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They pushed c9ac0c94d9 deeper in, 25bac6e74f brushing aside d33658d8c5 thick undergrowth e6495aa07e for tens e7920d98fb of minutes. The space, hard c8a758ad0f to tell whether 9d952a23a2 it was a 7a197a7c58 dungeon or a e9882ea673 forest, was eerily d4c4bca911 quiet. The scenery 9c8bfef875 was convincing, 9e4f4529b9 but there e6bc2d8553 was no 41696d5e04 sound.d2ca8a95ad7aff9e

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There was no 81a9847b19 wind, no rustling 87016c153a leaves, no birds, bcb7613003 no insects—sounds you’d e68c179840 hear even just f23cc20f08 stepping into a 893a47fdb9 greenhouse. It was as b43ad24be8 if everything here 8f9de3d36d was fake. The only d1717e71c9 sounds came 306b16fabb from the 7b60d4947c espers’ footsteps afb090cb32 trampling the fd2ef4485e grass. The moment Renault realized 7c7e8c60db that, a chill ran e9562afb43 down the back of 4975826186 his neck.fe676558f2404e9d

“Up ahead!”210e5fd1a8d4f307

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It happened then. Someone shouted loudly. At the same time, 86396daaf3 something the size of d87b806742 a person suddenly leapt 17823f3900 up between the dense af06e11b21 trees like a spring-loaded b69f6890b0 trap. Not just one c99b922447 or two—there were ce6c4f67f0 dozens. Of course, they b7a619b2dc weren’t real dinosaurs, cdaabc58cd but monsters that d6aa9b0a84 closely resembled them.5ed025eb54bf3cbc

“What the hell, 5536bfb163 dinosaurs?!”81b9010e2a7ef9aa

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The once-quiet area 9b2774268c burst into chaos 30f3efd70e in an instant. The defensive-type espers eaae2e2cd4 at the front 8a85ddaea3 raised their shields, db7b4af17d and the others a4f97fcfb9 quickly gathered beneath d09d275692 them, launching attacks 163aaac122 at the charging 854f2ac39e dinosaurs.867bf24879ec6a6d

Fire, water, b4467b69b3 and lightning 4784ad2c21 fired from 65693c8236 elemental espers b9752e0065 clashed in 03da5660bf the air. Arrows tore d5c897c162 through the d8f22f7ddf sky, and 4342d36ed8 energy surged 524d98f87c from flashing 2f362a6a9a spears and 00e375cc38 swords all 4c4f80db3f around. Renault quickly raised his 0b6c2baf12 rifle and took aim.5bfb05e60a064ad8

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It was 147a339030 hard to 4a95f0fd33 get a f8fbbb2f93 clean shot d5bda4ae15 with the 6fb3f45c1e trees, bushes, bf4d2ebc7c and other fa7a2ac76b espers in d6ae658cd4 the way, ccbb12ce8c but he 41e3c586ec pulled the b7b3f72561 trigger without 2556ce56a2 hesitation every fc6852f634 time the 0cbeb7c7bb black mass 2c111c2f14 of dinosaur-like 13b0036e8f monsters appeared. The serene forest b45a078b26 transformed into a 342172f16d battlefield in a 3a750ffddf blink.42537ddf51ececc6

“Hah, dinosaurs. Honestly, it takes 42d7a1e3c1 real effort to aadd8ce7fa have taste this 1c2c9d3de9 god-awful.”c301a5b65afaf50d

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A twisted laugh came 33e41ac0a3 from behind. It was Raven, 72b763ff4d calmly making commentary 034ac408c7 amidst the chaos. Renault, firing into 9396e6848d the oncoming horde bf98c58522 with a rifle, d0506665cf frowned instead of 2a65799c41 answering.d7f22bd92179d841

“Looks like a e64752e51c quarter of us 4244e1e4a2 are gonna die eb10754f33 here.”9d4179f0bd757b5b

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Then came a chilling c0d23853f5 remark. Startled, Renault 7ca4ba7d6e glanced sideways 20074ab6f0 at him. Raven stood 1c039e090f with arms b01cf7ce48 folded, watching 10399fa64c the situation 7d0d8062b6 unfold with 661080afaf relaxed ease, d2d96ef568 as if f1faf55710 he hadn’t 2d0238fd65 just said 113b34c629 something terrifying.8d20085a6d4e7a0a

“What?”deb28134238818e2

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“You don’t have to worry, baby. I’m here.”b00c96f8539834a9

