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Orange!

Orange-red!

Scarlet!

Dark red!

The changes in color only flickered frame by frame in recollections after the event.

In reality, the moment the alert bar surged again, the next reaction time revealed the performance monitor of the Psychic Energy Canopy displaying a glaring "Connection Lost" warning in bright red.

"Poof~"

The membrane punctured by a hole instantly caused a violent reaction throughout the Psychic Energy Canopy. From the perspective of the Observer inside the spaceship, the once faintly glowing blue veil expanded as if it were overinflated to its limits, shattering in an instant upon breaching the threshold.

The fragments of the blue veil briefly floated in the abyss of space before transforming into finer particles, gradually integrating into the darkness of the void until they disappeared completely.

Spiritual Energy is a force bound by its intrinsic nature.

It has never been a capability that can be imposed unilaterally.

Under the impact that exceeded its limits, the composition of the Psychic Energy Canopy—essentially those Canopy Generators flying across spherical space—all froze in place.

The feedback of spiritual energy plunged them into intense oscillations, and many of the Canopy Generators' pilots had succumbed to genuine annihilation due to excessive shock.

Perhaps some remaining Canopy Generators could be reutilized after self-repair over time, but that was clearly irrelevant to the unfolding situation.

Freed from entrapment, Catherine would never halt and allow herself to be captured. Being this close to the Bauhinia Republic's borders ensured there would be no second chance to deploy such a cage.

This legendary Mech Pilot escorting the precious cargo ultimately fought her way through countless checkpoints set by the Peak Alliance, successfully returning to her nation.

Yet, for the Peak Alliance Observer team closest to the scene aboard the spaceship, a final thought reverberated in their minds—

Was it an illusion?

Had the alert bar momentarily shown a downward trend?

Time carries entirely different implications for the strong and the ordinary.

In the span of a single second, a strong individual might glean tens of thousands of datapoints, processing thousands of thoughts; whereas an average person might only perceive hundreds or thousands of datapoints and fleetingly process dozens or hundreds of thoughts.

The efficiency of utilizing time is fundamentally disparate.

In that fleeting moment of change, they distinctly believed that the alert bar had displayed a brief dip.

It implied that Catherine, the Bauhinia Republic's Legendary Mechanic, had already reached her limit in that instant.

First effort brings vigor. A second brings exhaustion. A third brings collapse.

No one can persist against repeated setbacks.

Unless, of course, there's an immense breakthrough on-site—transforming into a devil or ascending to sainthood in the span of a moment.

Otherwise, Catherine's performance had already peaked to the utmost clarity.

Moreover, on top of all this, that Legendary Mechanic visibly paused after unleashing her ultimate strike.

Even if there was a marginal delay between the real-time visual feed and the spaceship feedback systems regarding the Canopy Generators, consciousness naturally processed events to align Catherine's movements and the alert indicator on the timeline.

At the instant of the alert bar's sharp decline, Catherine most likely had already eased back.

And yet, their supposedly secure Psychic Energy Canopy still shattered mercilessly.

Could this mean that the Mech Pilot inside the Mecha accompanying Catherine had managed to launch an attack potent enough to breach the Psychic Energy Canopy, even with Catherine scaling down her output or outright halting her strikes?

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Someone who surpasses Catherine, the Legendary Mechanic?

But… a Legendary Mechanic represents the pinnacle tier of humanity in terms of Mech Pilots.

Alternatively, this Mech Pilot might not have broken through entirely on their own. Perhaps their assault rode the remnants of momentum left by Catherine's preceding strike.

Even so, the strength of this Mech Pilot would at least operate at an equivalent tier to Catherine's.

Assuming, of course, that everyone's observations earlier were not some collective illusion.

"The alert bar just now, it genuinely showed signs of dropping, right?"

"I saw it clearly—Catherine had already stopped her attacks!"

"Catherine absolutely hit her limit—there's no doubt about it!"

If one person's illusion might still be mistaken, then phenomena observed by everyone cannot possibly be a mirage!

If their observations were indeed accurate, the Mech Pilot from Catherine's accompanying Mecha would rank somewhere between "equal to Catherine" and "far superior to Catherine."

Determining the exact level, however, was confounded by the delay between the visual feeds and the feedback system.

Realizing this caused the Observers aboard the spaceship to feel an intense and visceral dread.

Yet here lay the problem... Does such a powerhouse exist within this Stellar District?

There are confirmed individuals roughly equivalent to Catherine's level—about six or seven throughout the Stellar District.