War Verticals

The last airborne citadel, Gearhold, runs on steam and leftover magic crystals. It is split into the floating Upper City and the sunless Lower City, a dumping ground of refuse. On a stormy, thunder-lashed night, a burning aristocratic airship crashes into the junkyards of the Lower City. Karen, a reclusive mechanic, stumbles upon a dying young girl named Ella. To his horror, a glow seeps from a rupture on her chest—the cerulean radiance of a long-extinct Living Origin Magic Crystal. Before he can process what he sees, mechanical hounds dispatched by Lord Veyne, who schemes to seize power, surround the scene. Drawing on the instincts forged during his days as an elite Holy Guardian, Karen detonates the steam pipelines. He flees into the underground black market, dragging this glowing enigma along with him.

In 2055 AD (Year 333 of Planet Bermuda), an international scientific expedition UFO led by Mo Jiahai set out to investigate Planet Bermuda but became stranded due to depleted energy reserves. Some of the Earthlings adapted to the planet's environment and multiplied, while the UFO was buried deep in the desert. Centuries later, an orphan named Mo Chong, seeking to uncover his origins, allied with the Three-Wind Clan. In the desert, they encountered a death worm with metallic structural components. They broke into the relic spacecraft and came across a mutated AI robot, R, who intended to use magnetic light to transform the planet into an energy sphere. Mo Chong learned that his great-grandfather was Captain Mo Jiahai, and ultimately defeated R. A giant spacecraft appeared and sank into the depths, leaving the desert to return to desolation.