There were too many monsters.
The farther they went, the more monsters appeared.
Before long, Asaka Akie stopped. The entire plain filled her field of vision, packed with monsters as far as the eye could see.
There was no way to estimate how many there were.
Millions? Or tens of millions?
There probably weren't even this many monsters in all of Area 11.
Asaka Akie was even beginning to panic. She realized that the monsters were gradually filling the remaining empty spaces across the plain. At this rate, they would eventually run into Machine City.
And Machine City had no walls. Its population of over a hundred thousand wouldn't even make a ripple amid such a vast horde of monsters.
Would monsters radiating evil from every pore really coexist peacefully with humans?
Asaka Akie finally understood what Izanae had meant by her warning.
She immediately turned around and flew back to Machine City as fast as she could.
A few minutes later, Asaka Akie arrived back at Machine City.
Chaos still gripped the city. Many rampaging monsters had fled into its streets, killing and setting fires wherever they went.
The biggest problem was that the monsters from the Iron-Cast Palace were mixed in with them, making it difficult for the city's armed forces to act. They couldn't just kill them all, could they?
Takeda Masumi led all the city's Cyborgs, police, and soldiers, but could only just barely contain the situation. They planned to round up the monsters that had scattered in all directions once things settled down.
As for why the sky had suddenly changed color—why it had gone from a clear day to night, with so many auroras appearing—she didn't have the energy to think about it.
Asaka Akie flew straight between the city's skyscrapers as soon as