Changes and... Suspected Third Tier?

"Most likely a visitor from outside the box—"

As the boundless, ferocious black flames began to contract once more, gradually taking the form of a "black sun" hanging at the edge of the sky, it briefly confronted another tiny, indistinct "black dot"—

In this place that had practically received the same "glass-burning" treatment as an extermination order, amid the vast ruins of buildings and this lifeless wasteland, two bespectacled men who looked as though they had been cast from the same mold, along with a woman, suddenly appeared out of nowhere where a shattered building should have stood.

—As if they had been standing there all along.

Both men stared expressionlessly at the area that had been burned into a "white plain" in the blink of an eye, literally leaving the sky three feet higher, without the slightest visible reaction.

The young woman standing behind one of them was equally silent, as if she too had been infected by the "three-nothings virus."

Only the two compact pistols still steadily aimed at one another, along with their already damaged eyeglass frames, revealed what the two sides had been doing before arriving here.

"The actual information characteristics are incomplete. Comparison suggests they are most likely human, but there are no traces of a Gene Lock. Especially when they descended, part of the causality was obscured, and this plane's information volume experienced a subtle surge. That should be a sign of additional growth—"

Adjusting his glasses, the bronze "bell" floating above one man's head trembled slightly. The jade-disc-shaped object above the other man's head responded without a word, sending a strand of light into it in perfect coordination!

In the blink of an eye, beneath vast illusory scenes, everything before them was almost pushed into revealing traces of "flowing upstream"!

But it was