Australia, inland desert.
A streak of golden light cut across the sky as Ikaris slowly descended into a remote little courtyard, his expression grim.
Two days had passed since he left the Tomo.
Over those two days, he had searched nearly every former Eternals outpost, yet the situation was far from encouraging.
Kingo was dead, killed during the early stages of the outbreak. By the time Ikaris found him, his body had been gnawed beyond recognition.
Clearly, he had been ambushed by some unknown superhuman.
Druid had vanished, along with Sprite and Sersi. The three of them had disappeared without a trace.
After searching more than half the world, Ikaris had finally come to Australia to find the two strongest Eternals warriors besides himself—Gilgamesh and Thena.
Gilgamesh was the strongest of the Eternals warriors, someone who could contend with Ikaris head-on and even suppress him.
Thena, Gilgamesh's companion and the Eternals' goddess of war, could turn energy into weapons and had mastered all manner of mythical combat techniques. She was the third-strongest Eternals warrior.
After the Ancient War ended, the two had retired together to Australia, no longer concerning themselves with anything beyond it.
But now that the world had become like this, what could they be doing?
With that thought, Ikaris stepped forward. Just as he approached the stone house, his expression abruptly changed.
[Danger!]
A warrior's instincts made him sense the threat!
"Whoosh—!"
A piercing shriek tore through the air as an extremely condensed golden energy spear burst through a second-floor window without warning, shooting for his throat from a viciously tricky angle!
Ikaris's pupils constricted. Without a second thought, he kicked off the ground and shot skyward.
The golden spear skimmed past the soles of his feet before burying itself deep in the sand a hundred meters