At Moyulan Base, Mako Mori frowned gravely when she received the news.
The situation appeared far more serious than they had imagined. The power these Monster Worshippers possessed vastly exceeded their estimates.
Not only did they have powerful officials shielding them as an Umbrella Corporation, but they themselves also possessed formidable armed forces—even Jaegers!
However, thinking of the Obsidian Fury Newt had built, Mako Mori was no longer quite so surprised.
After all, people had long been manufacturing illegal Jaegers, giving rise to a Jaeger black market. Jack had once made money by stealing Jaeger core components from scrapyards for retired Jaegers.
Now, it seemed that more than half of those parts had likely ended up in the hands of these Monster Worshippers.
The appearance of large numbers of illegal Jaegers immediately caused a huge uproar. Unlike the illegal Jaegers discovered before, these ones were far more aggressive.
Not only did they take the initiative to attack Pan Pacific Defense Corps soldiers, but several illegal Jaegers in the Tokyo region also broke into the military restricted zone where Kaiju corpses were stored. They seized several Kaiju bodies and attempted to transport them to Mount Fuji!
They actually intended to carry out the plan the Kaiju had failed to complete before—to detonate Mount Fuji and destroy humanity!
All humanity was thrown into an uproar. No one had expected these Monster Worshippers to have already defected to the Precursors, nor that they would still be plotting humanity's destruction at this point!
This betrayal from within humanity itself had caught everyone completely off guard. Thinking that a group of "compatriots" bent on destroying humanity had been lurking beside them all these years, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
Seeing this, the high-ranking officials and politicians who had served as an Umbrella