The Beast's True Face

"Detected energy fluctuations above Calamity-level!"

"Warning: the eastern coastal crust has begun to shift..."

"Issue a nationwide warning immediately. No, issue a global warning. The world is about to face Calamity-level meteorological disasters!"

Inside the underground military base in Yanjing, red alarm lights flashed without pause. The wall bearing information on hundreds of high-risk Ability Users trembled continuously as well.

Within the base, countless researchers looked panicked, while the Reincarnators urgently gathered there wore grave expressions.

People constantly returned to the space from their sealed private quarters, attempting to obtain intelligence. Yet only scattered reports indicated that an extremely terrifying battle was currently taking place on Japan's main island.

The estimated destructive force had already exceeded Fierce-tier.

Yet that intelligence was already fifteen minutes old in real time. Judging by the current reactions on the surface, the battle there had not ended at all. Its intensity was instead continuing to rise.

"Tianjie, report on the current situation. This old man has never seen anything like this before..."

Zhong Tianming, the graying chief director of the Southern Heavenly Gate Project, presided over the conference room. The super AI Heavenly Palace was operating at full power, calculating the impact that the threat displayed in Tokyo would have on the global situation.

Heavenly Palace continually projected the future course of events based on the latest developments.

Across the screen, the words "Ability User" appeared more and more often amid long stretches of computational logic.

Even Zhong Tianming clearly realized that this group could no longer be contained in any way.

At first, when these people still had the weakness of being unable to be recorded by cameras or witnessed by the public, so-called Ability Users had merely been a field of research—"ghosts" unable to move freely through the world.

But ever since that