"Flee! Hurry, flee!"
"The city has fallen!!"
The screams tore at the heart.
Shouts and sobs rang out amid the flames.
The fleeing crowd, scattering like headless flies, merged into a dense stream as they desperately fled outside the city.
In less than seven minutes, this Gathering Place, hailed as the safest place in the Ze Mountain War Zone, had been completely overrun.
The defensive firepower that had once given people an immense sense of security was as fragile as paper before the monsters.
No one had expected a Third Order to be this powerful.
The dense stench of blood assaulted their noses, while the air was filled with the scent of sulfur.
In the distance, amid a large stretch of collapsed ruins, a massive Mutant with a head resembling an insect's mouthparts was spewing flame.
The orange-red flame devoured everything.
Large numbers of Awakening users who failed to escape in time were instantly ignited and vaporized.
Flames reaching 3,000 degrees were enough to burn to death any existence below the Third Order.
Even Third-Order Awakeners did not dare face it head-on.
The occasional sparks that drifted down were like flames that corroded the bones. Once they landed on a human body, they instantly burrowed inside. From within to without, even the fat sizzled like an accelerant.
They could not be extinguished or resisted.
Under the night sky, the Safe Zone had already become a sea of fire.
Amid the flames, a young man wielding two axes was frantically dodging the Mutant's attacks.
His face was deathly pale.
Listening to the anguished screams beside him, the Third-Order Awakener was filled with despair and regret.
Why? Why had I been so confident that I had to test my Combat Power? Why had I provoked this monster?
After emerging from the trial