What a Coincidence

The new breed of monster was far stronger than Su Tianqing had anticipated.

Even against the fully assembled Hyacinth Squad, it had held out for over ten minutes within its deployed domain. In the end, it exposed an opening under Hyacinth's relentless, unreasonable assault and was blasted apart by a headshot from Iris's Magic Cannon.

It had to be said that even Hellcat, watching from the sidelines, had high hopes for this brand-new "domain" ability—though most of that hope centered on the entertainment it could provide—

"This ability was extracted from the residual magic power in that abandoned Dark Domain building last time. I call it the 'Dark Domain,'" Su Tianqing briefly explained.

"The monster's strength has been set at the current level of a Zodiac Witch. They're elite units I can barely mass-produce with my current abilities, but they can't develop tactics as mature as a Zodiac Witch's. They're more like... big toys."

"Their greatest value lies in this domain ability. Simply put, the specific range covered by a [Domain] is closely tied to the creature's magical strength. The more magic power it has, the larger and stronger the domain becomes, and the more 'rules' it can temporarily influence."

"I see... It does seem somewhat similar to Garuda's ability..." Fenrir said.

After tonight's new monster experiment ended, a rigorous post-battle review began on the Villain Rooftop. They studied footage from cameras positioned at various angles, observing the entire process by which the Hyacinth Squad investigated the monster's domain and found a breakthrough.

"Hyacinth and the others have developed a very mature combat system." Watching the Hyacinth Squad's seamless coordination and crisp close-quarters movements in the footage, Hellcat gave them extremely high praise. Her overall evaluation was: solid.

"After encountering a monster's domain ability for the first time, they only