"....!" Blukan slowly stepped backward, not because he truly believed retreating would somehow allow him to escape this situation, but because it was an instinctive reaction deeply engraved into living beings.
A reaction born purely from fear.
Blukan, who had once believed he erased this sensation from his heart forever after surviving countless wars and disasters, was trembling uncontrollably at this very moment.
Waiting until the nest arrived, allowing them to clash against the space beasts of the current nest, then escaping amidst the resulting chaos? What foolishly naïve dreams those now seemed to be.
Especially those twenty irrationally massive creatures lingering silently in the rear of the approaching swarm... their entire focus was locked onto him alone with terrifying precision. They did not care about anything else surrounding them. They did not care about the equally gigantic beasts circling around him at all.
