The Goliath Stitcher did not yield easily. As the Citadel-Beast's obsidian claws dug into its scrap-metal torso, the monster's hundred red eyes began to pulse in a rhythmic, strobing glare. The rusted wires making up its limbs tightened, vibrating at a frequency that began to liquefy the air between the two giants. It was a "Disassembly Field," designed to shake the molecules of reality until they unspooled back into the Void.
Alicia felt the vibrations through the soles of her boots. The obsidian beneath her was starting to hum with a dangerous, unstable pitch. "It's trying to unweave us from the inside!"
"Not if I snap its spine first!" Nelluru's voice came over the internal resonance of the city. She had moved to the "Heart-Room" of the Citadel-Beast, her lime-green aura plugged directly into the harvested copper conduits.
With a surge of lime-green fire, the Citadel-Beast reared back on its hind legs. The indigo lightning from the Sky-Fray surged down the shadow-thread, coating the city's front limbs in a layer of absolute darkness.
The Citadel-Beast brought its massive obsidian weight down directly onto the Goliath's head.
The sound wasn't a crash; it was a detonation of sound and shadow. The Goliath's red glass eyes shattered simultaneously, raining shards of glowing crimson across the Iron Velvets. The scrap-metal frame of the monster buckled, its millions of wires snapping like violin strings under too much tension.
As the Goliath collapsed, Clevatess's chains descended from the clouds like heavy iron rain. They didn't just strike the fallen titan; they threaded through its remains, binding the millions of rusted pieces into a single, compact sphere of compressed metal.
The King's voice rumbled through the air, deeper and more physical than before. "The harvest is complete. Alicia... take the core. We need the red glass for the eyes of our own beast. We cannot sail the deeper Void if we are blind."
Alicia looked out over the battlefield. The Goliath was gone, replaced by a massive ball of high-quality scrap metal, and in its center sat a single, giant sphere of purified red glass—the "Loom-Eye."