A Superhuman citizen with the ID sxy1378438 was merely an ordinary member of the thousands of Superhumans remotely monitoring the Star Curtain World.
Although nearly a hundred Superhumans had detected an anomaly at a certain coordinate in the Sky Veil at the same time, it was the first to contact the supervising officer.
"Chief, an anomalous spacetime node has been detected at sealed Sky Veil coordinates 3444, 94847,234. It has distorted the Sky Veil's sealed layer within a radius of fifteen kilometers. If no action is taken, the Sky Veil is projected to collapse in seventeen solar hours. Threat rating: maximum."
"Log it in the Sky Veil database."
The Superhuman chief who received the information gave a brief reply, then ended the communication.
No. sxy1378438 soon discovered that a merit badge had been added to its citizen record. It would have more chances to be promoted in future selection rounds, and excitement—an emotion it had not felt in a long time—welled up within it.
But it did not forget its duty.
After passing through layer upon layer of scrutiny by the information processor, No. sxy1378438 finally logged in to the Sky Veil database. Once it had recorded the anomaly in detail, it learned that this was case number 1417, and received a warning that this was the sixth incident with the maximum threat rating.
As for the previous 1,416 cases, the vast majority were low-threat incidents in which native creatures had tried to escape their talent restrictions and been killed by the Superhuman civilization.
Much later.
It looked at the five other incidents with the maximum threat rating and opened the one closest to it first.
"Gem Bay Peninsula, Storm Continent. Human Academic Circle civilization attempted to launch a hemispherical Flying Device to break through the Sky Veil. The device's