Just as Essenkefmei faced a business crisis in reality, the situation on Night Battle's side had likewise fallen into a desperate impasse.
Time rewound to last night, beneath Star Dynamics.
After the chaotic battle between the adjutant, Night Gear, and the illusion realm, with nearly everyone at B-rank and several at the peak of B-rank, an enormous weapon—some product of the dark energy experiment—opened fire amid the Yellow Mist.
A mysterious, unknown weapon of destruction, with terrifyingly massive energy output.
The reason power sufficient to completely erase an entire city block had not brought disaster upon reality—
Was that Fang Ran, Osphia, and everyone else outside the Covenant had all been blasted, along with that attack, to the "reverse side" of the real world!
The moment they crossed some kind of boundary—
With a thunderous roar, as the underground dome and the buildings above it were utterly annihilated, the figures resisting the destructive energy were directly "blown" by the attack into the city center.
After neutralizing the lingering force, Fang Ran's vision finally cleared. At the instant he heard Serica's warning shout—
Flying through the air, Fang Ran's black eyes widened at the boundless sight before him: desolation, destruction, an endless landscape that seemed like the end of the world.
There was no day or night, no color, no living things.
There were only skyscrapers reflecting the ruined state of reality, and Numbered Monsters so countless they could only be described as covering the mountains and plains!
Though he had never been here before, the instant Fang Ran saw this scene that could only be called hell or the abyss—
He understood exactly where he was.
—The Dark World.
He had arrived here for the first time without any preparation, but before he could process his shock, the "residents" of