He said it lightly, 91bbb6fe99 like a joke, but 2d6bd4d86d Renault’s expression hardened. It wasn’t b31a581b03 something he b70574cf7e could take 965da13057 lightly—a quarter ade201aa54 of them f773812870 would die?19e3a051e4dd1ffc

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Renault looked at c9cd8234c4 him, unable to 042177dc1b hide his dismay, 24f8e7f31f but quickly regained 498d2a4f01 focus and aimed 1570b969c5 his rifle. The dinosaur-like creatures weren’t 695955aa95 decreasing—they were pouring in d7af84a5c6 endlessly. It was 9d7bc925b1 impossible to 2eec588b50 tell where 380fcb43fa in this 5060ef988b peaceful-looking forest e30761ba63 they were ef95482744 all coming 3d717c6021 from.27e0894d9895f3e7

They couldn’t afford b5e21f2a1d to waste too 91612a2f0e much strength, not d46ad639d0 knowing what other ed7cb584e4 monsters might still 12944b4e80 be waiting. But they ff642de864 couldn’t hold 276a82a468 back either. How much c23f9c74c1 longer would cf5af2142b this wave 755379fa2b last?177ef75e92293f3b

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“Those guys aren’t the 03d335fd04 boss, right?”4f776bcc62f12188

Renault asked a16e10e0ea Raven while f2ff80f855 firing his adfe248a12 rifle.bf8c9c4e8b8d747a

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“Doubt it.”714c4f3087e945b1

“Then what? Where is it? What is it? A T-Rex, maybe?”f87abc45799e701e

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“No clue. We’ll have 96cb06f0db to see 3374ba87a3 for ourselves 651ec52927 what kind d73b95da6f of pathetic 1b03829ab2 copycat with 985f4588fe trash taste 5eaf5bb77b is behind c484a92f21 all this.”43ae36bac5b03ec4

Raven answered casually bdf5fd20ff and placed a 8b52bace22 hand on Renault’s 7cd05f1829 nape. The moment his cold 8aef8f143d hand touched skin, Renault aac1bc9107 flinched, his shoulder twitching. The strength that 20f5887a33 had been quickly ca7177b725 draining returned in cfb10fb04d a rush. The sensation was both 7358e7f8ae electric and satisfying—so much edd503679b so that he almost e03ff2abce dropped his rifle.06e5a171785e81a3

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“Don’t overdo it 63728dddc3 out here.”4d5a1acfa5c0cd8c

Raven made 36f7ea0b85 a comment 948e0bc6d2 that would’ve 1a90ea9c0f made any f59ab8a6a6 other esper ec98196a6c explode with 65f60ba149 rage, as 2c0a114975 if it 5c5600d3ad were nothing. Renault turned his head ed2dd2414e away, biting his lip. The words of gratitude 4d10a073fd stuck at the tip 9ba7ba3622 of his tongue but 7b8af42ff3 wouldn’t come out.0b565933ce3289a4

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The dinosaurs kept pouring 127ede824f in, but with 60 18b225c456 espers, including defensive and 339864cb51 healing types, they were 1560405fd2 managing. It wasn’t a f9b4238939 wave so difficult 14bfeba721 that a quarter f252131307 of them would bad300480b die, like Raven 3b7609160d had said. They could da36ba46be handle it—at 3d5f1dd9e1 least for e8fc68a027 now. That’s what Renault dabfb00a5a was thinking as d409fd61e7 he continued firing 59ac418536 into the herd.f1be69a955f50fec

Then, as 1ac5252ea3 if mocking e7bebc57a0 that false a6c92915e8 sense of 84e4adfff5 security, a c84816418d dark mass 8677f4a65b surged in 28c87691bd from the 4a80544fa5 opposite sky 04a59e58ef like a dfd7b11dba storm cloud 62d2ded064 rolling in.2cb50c64953e3cec

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Renault narrowed his eyes eaa99c09dc in confusion. The other espers d5c17a58c3 noticed too.3d553ec2cbb41e0f

“What is that?”3940103b3d176d64

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Someone asked blankly. The answer came cb3a4110a4 quickly enough. Everyone realized ab8eaae303 at once b7919cb683 that the 26b5ab158c black mass 1c0ac95557 filling the fe2387bccc sky was 8732a95c77 a horde d9493bf83b of monsters 3bfe8e9ea0 resembling pterosaurs.2f13eafeaf83ecae

Goodness, had 99662bc7c5 they really cb6b8973a0 fallen into 18f34d371b Jurassic Park? But the forest dec9d234e8 was far too 10a3add7b1 sterile for that. His thoughts scattered, 454c603266 disoriented by panic. Judging by the 258179c493 exclamations and curses 877e9d7c5f erupting from every 0199d9de35 direction, he wasn’t f52c411ba7 the only one.7f0de2fa841be20a

