At that moment, as Ace and Eva looked ahead, they saw it and realized they weren't alone, as dots appeared across the horizon like comets.
But they weren't mere comets, for as Dread Duchess's warship grew closer, similar warships, flying palaces, flying abyssal beast mounts, arks, and even skeletal chariots pulled by abyssal horrors, and countless vessels erupted into motion from every corner of the Plains.
Some burst forth out of hidden locations while others tore free from renowned strongholds of Abyssal Plains, and a few even descended from the sky itself, as if they had been waiting all along.
Some of them moved at ridiculous speeds, even faster than sound, and some were faster than law-bound flight. At the same time, some were driven by greed, desperation, pride, madness, and ambition.
The entire Abyssal Plains was mobilizing.
