Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter8 (section)

===Part 6===

The battle above Germania had intensified.

The black dragon had already grown more than 40 miles long and was preparing to move outside of its territory centered on Germania.

Its entire body shook in its attempt to move out, but two Grösse Panzers and an aerial squadron fired on it from close range to hold it back.

But the black dragon moved out regardless. Its dragon eyes narrowed and light gathered at its forehead.

Atop Neue Silber, Bermark swapped out Freischütz’s magazine.

“A Drache Kanone is coming. If it were a mechanical one, my incomplete Erklärung would be enough to dismantle it.”

“That won’t work here. All aircraft, take cover behind Neue Silber!”

Schweitzer nodded at Lowenzahn’s command, stood on the edge of the roof, and readied his staff.

The wind blew and the dragon pulled its head back for just a moment in preparation to fire its Drache Kanone.

The fighters and attack craft rode the wind to circle behind Neue Silber. Neue Blau and Neue Zinnobar did the same to take advantage of Schweitzer’s protection.

Just then, something changed with the dragon. The light gathering at its forehead suddenly scattered and vanished.

“What!?” shouted Schweitzer, but he immediately regained a look of tension and swung his staff out even further with his fingertips. Several times as much light as before gathered on the staff just as the dragon made its move.

But this movement would not fire a Drache Kanone. It moved out ahead, opened its mouth, and attempted to eat Neue Silber.

“Are you kidding me!?” shouted Lowenzahn.

Her protest was answered by the color red growing to fill their vision. The wet crimson of the black dragon’s tongue and the inside of its mouth approached while shining in the moonlight. It was so big they actually had a hard time grasping just how big it was.

But Schweitzer spoke to Lowenzahn.

“I shall protect you, Lowenzahn.”

He leaped forward into the empty air – into the dragon’s maw.

He turned around in midair and swung his staff toward Neue Silber.

He instantly created a giant barrier cube. It was around half a mile long on each side and it sliced apart the sky before dropping down with Neue Silber inside. It took them just out of range of the dragon’s jaws.

But while Neue Silber fell, Lowenzahn saw a staff-wielding man in the sky just in front of the dragon’s open jaws. She saw the man about to be devoured.

So she shouted on reflex.

“Someone!” she cried. “Someone please help us!”

Her thoughts became a pure Text that spread across the black dragon’s entire territory.

<The New World desires power!>

Her cry received an answer from within the black dragon itself.

<Power is…>

A Text shook the air as a power burst out of the dragon’s body like a bullet.

<Power is the symbol of the emperor!>

It was a black Grösse Panzer, but it had white wings on its back. The two giant wings spread out while white armor covered its body. That was Neue Schwarz’s Weiss Kaiser.

When Lowenzahn saw it, her Erklärung synced with the Grösse Panzer.

“That Panzer inherited Kaiser’s memory and had its Eingeweide built on that base!”

<The New World recalls the emperor’s majesty.>

The white wings stretched out in the blink of an eye.

The sharp wings caught the jaws snapping shut on the man overhead, but they kept moving from there. The white wings spread out across the sky and roared.

The roar turned west within the dome of clouds.

Then everyone else looked west to see a light.

The clouds were shredded in the distance there, revealing the night sky and a bluish-white point of light shaking the air as it flew straight in.

Its speed reached them all as power and the black dragon roared.

It roared louder and louder.