Everyone ran to the parapet.
The urgency in their steps dissipated when they reached the observation point.
What they found wasn't a threat, but something completely unexpected.
"The monsters..." Selene narrowed her eyes, studying the horizon. "They're... separating?"
Where before there had been an endless tide of creatures, now a triangular space opened up, as if an invisible force was pushing the monsters to the sides.
The phenomenon was more pronounced in the wind deposit's direction, where a reddish glow of millions of cores that had appeared after its conquest now seemed more intense.
"The Artromus's death," Lucien murmured, his mind connecting the dots. "Seems to have strengthened some kind of invisible barrier or behavior in this direction."
The triangle extended from the horizon, its point finally touching the city's barrier.
