I'm Not a Lonely Savior. Behind Me Stands an Army of Thousands! / We Have the Advantage! ...

In short, the Giant Borer prowling the depths of the Sea of Quantum like a deep-sea leviathan was actually formed from an endless tide of insects.

Those omnipresent eyes were proof enough.

For some reason, however, these bugs had become one whole, no different from a single individual.

Facing the mockery in the eyes of these low-intelligence bugs, Gwen merely grinned and clenched his fist...

I Am Not a Lone Savior. Behind Me Stand Thousands Upon Thousands!

"Are you getting smug a little too soon?"

As those indifferent words fell, dazzling radiance suddenly bloomed from Gwen's body.

Gwen truly had not expected the Giant Borer, which had only been slowly advancing under observation, to suddenly launch such a sneak attack.

But that did not mean Gwen had been defeated so easily—

Before that light, brighter than a star, the tentacles that had failed to immediately breach the Land of Nothingness Gwen had deployed melted away like snow beneath the blazing sun.

The individual bugs forming those tentacles vanished without even managing to let out one final cry before death.

Within this sea flickering with eerie, chilling light, a blinding beam suddenly pierced the bottomless darkness, illuminating the true nature of that ghostly glow—

They were the compound eyes opened by each of the bugs composing this Giant Borer.

The next moment, the insect nest sealing Gwen inside was shattered by the light and completely disintegrated. The eyes covering every corner of the Giant Borer's body were fully exposed beneath the radiance.

!

Confronted by the brilliance blooming from Gwen, the densely packed, seemingly endless compound eyes instantly shut. They released piercing shrieks that became death-dealing soundwaves, sweeping through every corner of space and stirring another enormous wave in the surging "seawater" as it crushed toward the blinding light.

Yet whether