"What is this...?"
Connie stared blankly at the street. She saw pure white light shooting from the Sun Tower in the city center; she saw countless patrol officers blowing their whistles with urgent expressions; she saw large numbers of Suppression Bureau agents and church clergy converging madly upon the Wisteria Inn...
Faster than all those people was a layer of dazzling, multicolored light.
The colors around them became vivid as jade-green vines pierced through concrete and walls, emerald ivy spreading like veins.
"An Angel Grade item this time?"
Watching the verdant scenery seal off the area, Aaron waved a hand.
The eleven rampaging monsters roared, smashing through walls and leaping into the midst of the investigators and clerics. They fought, slaughtered, devoured... throwing the scene into utter chaos.
Amid the chaos, Aaron saw a tall figure in silver armor arrive at the scene.
He held an absurdly massive two-handed knight's sword and brought it down in a vertical slash at one rampaging monster!
Splat!
Who knew how many runes were carved into the enormous blade? It effortlessly sliced through the monster's hide, which ordinary Beyonders found difficult to even scratch, splitting it neatly in two.
The rampaging monsters were filled with madness and knew no fear.
Just as the armored knight killed that monster, the ground beneath him suddenly collapsed. Two pitch-black monsters sprang out, their scarlet tongues lashing toward the knight's legs.
The knight's greatsword descended, severing one tongue as pus continued to spurt from the wound.
He pressed down with one hand and seized the other tongue.
Spirituality surged, and the formation of a transmutation ritual flashed across his iron gauntlet.
The next moment, that tongue, along with the rampaging monster, was 'transmuted' into a marble statue. The monster's savagery and twisted form were rendered lifelike... no, it