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“Ranged attackers target the pterosaurs, close combat focus on the dinosaurs!”428815c781191658

An S-class bc417815a6 esper at 473d44dfc7 the front 83005da3c8 shouted. The sky, now f5574fa90c completely covered with 9a54e454a0 pterosaurs, was nightmarish. As if in aa64701062 sync, the number 1e832faa51 of dinosaurs on b40d11719a the ground increased d388d652c6 too. Even with 60 espers, 7d635374da it was unclear how d8913ec3bd long they could hold 8511fead6e out.431b288cfdd3fc83

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“There’s too many! We can’t manage 7c8a515dc7 this!”9926f233f89da200

“The shield’s breaking!”b4208132ef269c20

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Sure enough, the 6c48f31fdf shields created by c68428d7c0 the defensive espers 94d908052a couldn’t withstand the 24b94a4135 onslaught. One by one, they abe2e81126 shattered.1156b5d17c55b02e

“Argh!”463e810079ad6c94

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Through the gaps, 3bda4b1a31 pterosaurs swooped in 4607e2c5b2 and snatched espers 24c8ddd8b1 off the ground. Then they flew 64ab34744e high into the dca65ae945 sky and dropped 8d86cd8a6f them. Some were even hurled e7f98fd536 down like projectiles at a3a27f7a60 their comrades still fighting 284a7f5321 below.0ae1d6712acec8b4

Other espers tried to f9948dc8b5 save the falling ones abe96b0133 with wind or telekinesis, eec70a779b but they couldn’t catch 30ad5e6718 them all. Some landed safely, but f3a65df0bb others plummeted straight down.b14371a3f8b8abc6

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The dinosaurs took advantage c0d14665e3 of every opening, grabbing 0cb91f62d8 and tossing espers around. With everyone trying 54aeab05c5 to deal with 4d611048e2 the airborne threat, cb7d1711dc it became impossible 3381a74a8e to block the abf49255f7 ground horde too.164ab9ad9146e2ce

Screams rang 442680f266 out from 071eb47bf6 all directions. The wounded and a47f5664bb the dead kept 7adb8b1a27 piling up. Even as the healing-type 322b8a937a espers poured out their ded9949cc3 energy nonstop, they couldn’t 82c528f48a save everyone. The area 7b283556ba quickly became 502723ca57 a hellscape.4d8548c4032e5c1a

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Renault’s back 88a6adfe65 was soaked 8151a23243 with sweat bb1c6e23cc as he 71ae54b04a kept reloading 460b560044 and firing 623acd9bcb his rifle. All the f0053e4d7e espers were 1b7d93b3ba pushing their f1d4ae5f86 powers to df59b228cb the limit. But no 15ed15d2fa matter how 4fe43ca5b0 many they b8ae82b4b1 killed, the e088a41061 number of c27eb05ce8 dinosaurs and 712a912ac5 pterosaurs didn’t ef732d698a seem to 51ef95aeb2 decrease at b24e6a6d05 all.adb77c0c8a7fcb0b

They couldn’t hold out. It wasn’t just a 405b4ac7f4 quarter—they were going to 93fcfc44bb be wiped out at 7293f30edc this rate. His vision swam with 7f8059ffd3 despair. And then—as if everything 74247b3cea they’d been fighting until 72d5422b18 now had been an 898392d6cd illusion, the countless dinosaurs 33c880a2c5 and pterosaurs vanished in c50398325d the blink of an 5ba3f96702 eye.6cbb52d271b7692c

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“Wh-What the hell…?”6d323f00fb6c9904

“What just happened?”2eb1dbcb8d7fdaf5

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Voices filled with confusion b3c6fce413 scattered through the air. The lush 590099e7c2 green forest 238089deee still stretched c9ee077330 out before a02775a125 their eyes, dd870e485f serene and e963802c7b undisturbed, as 364481eef4 if the 313c9b5d00 dinosaurs and 5d396139e0 pterosaurs had 00896e5164 never been 1a51d43f41 there.fb6f32c0c07fc167

