After Wen Xishu initiated "Attack this round," every member of his team immediately agreed.
He even unlocked an achievement: "Pull Together."
Pull Together: When all your team members instantly enter combat readiness and agree to attack, you gain 15 affinity with every team member and the Battle Spirit Surge status. Your skill cooldowns are halved in the coming battle.
It sounded... pretty simple. All they had to do was agree beforehand to enter combat readiness immediately.
By rights, this should have been a powerful buff, but Wen Xishu felt it was far too easy to obtain.
Still, he had no time to dwell on that odd feeling.
The scenery around them had already begun to change.
They were in a town on the outskirts that had fallen into ruin. Everyone appeared inside its supermarket, and the door to the Storage Room stood open.
Wen Xishu thought the scene looked familiar, but a moment later, a long-haired monster consisting of nothing but a head floated through the air and lunged straight at him.
"Commander, watch out!"
The head looked like a lantern suspended in midair, its long hair streaming eerily around it.
Wen Xishu reacted the instant it charged, but he needn't have bothered. Colonel Devin rammed into the head first and shattered it.
"Colonel Devin, are you all right?" Elsa immediately began checking his injuries.
To make sure the eerie monster was dead, Cavintim fired a shot at its head with his suppressed pistol from behind them.
The three worked seamlessly together.
"I'm fine. Commander, be careful. According to the instructions, we have to clear a series of stages. Each stage has a different setting. Once we clear them all, we can reach somewhere untouched by the Balance Curse!"
"We'll encounter plenty more strange creatures ahead. Don't let