Their battle was like gods descending to earth. The destruction they wrought on their surroundings perfectly embodied the meaning of natural disaster.
They moved too quickly for anyone to make out their figures; their positions could only be judged by the shock waves their battle unleashed.
Everywhere they went, they destroyed everything around them. Vegetation, rocks, and soil were all reduced to fragments finer than river sand.
The battlefield kept expanding, from ten kilometers across to fifty.
Even the three Monsters watching from the sidelines were nearly caught in the shock waves, forcing them to retreat farther.
Seen from above, the ground within those fifty kilometers had become a pockmarked lunar surface, riddled with craters of every size.
Now and then, red beams or green light streaked out, carving straight furrows several kilometers long into the earth.
If they had been fighting in a city, then in less than ten minutes they would have completely destroyed its downtown area.
Humanity's terror of Disaster-Class Monsters was well-founded. They were walking, human-shaped natural disasters.
A little over ten minutes later, the first wave of reinforcements finally arrived.
It wasn't Li Yu. It was Kanzaki Rin, Asaka Akie, and Ye Yuqing.
They were closer, so they had arrived sooner.
Their aircraft hovered high in the sky. The three women stared down at the ravaged ground, speechless for a long time.
A battle at this level was beyond their individual abilities.
Even Ye Yuqing, who had been the most excited before, felt as if a bucket of cold water had been dumped over her.
She knew she couldn't join the fight. This battle was far beyond her, and the slightest mistake could get her killed.
She could only summon Tsukimi Mei and sit back to watch.
Kanzaki Rin was the first to recover. "I'll