Early morning, Victoria Kingdom, Allied Special Operations Department conference room.
"Creak!"
As the door was slowly pushed open, the scene inside the conference room was finally revealed.
About ten people sat around the long conference table. There were men and women among them, of different ages and races, each with their own distinct style.
The most eye-catching among them was undoubtedly the silver-haired girl seated to the left of the head seat.
Unlike the other department members, who were either bored or visibly nervous, the girl named Anna Splinter, wearing the Golden Dragon Cup medal and the armband of Special Operations Division Team One's captain, remained calm throughout, exuding an aura that made people unconsciously lower their heads.
This monster had gotten stronger again...
Sensing the terrifying magical fluctuations radiating from her, the young man named Mark Johnson could not help muttering inwardly.
At the same time, he instinctively recalled the scene from two months ago, when the department had just been established. Chosen by the higher-ups as captain of this elite squad, Anna had challenged the other ten of them one after another in the arena and crushed every last one of them with overwhelming superiority.
Even he, known as the "Colossus," whose defense could withstand a direct Magic Cannon bombardment without taking a single step back.
Before her utterly unreasonable, monstrous Formula, he had not even lasted two seconds.
In fact, if a Crown Tier powerhouse had not overseen that training session and intervened the moment they noticed something was wrong.
The grass on his grave might already have grown in by now.
And after receiving the Special Operations Division's training, along with targeted improvements to the members' Formulas under the research of a professional mage team.
She had not only broken through to become a High Mage