Hurried footsteps could be heard all across the third institute. The sound arms as well as bright e lights filled the entire pce.

  Tap.

  Tap.

  Tap.

  The sounds of heavy footsteps turned everything silent for a moment. For some reason, everyone looked in the dire of a man. Moments ter, everyone resumed their work.

  heless, this se was remembered by all of the persohat came across Aleph—

  Like a being that looked down on ants.

  ‘It’s a clutch…’

  At this moment, his Sphere Boundary was w full-time. He was able to switch off his ICHOR aurn to his normal looks. But, it couldn’t be said for the aura he gave off.

  The [Diary of a Magus] gave him Merlin’s perspective—a half-human half-incubus magi—which resulted in a rather “inhuman” presence. Add to that Albion, the legendary dragon who died during his digging session to arrive at Avalon…

  Aleph hurried to the ‘trol room’. There, dozens of researchers went into wartime mode.

  The third institute, other than researg mechs, has the responsibility to send out remotely-trolled mechs to the MOTH bases. Thus, it also doubled down as a semi-military base of sorts.

  Einstein sah. She briefly fell silent before tinuing her expnation.

  “We’re not mistaken. The first institute firmed it.”

  She paused once again.

  “There are a total of four pces with the same iy as a major eruption.”

  “...”

  Everyone fell silent.

  Each major eruption has an iy of 2,000 HW at the very least. That was enough to turn aire city into a pce filled with undead, what more of the honkai beasts that would’ve appeared.

  The fourth major eruption was an example. It was able to affect the Far West te degree. The city where the herrscher came from turned into a pce filled with undeads and honkai beasts. These two entities slowly spread to surrounding areas.

  Even now, the up isn't finished yet.

  “How is this possible..? It was logically improbable..!”

  “No. We… We might have uimated the honkai.”

  “It doesn’t follow any known patterns. This is our wake up call.”

  Everyohin the room felt extremely heavy.

  “What about the Herrscher?”

  Aleph’s voice resou this moment.

  “No sightings were found as of now. There are currently fighter jets headed to scout these four areas.”

  The huge s indicated four areas struck by a major eruption. Two of them are in the Far East while the remaining two are in the Far West. One of them was he Mu ti, almost toug its borders.

  “Fire MOTH has decided to arm the entire world. The manpower is currently directed to these four sites.”

  Einstein carried on with her expnation.

  ‘Sundown Alley… where is it…’

  Aleph’s eyes danced around the map before log in one of the sites.

  ‘The fifth herrscher.’

  For a moment, he hesitated whether this was the right choice. Four eruptions akin to a major eruption all at once was unheard of. He estimated that the damages brought by it was at least the same iy as Sirin's 4,000 HW eruption when she possessed two Gems. That one was already a global crisis.

  He hadn’t even interfered much with the future yet. Only one possibility stood out from his mind.

  {Ahere is more than 71% likelihood it was caused by our visit to the white space.}

  ‘...I’m owing up the sequenow.’

  Aleph had never regretted his visit to that white space. If not for it, he wouldn’t have awakened Great Sage. The differeween having her and not having her was far te. He wouldn’t have attempted to do numerous things—as well as speed up development iher projects—without her.

  Just then, the phone in his pocket vibrated. He immediately took it out and saw the caller.

  “I’ve heard everything.”

  Mei’s slightly raspy voice came from the other side.

  {Hum. we talk about the four pces?}

  “I’ll go to the City of Justice.”

  {Alright. I will… hum… inform others of it.}

  Soon, the line was closed.

  ‘She’s pushing herself again… but we have no choiow.’

  It has been three months since he st went out. Aleph’s current strength has beeed repeatedly ihe training spaces. All he cked were real-life experiences against honkai beasts and the likes.

  ‘...We have no choice but to fight.’

  *****

  Honkai.

  Such a fn term domihe entire world. Since Fire MOTH decided to publicize its existence as well as that of honkai beasts and undead, the world was turned upside-down.

  Panic buying became rampant, often turning into most supermarkets going out of stock. Gover offices are stormed in tister lises funs. However, there are sequently hundreds of thousands of uered guns that spread all over the world.

  Even the Far East, a pce where gun trols were strict, gued by this problem.

  heless, there are some advantages of making the existence of honkai a public thing—arms, protocols, drills, and so on.

  What they couldn’t have expected was it’d be put into use a few months after that annou.

  Beep-!

  Beep-!

  Beep-!

  All the eleic devices within a city emitted a loud arm. The most promi ones were the speakers petallic poles.

  [This is an annou. Currently, a major honkai eruption has been…]

  Buzz-!

  Moments ter, the strong honkai energy iy interfered with numerous signals. It was akin to a huge wave that crashed to a shore. Everything iy fell silent at that time.

  Bam-!

  Beep-!

  Everything tihe drivers who lost sciousness bumped into each other. A tank trucker collided with several vehicles, causing it to explode. It was a rea. The normally funing city turned chaoti less than five seds.

  Explosions followed . When humanity fell unscious at the same time, its impacts were far-fetg.

  Throughout the chaotic city, only one pce remained fully funal.

  “DEF 2 was decred before the line was cut!”

  “Major Anna, your orders?”

  A gray-haired girl wearing the badge of a major stood in front of the and room. She was the steady major who was responsible for this branch.

  Just then, one of the personnel saw a sharp increase of honkai energy. An itchy feeling spread from her gloved hand.

  “Huh..? We are…”

  Thud-!

  It didn’t take long before nearly everyone ihe and room fell unscious. Despite Fire MOTH’s soldiers having a det honkai resistanpared to normal people, most of them stood no ce within the ter of the honkai eruption.

  The only one who remaianding was Anna’s adjutant. She bnkly sed the room before her gaze turned into her major’s back.

  At this moment, her heart fell into a cold celr. The sense of dread enveloped her very being, making known her death was not far away.

  “Major..?”

  Her words were met by a cold gaze, devoid of any humanity.

  Thud-!

  The ones who ‘survived’ soon followed in others’ footsteps.

  “To destroy… all of humanity.”

  She had the urge to turn her surroundings into a nd of frost, though she wasn’t able to do so.

  Someone was still fighting against these urges…

  “Human.”

  Wheterfly’s wings flutter, the future ges thereafter.