The brilliant starry sky dimmed, as if seen through a thin veil.
A dusk-colored barrier covered the entire sky above the Ninth Artificial Sky Island, making the night both dangerous and hazy.
The people who saw this scene must have been stunned, right?
Those who realized something was wrong must have been thrown into chaos, right?
Yet the Humanoid Demon Scarabs gazing at this scene from inside the Central Control Building all revealed gleaming eyes one after another. Their expressions were vivid, like warriors about to throw themselves into battle.
Unfortunately...
"It's my turn to work now. Yumiyell, be a good girl and hide, okay?"
Lijielite smiled like a happy little bird.
"...I know."
Yumiyell's expression was filled with displeasure.
For the battle-loving Yumiyell, being unable to fight and being ordered to obediently hide was truly the worst possible instruction.
But this was Jess's plan.
Yumiyell and the others' task was not to eliminate the enemies of the human forces, but to display the power of the Humanoid Demon Scarabs at the Aerial Combat Martial Arts Festival, announce the existence of the Humanoid Demon Scarabs to humanity, make humans fear their power, and force them to submit.
For this reason, in the survival competition, Yumiyell and the others only needed to obtain the conditions for clearing it.
Their true stage was the round-robin tournament held before all of humanity.
Displaying overwhelming power in the round-robin tournament was their mission.
Since that was the case, Yumiyell and the others could not lose their eligibility by wantonly slaughtering humans.
Even though the drones were now almost entirely under their control and no one would know what happened here, there was no guarantee that an accident would not occur. Therefore, their work in the survival competition was over, and they could only honestly