Of course, to the soldiers monitoring the scene, it looked like a solemn tableau from a myth.
Young, powerful, fierce, valiant, heroic, and far too full of energy, Commander Yu still stood in the center of the room, wrestling with an unknown, invisible demon.
A young human, slight of build, stood before the enormous monster, proud and unyielding as a mountain.
If the creature hadn't looked so horrifying, this scene would have made a perfect propaganda poster, wouldn't it?
By now, under Yu Lian's continued efforts, the twisted, hideous mass of energy had begun to emerge bit by bit from the unknown void, revealing its ghastly form. It took shape little by little, condensed little by little, and gradually became an indescribable entity.
It resembled a mass of vine-like tendrils formed from corrupted ripples of radiation. It kept swelling and twitching, while mottled, dreadful halos shifted across its surface.
"What the hell is that?" The technical sergeant behind the monitors rubbed his eyes and dropped to the floor, feeling as though both his eyes and his mind had been contaminated. For a moment, he even wanted to crouch down and cover his head. Then his superior hauled him up by the collar and slapped him hard across the face.
"It's not that bad! Get back to your post!" Colonel Ian Longbottom barked at everyone. "That is indeed a demon from the Void, but it's not enough to crush a soldier's fighting spirit! Pull yourselves together! You're soldiers of the Blue Star Commonwealth. Have some shame! Understood? Show some damn shame!"
The first of the Far Shore Military District's twin-flower enforcers was about forty-five or forty-six, and did indeed have the rough, burly face of a veteran general. Perhaps to make full use of his build and style, the staff in