[Malindo], an environmental monitoring station beside a large freshwater lake in the Fifth District.
On a dirt slope not far from the station stood a six-person squad, all wearing black cloaks and silver combat masks... Beneath their cloaks were lightweight combat armors that gleamed with a golden sheen.
"This is the last place tonight..."
The silver-masked leader walked to the edge of the slope and seemed to chuckle softly before directly throwing a special subspace capsule down below.
The moment the capsule landed in the dirt, it opened. A massive Black Shadow nearly two meters tall slowly emerged... Under the dim moonlight, it was clearly not a human creature, but a sixteen-legged spider beast with an enormous spider tail.
Its entire body was crimson and hairless, covered in bright red crystal-like exoskeleton.
The strange arachnid beast swiftly crawled toward the nearby monitoring station—its appearance instantly stirred unease among the small animals living by the lake.
Once the arachnid beast had approached the station, it stopped. Its body began rapidly shriveling, but its spider tail was expanding at high speed... Before long, the tail had swollen into an egg-shaped object over three meters tall.
Orange-red light pulsed within it like a beating heart!
Sizzle—!!
At last, the egg-shaped object burst open, spraying large amounts of thick dark-green fluid... What emerged in the end was something resembling an upright, open crab claw.
A spatially warped vortex formed within the "crab claw." Immediately afterward, a strange creature with a large head, narrow tail, wings on its back, and the body of a fleshy worm slowly flew out of the vortex.
At first there was one, then a swarm... like a cloud of bees!
These bizarre flying insects were not large, only about the size of an ordinary adult's fist, but they were extremely