Ethan's Powered Combat Armor immediately kicked into overload. Complex energy lines spread out from around his body, drawing the ore's power out thread by thread and guiding it into place.
The ore began to glow.
One chunk after another activated. Pale-blue energy patterns raced across the ground, spreading into a massive array network. As the energy gathered, a thick spatial barrier gradually took shape over the mine.
It wasn't a simple wall of force.
The structure was incredibly complex—dozens of energy channels braided together, continuously fed by the ore's steady output. From a distance, the entire mining range looked like it had been sealed inside a huge, transparent crystal.
Not long after the barrier stabilized—
The sky darkened.
From the direction of the Dark Abyss, a pitch-black mass was closing in fast. Dense swarms of flying creatures and abyss troops spread across the sky like a moving storm.
Zerathrax had arrived.
