"What's going on? I thought this big guy was disabled? Why is it moving again?" asked Baron Sisse.

"Looks like there's no way out for us. Let's return to the control room and take a better look around us," I suggested.

The group followed my suggestion and returned to the control room. The horrifying scene we had expected to see appeared before us. Two thick steel chains were attached to the two sides of the shell-breaker. The two chains were connected to two Milky Way battleships. The two battleships were slowly dragging us toward an odd-looking place farther away from the city gate.

Beyond the damaged gate, right beside the precipitous mountain cliff, the imperial army had created an unusual zone. A constantly rotating sphere that looked like a black hole hovered in the air. Within the sphere, dark green lava roiled and churned, looking like the nuclear fusion that would generally happen in stars.

"Good heavens. What is that?" Dondon exclaimed in alarm.

"No idea. I've never seen or read about it in history books before,"...