The ship went dark once again, but its artificial illumination didn't return at that time. Even the mana barrier around the hull failed, turning the vessel into an unresponsive metal prison.
The troops deployed on the battlefield and the heavy weaponry had it far worse than the ship. Their colorless barriers and tanks stopped providing protection, exposing them to the world made of True Chaos.
That dark but glowing energy started devouring the soldiers' and weapons' mana as soon as their defenses vanished, weakening them or halting their functions altogether.
Even the Kros' mainframe stopped working, landing on the black ground, its enneagram losing its brightness.
The defensive measure the allied front had focused on perfecting had failed it immediately, removing that safer method of surviving the True Chaos' annihilation and turning that grand display of technological might into nothing more than dead metal.
