Chapter 257 - The Countermeasure
"It'll be fastest to start by understanding exactly what kind of enemy we're dealing with."
Michael pulled out his smartphone without preamble and showed a few photos. The first image was of the orb with the eye-like appearance—eerily familiar.
"We refer to this as the Phase One form. It might look like nothing special, but it's a monster capable of taking down level-300-class enemies all by itself."
Jhin's memory flashed briefly to when Cerberus and the one-eyed gargoyle had vanished without even putting up a struggle.
That was only Phase One.
"And this here is Phase Two."
This time, images of orb variants appeared—some like the one with wings in Kanubis, others in entirely different forms.
One had grown grotesquely large.
Another had split into dozens of miniature versions, swarming like a virus.
Clicking his tongue, Michael explained,
