Chapter 3461: Destroyed Anomaly
Word around Kiriket spread fast as news of the anomaly moved across the entire continent. An anomaly that could defy almost all of their sensors had infiltrated the continent from the outside and was rapidly moving towards the core.
The identity of the anomaly was unknown.
Not a single person knew where it came from.
Not a single person had identified what its motives were, although they had deduced that it had hostile motives based on the targeted disabling of the entropic surveillance of the flies that sat inconspicuously in the forest, simply collecting data and sending it back to the clan of flies.
What was shocking was that the anomaly had not only been almost entirely undetectable, but it had managed to find out what its one detectable point was, and had identified what was sensing it, to then disable it on the fly.
That was scary.
That revealed a level of power and ability that very few people in the world had. What was especially annoying was the fact that, despite many clans having joined the chase due to the anomaly passing through many territories, not a single person had been able to capture it.
With each passing moment that it eluded their senses, their assessment of its danger level grew more and more serious. There was no way that something insignificant in capability would be able to do what the anomaly had done. The evolutionaries were the most adept at stealth out of all the pathwalkers in the world, and not even they would be able to pull off this anomaly they were doing.
What was especially frightening was whether there were other entities and parties out there with the ability to bypass their systems to this extent. If that was the case, then their security and their surveillance were sorely lacking, and it would mean that they were a lot more exposed and vulnerable to furtive infiltrations than they might have thought.
However, it stood in contrast to the many, many assassins, spies, infiltrators, saboteurs, covert agents, and all manner of pathwalkers who tried to sneak into the Continent of Kiriket, and failed miserably.
They usually overestimated themselves or underestimated Kiriket and just how many surveillance measures there were in the entire continent. And yet, here there was an anomaly that seemed to be able to breeze through it; look, it didn’t even exist.
It seemed to become harder and harder with each passing moment to actively track its exact location because they had lost the entropic surveillance that the flies gave them due to the active sabotage from the anomaly, making it very difficult for them to even fathom what was going on.
They could only follow the trail of sabotaged flies, which made for a much, much harder margin of error.
The anomaly headed deeper and deeper into the continent, giving many chills at the thought of what the goal of the anomaly was.
Why had it infiltrated Kiriket?
Where was it going?
What would happen if they failed to stop it?
"...Damn! We need to stop it at all costs!"
"Forget trying to capture or impede it!"
"Just destroy it!"
The various captains of the various squadrons of therianthropes and their bonded beasts had made up their mind on the matter, refusing to take any risk with such a mind-boggling anomaly that would make life much harder for them if they let it get away.
"Attack!"
In the blink of an eye, the powerful beasts manned by the therianthropes unleashed a massive, destructive onslaught of all manner of attacks. Some unleashed physical attacks with their massive bodies, while others unleashed powerful gales with their wings, destroying everything in sight.
BOOOOOOMMM!!!
The tremendous attacks razed everything within a ten-kilometer radius with the massive power that they unleashed upon the world.
RUMBLE!
A flood of seismic radiation swept across the forest, absorbed by genetically modified subterranean life that could absorb seismic radiation and store it as chemical energy.
While their seismic radiation absorption technology was not as good as that of the elves, they were still quite good at mitigating damage. However, they didn’t particularly care to.
They only hoped that the anomaly that they targeted was dead along with all the animals and life that they had wiped out.
"...I’m not sensing anything." One fly-man gazed at his sensors. "...I think we might have exterminated the anomaly with that attack. No more anomalous reports and no more mass disabling of our entropic surveillance flies..."
His eyes lit up.
"I think we might have killed it!"
They, in fact, did not kill it.
Far in the distance, Rui and Amare opened the gap between them and the razed area that the therianthropes had unleashed destruction upon, hoping to kill them.
"They’re not following us anymore..." Amare’s tone was one of relief as she turned to Rui. "What did you do?"
"I used nature manipulation to get the trees to send signals that could trick the flies into thinking that there was an identifiable source of the entropy that it was detecting," Rui replied. "That is why they stopped reporting anomalies to our pursuers. They are not the most intelligent creatures by any means. Fooling them was relatively easy with a little bit of trial and error."
"You say it’s easy, but it sounds very difficult to me," she murmured with an impressed tone. "How far are we from the Gajanan Clan?"
"Not that far, we should be getting there within an hour at our current pace."
WHOOSH
The two of them shot through Kiriket Continent, passing through multiple different territories within the continent. Rui didn’t simply let his guard down just because he had overcome the therianthropes’ surveillance with his stealth temporarily.
Different parts of the continent were vastly different from other parts of the continent, with different kinds of lifeforms, especially different fauna. It was possible that there were other species with other, more exotic principles of surveillance that could identify them through their stealth techniques despite all the power that they poured into it.
That was why they needed to get to more amiable groups within the continent.