Chapter 269

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Honestly, I was nervous.

[chhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!]

-Kaaaaaahhhhhhh.

"Ha, ha, ha."

The deafening binge, the constant rush of beasts on the ground.

And

"This is... What the..."

The glowing oval gates floating in the darkened sky resemble portals, like something out of a space movie.

Up in the sky, one by one, like stars shining sullenly in the moonlight.

[-gurgle, gurgle, gurgle]

In the air and on the ground

-Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud.

Bizarre things, the size of bears, not of this world fell through the gates, one by one.

As soon as they got up, they attacked anything and everything around them

There were so many of them and they were relentless, even for the experienced Stardus.

"...Though it's a good thing they're so weak."

[Aaaahhhhh!]

She thought to herself as she smashed the beasts with a single punch.

The only good thing was that they died from a single blow, but there were still too many of them.

"Ha, ha, ha..."

And the most terrifying thing was that she didn't know when this disaster was going to end.

"Are you okay?"

"... Thank you..."

After saving a man who was pinned under the rubble of a building that had been attacked by monsters and wiping the sweat from her brow, she thought that the only good thing was that people had gotten away earlier.

Partly because the Association had reacted immediately and led them out the moment the gates appeared and so far there don't seem to be many victims, but...

"....."

I wonder how much longer they can hold out.

I wonder if all the monsters I've seen so far are less intelligent, roaming the ground and unable to climb buildings. Or the flying kind could only fly and not attack the ground or something like that.

...What if there was a monster that attacked underground? What if there was a monster that was stronger than any of them?

She could feel it in her gut that this is just the beginning and that there would be something stronger to come.

"...Ha."

A ruined city center, a sky so black you can't see a thing without streetlights, smoke billowing from everywhere, and the creepy cries of monsters. The world seems closer to destruction than ever before.

Even as she calmly swept away the monsters around the giant tower that had so suddenly appeared in the sky deep in her heart, there was still a lingering sense of unease because the situation seemed to have no answers.

Now more than ever, he was the only one who could provide answers in situations that always seemed to have no answers.

The image of him kept coming to mind.

'...Egostic.'

[Yes. There's probably something. Something big, maybe, something so big that you'll never be the same again.]

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