His eyes went rigid, unable to comprehend it.
His body seemed to have been instantly cowed by something, unable to move. The fear came from the unknown.
Just as he had gone all out to finally defeat a powerful enemy, the crisis resolved and the mission completed, relaxing at last, he suddenly saw something from a realm humanity had never reached appear out of nowhere.
It was utterly unrelated, beyond all common sense—a reversal from the clouds to the abyss.
Fang Ran's mind plunged into tremendous shock and chaos!
Impossible! Why? What is going on!? A humanoid Numbered Monster appeared? A realm humanity has never reached...
It had appeared in the real world!?
In that instant, his mind was filled entirely with such thoughts. The cold female figure standing in the darkness, the red cracks splitting from her blood-red eyes, and the words displayed by the system interface—
All proved her identity beyond any falsehood, making Fang Ran feel ice-cold from head to toe.
Unlike ordinary Numbered Monsters, humanoid Numbered Monsters possessed power and concepts far too strong. Without physical bodies, "they" could at most appear in the Narrow Space.
They simply could not enter reality!
A-8 being close to entering reality had already required a massive crisis like World War I or World War II, catastrophes that swept across the world. That was a being from a realm humanity had never reached, one that had never truly appeared.
So what kind of disaster did A-7, which had already entered reality, represent!?
Thinking back to the Queen's great feat of ending two wars a century ago, one reason had been to prevent A-8 from descending into reality. Though his thoughts were in chaos—
Fang Ran could still realize just how unimaginably grave the scene before him was!
The Covenant, Future