On the Burning Legion, Xiao Ran finished reading the report in his hand, casually set it on the table, then leaned back in his chair and gently rubbed his eyes. It was not that he felt tired; the situation laid out in the report simply seemed rather complicated.
It had been nearly a week since Tessa had gone to visit the Dyson Sphere. As far as Xiao Ran was concerned, there was currently nothing on Earth that required his concern or arrangements. For now, everything remained in the intelligence-gathering and follow-up planning stages, and no problems had arisen that needed him to personally step in and resolve.
Peaceful. Earth had been quite peaceful over the past week. No Dimensional Beasts had appeared, no chaos had broken out, and no wars had started. Nothing had happened. Based on Tessa's earlier account of the Dimensional Beasts' appearance frequency, they appeared roughly once every half month to a month. It had only been a little over a week since the last appearance. Even after another week, Dimensional Beasts might not necessarily show up, so there was naturally no talk of deploying to capture them.
The Intelligence Analysis department had organized all the records of where and when Dimensional Beasts had appeared. Yet after comparing the information against a model of Earth, they found no particularly meaningful connection between the locations and timing of their appearances. The beasts simply appeared randomly across different parts of the planet. Even their numbers and levels were random. There was no way to determine where they would appear next. After a round of research and analysis filled with all sorts of convoluted theories, the conclusion was that nothing could be confirmed. Human analysis had produced two hypotheses.
The first was that the Dimensional Beast faction's current appearances on