Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter4 (section)

===Part 12===

Hazel’s group up on the elevated railroad saw the blast racing from east to west.

They were in between Tempelhof and Kreuzberg.

They were just starting to descend at the next station when everyone caught up to them.

The view opened up in front of Hazel and she saw the dark forest stretching east to west in the distant fog.

…''That’s Tiergarten’s forest park.

Then a line through the park exploded.

First, the fog covering the forest appeared to be split between the north and south. Then the gray of dust and the white of a water vapor explosion shot high into the sky above the forest. It almost looked like a massive wall.

It took a moment longer before the sound and the wind arrived.

It was a powerful gust.

“––––!”

Everyone there on both sides ducked down to keep their footing in the wind.

The AIF’s divine spell users and Greenhorners set up a defense field and their charm user used a windshield charm to deflect the wind.

Hazel was protected by several layers of defenses, but she still had to hold her hair down and narrow her eyes against the strength of the wind.

…''I know this was part of the plan, but still!

The wind was more powerful than she had expected.

It hit her like a blast of sound, drowning out all the surrounding voices and trying to blow away everything here.

The Neue Kavaliers near the railroad’s walls were swept away in an instant. Of course, that wouldn’t be enough to kill such well-trained warriors.

…''Still, I’m worried.

Hazel held a hand to her chest just once.

She confirmed the Wheel of Destiny card was still in her breast pocket and then looked around.

Only a few seconds had passed since the explosion and she could tell the wind had weakened just slightly.

So she stepped out from behind the protective layers.

Coolers and the other unit commanders turned toward her while crouching low.

Coolers gave a firm nod in the wind.

She nodded back, said thank you, and let the wind push her as she ran.

She made her way to the left wall.

She staggered in the wind, but viewed the wind’s tone color and listened to its tempo to keep it from sweeping her away.

Her Live-viewing eyes could see the wind swirling within the dome.

This wind was blowing outwards from the blast.

That included an updraft from the explosion.

That updraft was drawing out an arc along the inside of the dome, causing it to spread outwards.

All of a sudden, Hazel could hear her own footsteps as she ran.

The wind had vanished.

The wind traveling outwards and the wind arcing downwards from above were colliding at the edge of the dome, which caused this still air. It was only for a brief moment while the powers of the two winds were in equilibrium and they canceled each other out.

Then large raindrops fell from the sky.

Hazel ducked away from the rain striking her skin, but she kept running.

She looked around to see everyone looking up at the rain falling inside the great growing umbrella.

They were all silent and motionless. She was the only one running toward the edge of the elevated railroad.

She arrived at the concrete wall.

With a single loud footstep, she climbed atop the wall damp with rain.

She heard a deep rumbling of thunder that sounded like a metal drum rolling along the ground.

…''The wind is breaking apart and canceling itself out.

She had a clear view in all 360 degrees, so she saw white smoke appearing along the entire edge of the dome.

Then she heard a voice from the railroad below. A few of the Geheimnis Agents were looking her way.

“Hey!”

They were telling the others to get moving because the Messiah was running away.

But it was too late.

…''Now, then.

Hazel gave a quick bow behind her and then jumped out from the wall.

She briefly floated in the air 25 yards above the ground.

She looked back before the floating sensation vanished.

A shape passed below the rupturing cascade of wind at the distant edge of the dome and flew toward her.

It forcibly slipped through the 30-yard gap between the dome and the surface.

“Corelle!”

That was the RB-21 two-hull transport ship. The larger ship kept its stability in the wind and accelerated without shaking.

It approached in the blink of an eye.

It enveloped Hazel in its defense field before passing her by.

She felt a wall of wind for just a moment.

But once she passed through it, she landed on the roof of the container tween the two hulls.

The flaps on the sides of the ship made minute adjustments to keep the ship from stalling while flying at such a low speed.

The bow pointed somewhat higher than horizontal to remain stable.

Then it flew away from the elevated railroad crawling with Neue Kavaliers.

The slightly upwards angle of its propulsion kept the heavy ship from falling before its powerful acceleration could begin.

Hazel crouched low and held Rein König under her arm while grabbing ahold of a seam in the container with her empty right hand. The ship’s angle gradually increased until she could only see the back of the container and the moonlit sky.

The defense field weakened the wind, but Hazel’s rain-wet hair still blew behind her, quickly drying out.

After 5 seconds, the RB-21 suddenly tilted downwards to direct itself forward instead of upward.

The remaining Gs of the ascending acceleration pinned Hazel to the floor when she would have flown off.

Her wristwatch said it was 2:37 AM.

…''Another 23 minutes!

They pulled out into the open air.

They were surrounded by a great emptiness.

Her view had been restricted to the moon and the container, but now it opened up. She could see the dome above and…

“Tristan!”

With that exclamation, an umbrella of white water vapor formed around the RB-21’s nose.

With a roar of speed, the RB-21’s flaps caught the wind and its wings harnessed its lift.

The two-hull ship took an arcing path as it broke through a wall of air and continued on ahead.

Its wings sliced through the wind to reach the top of the giant cross.