Chapter 61: The Beginning Overture

Morin and the Holy Maiden's second meeting. Although the Holy Maiden had tidied herself up and seemed to have no abnormalities, she still showed some when she saw Morin.

However, apart from Morin himself, the Holy Maiden's outwardly calm expression hid the many thoughts and shyness in her heart, which would not be known to outsiders at all. Even the maid who personally took care of the Holy Maiden didn't know that the Holy Maiden had changed from a girl to a woman last night. And as the chief adjutant of the Tokyo Area, Tendou Kikunojo couldn't be on standby in the Holy Residence at all times, and didn't even have time to stop Morin and the Holy Maiden's second meeting, let alone obstruct Morin from being directly appointed as a special advisor to the Holy Residence by the Holy Maiden.

As for others?

Those high-ranking officials in the government wouldn't stay in the Holy Residence all day doing nothing. The Holy Maiden, at least nominally the supreme leader of the Tokyo Area, didn't need to consult other departments for the small matter of appointing a special advisor, and directly issued the order within the Holy Residence.

In contrast, Morin being directly appointed as a special advisor to the Holy Residence by the Holy Maiden caused some dissatisfaction among the Holy Residence guard. Unfortunately, those guards, mostly composed of offspring of families with connections in the Tokyo Area who hadn't had any actual combat experience or experience fighting Gastrea, weren't taken seriously by Morin at all. After trying a few tricks, he sent most of the outwardly glamorous Holy Residence guard to the hospital to recuperate.

However, before Morin could enter the Holy Residence to tidy up, the missing Relic of the Seven Stars was finally used on the morning of the day after Morin pushed down the Holy Maiden, to summon the Zodiac-level Gastrea!

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"Wooooooohhhhhhh!!!"

The long, drawn-out roar, like the whistle of a train or ship, echoed through the entire Tokyo Area, causing everyone's hearts to tremble.

Off the coast near Tokyo, a terrifyingly huge creature, its height measurable in hundreds of meters, even exceeding the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, let out a terrifying cry while moving its massive, aircraft carrier-like body, beginning to advance towards the Tokyo Area, less than a hundred kilometers away.

Leaving aside its enormous size, the grotesque head of the giant Gastrea, which looked fat and deformed, opened and closed from time to time, emitting huge roars and hisses. Its main body was grayish-brown, covered with countless eyes of all sizes. The sheer number of scarlet eyes was particularly frightening, and its scythe-like tentacles and other bizarre limbs gave this huge Gastrea the style of the evil gods in the Cthulhu mythos.

That colossal creature, the size of a small mountain range and with a volume at sea exceeding tens of thousands of tons of a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, was none other than Scorpio, one of the Zodiac-level Gastrea of Stage V!

"Excellent! This is the Zodiac that can destroy the Tokyo Area, a terrifyingly powerful force!"

On the outer ring of the Tokyo Area, in an area close to the Monoliths, several figures wearing camouflage cloaks stood on a small peak. Looking in the direction where the huge roars could occasionally be heard, waiting for Scorpio to enter the range of their binoculars, the leader looked at Scorpio with a fascinated expression, unable to help but shout madly.

Looking at Scorpio, which evoked descriptions like evil god and monster, the leader didn't show fear or dread like the people around him. His voice sounded crazy, filled with endless desire for power. Judging by the leader's appearance, he would probably be willing to become a Gastrea like Scorpio if it meant gaining great power.

At the leader's feet, the Relic of the Seven Stars, shaped like a child's tricycle toy, rested safely inside an open safe!

"Captain, Scorpio has already been summoned. The rest has nothing to do with us. Let's just take the thing and leave to collect the bounty!"

Seeing their captain's somewhat insane behavior, several mysterious people exchanged glances. One couldn't help but speak.

Although they didn't know how many secrets and contents were behind their captain accepting this extremely high-paying dark web bounty, with some mission details only revealed after arriving in the Tokyo Area, and receiving this Legacy of the Seven Stars safe in the Tokyo Area two days ago, only to discover upon opening it that it was something to summon the legendary Zodiac-level Gastrea, they didn't want to know. Getting involved in such a secret and inside story would definitely lead to their deaths.

However, they had to care about their own lives.

Having already summoned Scorpio of the Zodiac, watching the terrifying Stage V Gastrea, now considered an avatar of destruction, approach, everyone felt their legs go weak, wanting to leave this dangerous place immediately!

"Hehe... you should feel honored..."

The leader, who served as the squad captain, heard his words. The gaze that was fascinated by Scorpio flickered a few times, and then a low, somewhat indistinct voice came from within the cloak.

"Captain?!"

The few were still somewhat confused when they suddenly saw their captain raise his gun and aim it at them.

The muzzle of the gun equipped with a silencer flashed with fire. The few mercenaries wearing equipment but completely unprepared for their captain's madness were all shot dead, with only the fastest reacting ones firing two shots before falling. And their instinctive counterattacks did indeed severely wound their former captain.

"Cough cough..."

The captain threw away the handgun with an empty magazine, clutching his mouth and coughing up blood incessantly.

Bright red blood flowed from the corners of his mouth as if it cost nothing, and several finger-sized bullet holes on the captain's black bulletproof vest were exceptionally conspicuous. The gushing blood and tiny fragments of internal organs proved how severe his gunshot wounds were. Even without a professional doctor's examination, a normal person could tell that such serious injuries, for a non-Initiator ordinary person not immediately sent to a prepared emergency operating room, would definitely lead to death.

However, even with such fatal injuries, the captain still wore a mad smile, looking at Scorpio, which was gradually approaching the Tokyo Area, his eyes filled with a fanaticism like that of a religious zealot:

"Haha! The demon of destruction has arrived!!!"

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"That's... Scorpio?!"

"How is that possible? A Zodiac-level Gastrea, how could it appear without any warning?!"

"It's already less than seventy kilometers away from the Tokyo Area!"..

Just as the Relic of the Seven Stars was opened by a fanatical madman, within the operations headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in the Tokyo Area, the high-ranking officials and supervising officers of the Ministry of Defense happened to see Scorpio appear on the satellite screen. Each of them was scared out of their wits by the sudden bad news.

Stage V Gastrea! A terrifying existence of which only eleven have been discovered worldwide so far, named after the twelve constellations of the zodiac by humans. Since the Gastrea War, they have been the nightmare of humanity, with countless humans dying at the hands of the eleven Zodiac-level Gastrea. And humanity's record against the Zodiac... well, in more than ten years, there are only records of two Stage V Zodiac-level Gastrea being killed by the world's No. 1 and No. 2 Initiators, but the heavy price paid still makes humanity shudder.

Now, the Tokyo Area doesn't have any strong individuals who can deal with Zodiac-level Gastrea. As for ordinary weapons, including nuclear weapons, they don't have much effect on Scorpio, and Stage V Gastrea are also rare terrifying Gastrea that can ignore the magnetic field influence of the Monoliths!

"Quickly notify everyone and Her Holiness the Holy Maiden to prepare for a response!"

In an atmosphere of despair and frenzy, Tendou Kikunojo and other high-ranking officials hurriedly arrived at the Ministry of Defense hall. Then, looking at the chaotic situation, Tendou Kikunojo gave the order.

However, no one noticed that as he looked at Scorpio approaching on the screen, a hint of joy flashed in Tendou Kikunojo's eyes...

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