Across the ravaged ground, countless grotesque creatures crawled through the shadows.
The sky was dim and murky, like the scene before the Apocalypse descended, with only a faint glimmer of light filtering through.
This had once been a famous breeding district, with countless Apartments standing throughout it. But now, as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but ruins—and all kinds of Monsters crawling densely through them.
At one moment, accompanied by a shrill screech, an arrow gleaming with green light shot straight into the sky. As the Monsters below were startled by the sound and looked upward, the arrow suddenly exploded high above, turning into countless meteors that trailed green tails of light as they fell toward the ground.
...It was as if it had started raining.
The green rain of light lasted less than a few dozen seconds, but when it ceased, the Monsters below, like a nest of maggots, had all been sealed within chunks of emerald-green amber.
From a distance, the sight was actually rather magnificent.
"Good! That was an absolutely beautiful shot!!"
As if playing along, Hamuta immediately applauded his little sister.
"..."
Giving her brother a somewhat helpless look, Hatana put away her bow, then turned to look behind her.
—At the center of their group of more than ten people, a massive Monster was bound in iron Chains.
After staying in this hellish place for so long, they had naturally figured out some traits of these fused entities. As fused entities, their strength depended on the number of people they had fused with. A fused entity this enormous had absorbed at least several hundred people.
Normally, because they contained too many fused minds, such entities were mentally fractured and violent—super powder kegs that exploded at the slightest provocation. But this fused