Bab 1955: Manjusaka, the City in the Sky

Forsaken cities, broken freeways, high buildings that were riddled with holes, and lead gray clouds that fell from the sky in threads like skinny claws that were going to grab all the creatures on the bleak land and feed the prey into their mouths.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Every now and then, explosions echoed in the distance, mixed with the collapses of the skyscrapers. Gray and red smoke rose on the horizon, like enormous tumors that were floating in midair.

A shuttle that had been through crazy modifications ran without any noise despite the ragged appearance in the middle of the bones of the city, leaving a long pillar of smoke behind.

From the ruins of the skyscrapers on the two sides of the road, lizards with multiple heads and venomous cysts crawled out and stared at the shuttle greedily.

But before they released their venom, the shuttle flashed by.