The Patchwork Fantasy Nation (Part Two)

The various computer screens on the walls were still switching rapidly, but there was no time to examine them in detail.

Everyone around the conference table merely stared at the computer screens, their expressions blank.

Screen Eight: The Poor District South of the City

In the empty footage, there seemed to be nothing but panicked crowds. Every now and then, someone would suddenly collapse and die without a sound. But after the surveillance mode switched, it became clear that gigantic tentacles would occasionally bore up from beneath the ground, snatch someone, and plant a seed inside them. New tentacles would then grow and spread toward even more people in the distance.

This should have been an ideal area for the mutation to spread, yet a group of mysterious figures in black armor appeared. Plasma guns in hand, they quickly formed a circle, disrupted the spread, completely eradicated the tentacles, and soon vanished from the footage.

Screen Nine: The Daylight Church Gathering

A group of priests and believers were lining up and rushing toward the toilets. Some people had even started fighting over them.

Screen Ten: Kindling City's Main Thoroughfare

Countless residents who should have been seriously carrying out the sacrifices, along with some of the believers, were running through the streets with bags in hand, robbing people.

Screen Eleven...

Screen Twelve...

Even the Hell Designer gradually fell silent.

He was someone bold enough to design Hell, as well as the inscrutable expert in Mental Mutation in the eyes of Kindling City's higher-ups. When it came to abilities that many people had never even heard of, he only needed to observe a few details to deduce the type of ability his opponent possessed, then analyze it at the fastest possible speed and provide targeted advice. But even now, there