"Time and Space Freeze was broken?"
"...Impossible. There's no way those people in Zero-Sum City could have done this. Something must have happened!"
As Zero-Sum City awoke like a sleeping giant, Miss Ai's instincts stirred up wave after wave of Mental Power surges.
Combined with the endless Shadow Creatures pouring out of the abyss in the middle of Zero-Sum City, the Blockade Positions outside the city, where only eighteen Red-robed Grand Sacrifices remained, suddenly came under enormous pressure. Everyone guarding the Blockade Positions had veins bulging on their foreheads as they gritted their teeth and held on.
At the same time, the eighteen Red-robed Grand Sacrifices drawn from the outer perimeter were faring no better.
In theory, there were eighteen of them, while the incoming survivor squad had only five members. They should have been more than capable of holding them off. Even if they couldn't win quickly, they could at least keep the squad from gaining too much ground.
But the survivor squad focused solely on attacking the people at the Blockade Positions, putting them in an extremely difficult position.
This change was hard to understand, given that this was the World Guardians' most thoroughly prepared operation, with more manpower than ever before.
The secretary coordinating from the rear was already drenched in cold sweat. He stared in disbelief at the chaos in the middle of Zero-Sum City.
The survivor squad was certainly powerful, but they had a known origin.
But what on earth had happened inside Zero-Sum City? How had they managed to break the Time and Space Freeze and unleash such a massive surge?
"They're all so difficult to deal with..."
Caught between attacks from both sides, even the old man in the Zhongshan suit changed expression. He withdrew from the endless Scarlet and came to stand