Zephyria tore through the sky.
The floating city did not drift gently. Propelled by the Aether-Nova Engine, the massive black mountain accelerated straight up like a launched spear.
The new pitch-black Void-shield sliced perfectly through the atmospheric friction.
Lucifer stood on the high balcony of the central keep with his void-swirling eyes fixed on the sky above.
The horizon below them, the dead ash-covered continent, completely vanished into a curvature of dark gray.
The sky above lost its bright blue hue and shifted rapidly into a deep bruised purple, and finally into pure absolute blackness.
They breached the atmosphere!
They entered the vacuum of deep space.
"We are past the atmospheric edge," Sarah reported over the comms rune. The Star-Touched Oracle was stationed on the Spire of Celestial Convergence surrounded by floating holographic starmaps.
"The environmental friction is zero. The Void-shield is holding perfect internal pressure. We have life support."
