Editing City Series:Volume3b Chapter 8 (section)

===Part 8===

Hong Kong shook.

Unlike during the Sixth Divine Punishment War, this shaking could not be mistaken for an earthquake. It was a vertical shaking that felt like something was directly striking the underside of the ground.

Gunmal and Genius had both run back to the wharf. There, Gunmal stabbed Wild König into the wharf’s shaking ground.

The General and his men only questioned his action for a moment.

They soon realized just what was going on.

The shaking vanished from that corner of the wharf and the General gave a light whistle.

“Did you change the crust here to your likin’ before the Earth Serpent could get to it?”

“It’s only for the area within twenty meters of me, but I completely remade it. This area should be a safe zone.”

“I see.”

The General nodded as a great roar surrounded them.

At the same time, the ground outside the twenty meter range Gunmal had mentioned began peeling up and flying toward the sky.

“Here it comes!” someone shouted.

They all turned toward Hong Kong Cave.

Beyond the curtain of stones falling upwards, they saw something unbelievable.

The one kilometer entrance to Hong Kong Cave had opened up on Hong Kong Island’s mountain peak.

A massive pure-white dragon’s head was sticking out from the hole.

It was enormous.

Using the hole as a reference, its neck had to be easily more than three hundred meters across.

“That’s ten times the size of the previous dragon!”

That estimation was no exaggeration.

The dragon was so large it did not seem real.

It was pure white and glowing because it was filled with the power of Yang.

The Earth Serpent raised its head like a snake and tried to leave the hole.

Everyone at the wharf subconsciously put up their defenses, but the dragon paid them no heed.

The rumbling of breaking stone sounded as it extended skywards and its front legs finally left the hole.

Based on the diameter of its neck, the distance from the shoulders of its front legs to its face was approximately 1.5 kilometers.

Its head scattered the small dark clouds floating below the rain clouds.

In all, it was over ten kilometers long.

Its pure-white serpentine body illuminated the typhoon’s dark clouds like a glowing tube rotating in the night sky.

The dragon opened its great maw toward the heavens hidden by the clouds.

After a brief delay, a roar rang out.

It was more a physical blow than a sound.

The massive wall of air shook its body, raced through the air as a wave, and slammed into those standing on the ground.

Affected by that impact, the stones taken up from the ground all turned to Lives.

The Earth Serpent raised its head, dragged its body further along, and fell down toward Hong Kong as if to receive those Lives.

Its fall took it toward the Wan Chai district left of Gunmal and the others in Central.

They heard the wind.

The great dragon was pushing out the surrounding air as it fell.

The General’s voice shouted over that wind.

“Hey! Is that…Akira!?”

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Gunmal looked up on reflex and did indeed see it.

A certain color floated at one point high in the sky near the falling dragon’s head.

A slight golden-white flower stood out against the pure white of the dragon.

It was Akira’s wings.

She was wobbling and falling after being knocked away by the dragon’s movement.

“…!? What are you doing, Akira!?”

Gunmal gave a yell as he pulled Wild König from the ground.