"What the hell?"
Inside Linyuan City, two members of the Knight Errant Order had been keeping an eye on the situation outside.
But when they saw that "Han Su" was still wandering around the district under his watch, showing no reaction at all to the Eternal Night Church having reached the city, they had already started to feel uneasy.
Then the Shadow Creatures suddenly surged in from outside, and the two could no longer sit still. They sprang to their feet. "What are those lunatics who worship Jörmungandr up to?"
"Going by their usual habits, they should have started probing Linyuan City's defenses by now."
"And yet they're holding back. Instead, they've sent in this horde of Abyssal Creatures?"
"..."
Experience told them that the Abyssal Creatures' attack didn't fit the Eternal Night Church's style. But they were certain that the Church's higher-ups had arrived outside the city. No matter what, then, the chaos had to be connected to them.
The trouble was that, by some cruel coincidence, the Abyssal Creatures were charging straight toward the sector under their responsibility, throwing their plans into disarray.
The sector they had originally assigned to Han Su was in the northwest corner of Linyuan City, where residential neighborhoods were densely populated.
The Eternal Night Church needed ordinary people's dreams to attack a city, so the mysterious organization would certainly choose to infiltrate from that direction.
In other words, though Han Su's sector seemed to have been assigned at random, he was inevitably going to be the one facing the enemy head-on.
But now the Eternal Night Church had changed its approach and summoned Abyssal Creatures to attack the city directly. Their plan had fallen apart, and the two had gone from sitting back and watching the show to bearing the brunt of the