"Roar..."
"Roar..."
The roars of beasts rose and fell amid the ruins, faint echoes audible in the distance.
This was a place reduced to ruins.
It had once been a city.
But in this world, human cities could not survive without the protection of Fenrir.
Because the creatures that had destroyed this world would not allow it.
—"Gods."
Creatures bearing the name of "god," diverse lifeforms that had branched off after the Oracle Cells that suddenly appeared in the 2050s devoured everything on Earth and underwent drastic mutations—humanity's natural enemies.
Ordinary weapons were utterly useless against their overwhelming strength.
With fear and reverence, people named them after the eight million gods of the Far East.
Their appearance had reduced more than half of civilization's cities to rubble in an instant.
And even today, the Gods continued to ravage the world's surface without restraint, firmly holding dominion over the land.
These ruins were merely one of the cities that had fallen victim to them.
They were located in the Far East, some distance away from Fenrir's Far East Branch.
Recently, there had been reports of a variant of the large god Vajra being sighted here.
For that reason, Fenrir's Far East Branch had dispatched a God Eater squad to subjugate this variant large god.
Naturally, the Vajra variant that was the target knew nothing of this.
So, carrying itself like a tyrant, it hunted and fed on its own kind.
"Roar!"
One Vajra seemed to sense danger and tried to flee, but it was already too late.
"Splurt—!"
A black claw swept past, and the Vajra's enormous body was instantly sliced into several pieces, spraying blood everywhere.
"Thud..."
Chunks of god flesh scattered into the pool of blood.
Only then did the attacker emerge from the darkness.
"ROAR ROAR ROAR ROAR