Several minutes passed.
The crisis situation prompted Ves to change into a suit of combat armor. Since he did not want to get caught flat-footed a second time, he also retrieved his B-stone lockbox from his vault.
Absent a suit of armor lined with a layer of B-stone, wearing the lockbox over his head was better than nothing!
During this time, the dark sphere surrounding the battlefield wasn't weakening.
In fact, the opposite happened. The abnormal sensor readings may largely be incomprehensible, but their fluctuations and energy levels kept rising on a steady basis.
If this trend remained constant, then the anomaly would grow four times stronger after an hour!
This was very alarming news. Even though some of the Larkinsons guessed that this constant strengthening was not good news to the pirates, since this move was targeted against their own mechs, letting this anomaly persist was one of the worst outcomes possible!
