"Five."
"They really reek of a nauseating stench."
Reiner slightly raised his head and looked into the distance. Sensing those auras, he instantly realized who had arrived.
The only ones who could suddenly appear here were the Five Elders or the Holy Knights.
In a plaza at the center of the city, dark purple glowing lines traced mysterious patterns across the ground.
As several teleportation arrays took shape, vast amounts of purple mist surged from them. Within each cloud of mist, a black silhouette vaguely emerged from the formations.
Rumble!
With a clap of thunder, lightning briefly illuminated the dark sky, bringing the silhouettes in the mist into focus.
A gigantic half-human spider with eight long purple legs planted on the ground and pairs of ox horns growing from its head—the God of Science and Defense, Saint Saturn!
A massive monstrous bird with black wings spread wide, a long beak lined with sharp teeth that seemed capable of tearing steel apart—the God of Environment, Saint Mars!
A vicious new wart hog with an especially enormous head, four long curved tusks protruding from its mouth, and rough, spotted skin—Saint Warcury!
A bloated sandworm, long and thick as though formed from countless stacked rings, its bloody maw gaping wide—the God of Agriculture, Saint Peter!
A skeletal warhorse whose upper body was human, clad in a white robe and wielding a long sword, while its lower half was made of ghastly white bones—the God of Finance, Saint Nusjuro!
All five monsters shared one trait: black clouds of smoke coiled around their backs, a characteristic unique to awakened Zoan users.
All of the Five Elders had landed in monstrous forms!
"Those are...?"
"The F-Five Elders?"
The nearby Marine officers stood with their mouths slightly agape, all displaying stunned disbelief and not daring to speak