(The second chapter will be later. Yi Zui has something to take care of—something involving my little darling.)
Japan. By the time Xiao Ran piloted the Variable Fighter to Japan, he had already received all the information from this side and remained in communication to understand everything that had happened.
Tokyo, a massive administrative region consisting of twenty-three special wards and twenty-seven cities. From the moment Xiao Ran reached the coastline, he saw flames burning across the waters near the shore. Countless warship fragments were scattered over the sea. An entire conventional fleet had been completely destroyed by a single enemy.
A straight line of devastation extended inland from the coast, turning the city by the sea into an inferno. Along that line, countless buildings on both sides had collapsed, while wreckage from innumerable conventional Defense Force units—including tanks, fighter jets, and helicopters—littered the area.
It was as though someone had carved a trail through the city, one that stretched into the far distance. A layer of black clouds also hung over the entire city, refusing to disperse.
According to information sent by the Defense Command Center, the one that had destroyed an entire fleet and left behind this trail of destruction through the city was merely a single unit. Yet that one unit possessed defenses that could not be breached and attacks that could destroy anything in their path. It had also wiped out every deployable Defense Force in the Tokyo region.
Only a short time had passed since the attack began, yet it had already continued its destruction in a straight line, neither evading nor avoiding anything as it charged directly into the second city.
As pictures and footage of the overwhelmingly destructive unit were transmitted into the Variable Fighter, Xiao Ran finally saw the monster that had