Chapter 234: The attack underway
All combat units received their orders at the same time. Apart from the reserve teams stationed across the various districts, every field commander in an area where a target had been pinpointed gave the order to move out.
Across Kyoto, the doors of vehicles that had been waiting for hours swung open, and elite soldiers carrying weapons leaped out of their concealed positions.
Mature soul-possessing spirits were spectral entities, indeed difficult to see with the naked eye. But parasitized Spirit Mothers still looked human, making them much easier to capture. As long as the host was not killed outright, the host's body and soul would turn from a protective shelter into a cage, briefly trapping the juvenile soul-possessing spirits inside.
The Spirit Mothers would then be delivered to the nearest observation post, where experts from the Dawn Association would exterminate the spirits. Afterward, the corpses would be sent to Special Security Team headquarters for the Crystal Ball Witch to perform divination.
There were also mobile tactical teams, each of which necessarily included Dawn members. They would continually patrol their assigned areas, searching for Spirit Mothers that had already left their homes that night or providing support to the nearest tactical squad. Thanks to the Dawn members' powerful sensory abilities, a single team could cover a very large area.
In the tactical operations hall at Special Security Team headquarters, at the very moment the order to begin the operation sounded.
Su Su curled her right hand into a claw and plunged it into the cage of magic power. Her hand, coated in seething magic power, seized the revolting soul-possessing spirit.
Whoosh!
Incorporeal flames blazed to life in an instant.
"Aah...!" A piercing shriek rang out. The soul-possessing spirit sounded like a woman in pain and