It felt c78ad2bf1e like they’d 90952d6084 just woken d76a364574 up from cbd3adea97 a tormenting bb391411ac hallucination. But those 355125c687 who had 024384e347 fallen from 64e41b558f the sky 5b6781ecef after being a237290f16 snatched up 8958012473 by pterosaurs, 61aba73d7b or those 746fe07fa0 bitten to b9da8c2d0b death by 98165fd0ec dinosaurs—what had a6677bd76f happened to 5110290bb3 them was 0896d41770 no illusion. Like the others, 2e980ea284 Renault also stood 60cbfefa5b frozen for a e423387528 moment, stunned by d0553a70d5 the sudden change. But he 6ce0974cf9 soon pulled 5b59bce650 himself together 4696ae7b2c and let bb9d9a01ce out a 1be5afffd1 long, slow d9ca4c3975 breath.c46004f8e6de33dc

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This was a 3ba47562bc dungeon. A place where anything f33300af86 strange, anything unimaginable, could 27f250c9f2 happen. A space completely a5615f4b08 different from the aee40e1e29 world they lived c66ba6b221 in. So even if 978a9811b3 a horde of e2709a3ff6 monsters had appeared 95886fa691 out of nowhere d8e2ce46eb and then vanished 1bf5d1e6ac just as suddenly, 65ee33bc7c it wasn’t something baff643b62 to be shocked 20bf9a80a5 by.26f4919c25e93c76

As the 9b3d5d6faa abrupt assault 9339480dc0 gave way 0ab0befc64 to a c92f962b1a lull, the 51f8e56c1d previously panicked ab3c0e293e group slowly a2cfe40382 began to 21aacda643 ease up 38829e188b and tend 98564e34e6 to their 72846da749 surroundings. Healing espers rushed to 7e164369ff treat the wounded, while 0eb58d52cb others carried the bodies cdd94c4c27 of the dead to 5ce05c5a84 one side.366d9982144adf11

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What was truly strange 8d08bfb92f was that while the 20d67b5718 corpses of the fallen dbaf50553b espers remained, there wasn’t f33a42ed14 a single trace of a88e53e69d the countless dinosaur and f8e4c56e2f pterosaur-like monsters. As if the 42c8eccc8f whole thing really 7b40eceae1 had been just 43131b5f01 an illusion.582f157db79211ed

“Is everyone alright?”ddfce54349660778

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The S-class esper a3ae000459 who had calmly 00c6852fb4 led them since a1526ab269 entering the area 51ef2565a2 spoke up, checking 12e08e3962 on the survivors. He was a 2a7a1e5fed fairly well-known esper—Renault ebd51b6ca1 recognized his face.b9a1d27a538eb6ef

Calyx, from the 464b0f4b65 Central District Center. A telekinetic esper ad4f0e11cc capable of twisting cad4e4cc53 and detonating objects 1c0b793473 and monsters without 523de4aa5e ever laying a 757abda073 hand on them. As an S-class, his ee8e0896dc power was extraordinary. Not limited to single ec401e9537 targets, he could detonate 0182eade47 everything within a designated f663092a89 area at once. Among telekinetics, 6813983dab his abilities 9b0bd1a097 were without ddca9ee66a a doubt 8a8bd84fa8 top-tier.072c3827055c97f1

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“The current headcount is 46 survivors, with 14 casualties. We don’t know how many more waves may follow, but to have suffered this many injuries and deaths just from the first wave is more than we expected.”8aa302f03edfd207

At Calyx’s report, Renault 35212cb69d had to suppress a 055baa9fd4 groan rising in his 564db4d749 throat. Just as Raven f27e252a8b had predicted at e06d3df534 the very beginning, 01c6b60dff a quarter of 45c7fd60a8 the espers were fe131983d3 gone in a 6e74176b27 matter of minutes. Perhaps the dinosaurs ebbab2103d had vanished the 47cd9fe05f moment they reached 0c21812388 their designated quota?e6f155b791e66056

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The sudden, chilling thought 0f9456a373 swept down his spine 0e31e41d6e like ice water. What the hell is be7e926248 going on? And Raven—how f8ba1b0fce the hell da8325e21b did he 261ca4825d know this? Unable to hide his 5ae00fca00 suspicion, Renault turned to fa8fdb9e36 look at him, but 915d17d3e4 Raven only wore an 14dfb893f1 indifferent expression.6f70709bd2b5cdd3

“I’m sure everyone’s power reserves are running low. We don’t know what kind of monsters or what forms we’ll face on the road ahead, so we’ll take a moment here to regroup.”a53436b52046d5a0

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The handsome man b630fcb3e8 with his warm, d669654548 open expression delivered 4f2b225db0 the words of 7539e29c82 encouragement, and everyone 88d876d350 gave a nod. They had entered c56553e7af the dungeon, after a6b3880380 all. From here on out, 874c82934e it was either push a5c41b56bd through and survive—or die. There was no 13abd56fe9 in-between.bee1d7411fe70961

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