the surrounding environment from a high place.

She can “pick up” things around her, and it feels as if her arms have become much larger, grabbing at targets around her and then crushing or tearing them apart.

Its scope is so vast that it covers the entire core city.

Its power is so great that it can crush a tall building.

Even so, Rosemary had already tried to snap the dragon's neck or restrain its body so that it could not move when the dragon got up.

Its current appearance is enough to show that the rosemary's attack had little effect on it.

"Even rosemary's attack...?"

There was no time to shock Amiya now. Rosemary said she was telling them to grab their weapons, but she had actually used her magic to force everyone to float.

The rosemary, accelerating instantly, carried them away from the deep pit, which was hundreds of meters deep. What came into view were the operators lying haphazardly on the ground.

"They're not in mortal danger; they seem to have been stunned by the roar..."

This is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

But even more misfortunes follow mercilessly.

Another wave of tremors began to shake the ground—the giant dragon in the deep pit was about to crawl out.