Meanwhile...
The main fleet of the Academy Alliance's balloon airships, led by the Sky Fortress, was attacked by absurd creatures whose strength was now worlds apart from the ones they had faced before.
It was already the dead of night.
After detonating the seventh fission-grade Radiation Weapon, Reilo found himself facing a powerful, never-before-seen mutated absurd creature. The [Starfish Touch] Anemo and [Human-faced Spider Mother] Kuriana, who had fallen back earlier, were fighting it together.
A jumble of heart-rending emotional fluctuations filled the air.
The three of them seemed to hear the anguished cries of countless unknown creatures, all mixed together within its body.
The absurd creature looked like a giant lump of mud, its black, muddy body churning ceaselessly.
Its head was a ghastly white orb without any features, like a marble floating in the air.
Reilo had seen it with his own eyes: the Magic Crystal Cannon's attacks, the elite scholars initially assigned to this part of the battle, and even an entire balloon airship had all been swallowed up by the monster's black, muddy body.
Its insides seemed connected to another space, devouring everything that came near.
It reminded Reilo of the Devouring Demon God he had encountered in the past.
But clearly, the two were not the same kind of creature.
Even with [Starfish Touch] Anemo and [Human-faced Spider Mother] Kuriana fighting together, and unleashing multiple high-intensity scholarly attacks in succession, they still seemed unable to threaten the absurd creature.
Since this was the area assigned to the Grand Natural Sciences Academy's fleet, Reilo had naturally come to see for himself.
"Dean, I was only testing it just now. Don't worry, leave this to me!"
Anemo's old face flushed with embarrassment.
As a senior Royal Academician, she admitted that she had never been among the strongest