Wilderness south of Aines
A massive pitch-black Mecha cut across the night sky.
A straight-backed middle-aged man sat in the cockpit, looking at the screens inside. Beneath the dim twilight, faint, hazy mist was slowly rising.
The area covered by the mist was so vast that even the image from the Mecha's high-powered telescope could only show a blur of fog.
The man watched the scene and said in some surprise, "It's foggy outside? Fog this thick?"
"Scanning the composition of the outside air," a somewhat mechanical notification sounded in the cockpit. "No clear mist components detected. However, based on camera scans, luminous matter similar to mist has indeed appeared in the surroundings. Analysis suggests this mist phenomenon may have been constructed by some form of extraordinary power."
"Extraordinary power?" The middle-aged man froze slightly, looking at the mist on the screen. "Then help me shut off the optical concealment shield?"
Clack—
As his words fell, a structure beside him, like a metal door, slowly opened, revealing the transparent lens glass behind it.
The middle-aged man lifted his head and looked toward the lens glass. His gaze passed through it and saw the dense mist behind the glass.
The mist visible to the naked eye was far denser than what was displayed on the screen beside him.
"An extraordinary phenomenon?" He looked at the thick fog in confusion. "Mist covering such a wide area—how strong would the extraordinary power have to be, how terrifying the ability, to create this kind of effect?"
And just as he spoke, he abruptly realized that as he stared, faint wisps of mist were passing through the thick "glass lens," slowly spreading into the cockpit.
"Alarm. Unknown intrusion suspected to be extraordinary power detected."
Harsh red light instantly flashed through the cockpit.
Immediately after, the