Newford City Center.
A bustling metropolis now a shell of its former self, swaddled in a sense of absurdity. Max, a silver-masked man, tilted his face upward, gazing at the monumental "Wall" nearing its completion. Its gargantuan, almost otherworldly, scale left an uncanny impression on him.
A few months ago, people were vexed about soaring house prices, crippling cost of living, and dwindling pensions. Yet, today, they were busying themselves with containment strategies - repelling giant insects beyond city borders and cocooning themselves inside a mammoth shield.
Indeed, the city, after the sacrifice of two A-rank space-awakened, resolved to convert the Wall into a Shield - an enclosure with a ceiling - an audacious plan of encapsulation. The ruling elite summoned top-tier earth-awakened from Luzmell to execute this scheme. The cost? Surrendering a substantial part of the city's productivity to support Luzmell's war efforts.
