Bang!
A flying-type Esper caught him, his gaze fixed warily on the Mutant Golden Eagle in the sky.
"It's not just the Mutated Beasts on the ground. Even the skies have joined forces against us?"
This was something they had never expected, but reality had always been unpredictable. All they could do was face this cruel reality.
The city's artillery fire continued, but the Mutated Beasts on the ground were no longer their only concern. There were also the Mutant Birds in the sky, staring greedily down at them.
One powerful Esper after another stepped out from the crowd, coordinating their attacks against the Mutant Birds in the sky.
On the ground, as increasingly powerful Mutated Beasts appeared and human artillery became less and less effective, with the beasts drawing ever closer to the city, some Espers shifted their targets and began resisting the approaching Beast Tide.
Third Sequence Espers joined the battle at this time, swiftly harvesting the lives of Mutated Beasts across the battlefield.
As for the Second Sequence, they temporarily conserved their strength. Their enemies were those Mutated Beasts of the same Second Sequence level. If they exhausted themselves now dealing with ordinary Mutant Creatures, they could not possibly win the battles to come.
In the past, human Espers had been stronger than Mutated Beasts of the same level because their intelligence had never been on the same level. But now, Mutated Beasts were becoming increasingly intelligent, and some were no less intelligent than humans.
It was no longer easy to rely on intelligence to defeat Mutated Beasts whose physical constitutions generally surpassed those of humans at the same level.
Therefore, they had to maintain their condition as best they could, lest they lose the coming battle and fail to stop the Beast Tide's invasion.
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