The Black Sky Pirate Laughs Beneath the Moon.

★ Anastasia ★

So they had been hiding something like this? That was Anastasia's frank impression.

"What do you think? This is the Empire's vaunted ultimate weapon, the strategic airship 'Bountiful Sky.'"

The Emperor spoke cheerfully as he led Anastasia through the flying carrier, the Bountiful Sky.

The reason the Emperor had remained so calm despite a dark shadow suddenly descending over the Empire and a huge, ominous creature emerging from a blood-red space was probably that he possessed a strategic airship like this.

If the Moonlit Beauty was a beautiful and swift airship, the Bountiful Sky was an ungainly yet large and powerful one. It supposedly required a minimum crew of one hundred people to operate.

"We conquered the 'Labyrinth of Awe' and thought we'd conquered the 'Labyrinth of Hatred' too, only to end up like this. But, looked at another way, this is the perfect opportunity to test the power of the Bountiful Sky."

The Emperor, accompanied by Anastasia and many ministers, arrived at the VIP room above the command room. From there, they could look down on the many people working below and clearly see the battle with the snake anemone through the magically reinforced glass mounted across the front.

As the military airships launched a coordinated bombardment, huge flames erupted across the snake anemone's trunk and the giant serpents, and the ministers cheered when its enormous body writhed in apparent distress.

The Emperor intended to enjoy a 'giant monster hunt' here with his ministers. Anastasia had been summoned merely to add some glamour—to serve as decoration, so to speak...