Michael felt the energy getting denser in the atmosphere. When Michael looked over his shoulder, he noticed a sliver of pure white energy enveloping her body. Gaya's power shot through the roof. Meanwhile, countless mutated beings of all shapes leaped to the ground from higher ground. They were surrounded. The only silver lining was this first wave only contained mutated beings at the Core Formation stage. But Michael sensed more powerful mutated beings approaching them.
Nightmare flapped his wings, reaching the sky. He opened his mouth, breathing a crimson red stream of fire onto the mutated beings. His dragon breath turned everything into ash. In a few seconds, Nightmare killed almost half of the mutated beings. After burning them to ashes, Nightmare landed near Gaya to protect her in case a mutated being sneaked past Michael and him.