CRRREEEAAAKKK!The sound of tearing wood clashing with ancient ice echoed long. The old ship finally hit the coast of that frozen land brutally.The entire hull tilted scraping roughly over the expanse of ice layer, crushing solid chunks as high as a human's chest. The ship glided wildly refusing to die, before finally st

The fog thinned little by little.That pair of warm black rails continued to cleave the white tundra like a long wound that refused to close. On its right and left sides, the snow began to change shape. The frozen flat surface was now filled with thin metal protrusions jutting out from below the ice.At first only one.Then three.Then dozens.And the further the Carrion Unit walked, the denser those objects grew filling the land.TING.That small sound was heard clearly when the wind touched one of the metal rods.Niko raised his head slowly.The rod was almost two meters tall. Very thin. A dull reddish color like old copper that had long oxidized. Its surface was filled with microscopic carved patterns resembling circuit lines.TING.TING.TINGGG.Small sounds began to emerge from all directions.Sora slowed her steps."They are resonating," Elara muttered quietly.Now the entire plain around them had turned into a forest of metal needles towering from the snow. Those thousands of t

That Dreadnought was still alive. But only in the most pathetic sense of the word. The entire giant steel hull vibrated violently like an old ancient beast being forced to keep standing even though its supporting bones were broken. The steam pipes along the dim red corridor spewed short stinging hot blasts. Emergency li