Under a lead-gray sky, a blizzard cut across the frozen earth like blades.
Deep within the ruins, an unusual team was advancing at a steady pace.
Twenty Peacekeeper Golems, arranged in two columns, escorted six members of an investigation team as they advanced toward a peculiar building within the metal city.
A translucent AT Field formed an oval-shaped safe zone, like a moving bubble.
Outside, a few scattered metal lifeforms crawled out from crevices in the ruins. The moment they came within ten meters, they were repelled by the Force Field.
THUD.
A metal monster resembling a hound slammed into the Force Field, its body instantly twisting into a mangled heap.
A nearby Peacekeeper raised its right arm.
A beam of light flashed.
The metal hound was pierced through, its core shattered, and its limbs collapsed into a pool of inert metal.
Captain Silas walked in the center of the formation, watching the monsters outside the Force Field charge them like moths to a flame.
