Only after Shinji had taken his seat again did Alice speak slowly. "We have no way to destroy an Overlord. You should understand that, right?"
"Yeah!"
Shinji nodded lightly.
"Radiance" Alice and "Greedy Wolf" Hengo were already seasoned members of the circle. Even so, they had barely escaped with their lives when faced with the Flesh Puppets created by the Breeding Overlord.
And creating those Flesh Puppets had likely taken only the tiniest fraction of the Breeding Overlord's power.
"No, you don't understand!" Hengo picked up where she left off. "We've tried to destroy Overlords—with super-nuclear bombs, antimatter bombs, magical novas, and everything else. We tried every method we could think of, but none of them worked!"
Obviously,
Alice, Hengo, and the others had already made many attempts.
They had used every weapon they could think of, but without exception, every attempt to destroy an Overlord had failed.
Before an Overlord invaded a world, its true body remained hidden in the vastness of space. Even a Lantern Bearer couldn't detect or lock onto it.
While an Overlord was in the process of invading a world, its true body remained anchored in space. Even destroying the world it was invading at that point wouldn't harm it in the slightest.
Only after an Overlord had completed its invasion and was preparing to devour the world was there even the slightest chance of destroying it.
But by then, the Overlord had complete control over the world it was about to destroy. Any preparations made there in advance would be useless. The only way a Lantern Bearer could theoretically have even the faintest chance of destroying it was to enter the doomed world in person and fight the Overlord.
Shinji didn't interrupt Hengo. He simply listened in silence.
For some reason, he suddenly imagined