11 THE DESCENT Date:MAY 28, 2027 Time: 12:00 AM Location: Earth The sky broke.
Not symbolically.
Not as an illusion created by the System.
The dome surrounding Earth shattered physically, splitting apart like cosmic glass beneath unimaginable pressure.
CRAAAAAAAAACKKKK!!
The sound reached every continent at once.
Oceans rose violently against their shores.
Entire mountain ranges trembled.
Windows burst inward across cities worldwide.
Satellites malfunctioned.
Electrical grids failed in waves.
For one impossible moment, humanity saw what had been hidden beyond Earth all along.
Darkness.
Not empty space, but an endless dimensional sea filled with fractures, storms of mana, and colossal moving silhouettes too distant to fully comprehend.
Then the cracks widened.
And the invasion began.
Date: May 28, 2027 Time: 12:01 AM Location: Tokyo, Japan The first creature descended screaming through the atmosphere.
It resembled a towering humanoid centipede wrapped in black armor-like flesh.
Sixteen crimson eyes glowed along its skull while hooked limbs carved sparks through the air during its descent.
System notifications exploded across civilian vision screens.
ABYSSAL CRAWLER RANK: C-RANK LOW CLASSIFICATION: MUTANT People froze.
A year earlier, C-Rank entities could not even exist properly on Earth.
Humanity had once treated D-Rank monsters like national disasters.
Now creatures stronger than entire early invasion waves were falling from the sky by the hundreds.
The crawler crashed directly into a crowded district.
BOOOOOOM!!
Concrete burst upward.
Vehicles flipped through the air.
Glass rained across shattered streets.
Screaming erupted instantly.
Office workers fled between overturned buses.
Parents dragged children into subway entrances.
Emergency alarms echoed across the district before abruptly dying beneath mana interference.
The creature moved immediately.
Fast.
One bladed limb sliced through an evacuation vehicle effortlessly.
Then— SHIIIIING!!
A crescent blade of compressed water cut across the battlefield and severed the creature cleanly in half.
The divided corpse crashed into burning buildings.
Tomi landed atop an overturned bus as spiraling water currents circled her body like living ribbons.
Her dark hair clung slightly to her face from rain and ocean mist while glowing blue mana illuminated her eyes.
For a brief second, stunned civilians simply stared at her.
Not because she looked divine.
Because she looked young.
Young enough that seeing her stand calmly against monsters felt surreal.
Tomi inhaled sharply while more portals tore open overhead.
“…Everyone move toward the eastern shelters!” she shouted.
Japanese hunters immediately reacted, guiding civilians through the streets.
Then the ocean behind the city exploded upward.
A massive serpent-like creature emerged roaring from Tokyo Bay.
Tomi’s expression tightened.
“…Right.
Of course there’s another one.” Despite the tension, a few nearby civilians laughed nervously at the remark.
The sound surprised even them.
Then Tomi launched herself forward again.
Location: Moscow, Russia BOOOOOOOOOOM!!
Gravity collapsed inward across an entire battlefield.
Hundreds of invading monsters folded into the earth simultaneously, crushed into mangled masses beneath impossible pressure.
At the center of the devastation stood THORVAK TITANBLOOD.
Snow spiraled around his enormous frame while distorted gravity warped the battlefield continuously around him.
His breathing remained steady, but his expression had hardened over the past hour.
The invaders were adapting.
That realization bothered him more than the numbers.
A gigantic beast erupted from a nearby portal moments later.
Four massive horns.
Black armored scales.
Magma veins glowing beneath cracked flesh.
CALAMITY BEAST RANK: B-RANK MID Russian tanks opened fire instantly.
MISSILES screamed overhead.
BOOOOM!!
BOOOOM!!
BOOOOM!!
The battlefield disappeared beneath smoke and flame.
Then the creature emerged unharmed.
Soldiers panicked immediately.
Thorvak moved before anyone could issue another command.
One step.
That was all.
The frozen earth shattered beneath him as gravity compressed around his fist.
Then he punched.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The impact detonated across the landscape like a meteor strike.
The beast’s skull imploded instantly while shockwaves overturned armored vehicles hundreds of meters away.
Thorvak lowered his arm slowly.
But another portal opened nearby.
Then another.
And another.
For the first time that night, fatigue briefly crossed his face.
“…Too many,” he muttered quietly.
Nearby officers heard him.
And that frightened them more than the monsters.
Location: Madrid, Spain The skies above Madrid burned gold.
VALDRIS IGNIS REX streaked through the atmosphere like a living sun while phoenix flames consumed entire swarms of invading creatures midair.
Every movement left molten trails across the clouds.
Below him, civilians watched from evacuation zones with expressions caught between terror and awe.
A little girl wearing an oversized emergency jacket pointed upward excitedly.
“That’s him!
The phoenix!” Her exhausted mother pulled her closer protectively, but even she couldn’t look away.
Then the clouds split apart.
A colossal skeletal wyvern descended roaring through the firestorm.
Its wings covered entire city blocks.
Corrupted black flames leaked from between exposed ribs while dead mana poisoned the air around it.
ABYSSAL BONE WYVERN RANK: B-RANK HIGH Valdris stopped midair.
Finally.
Something dangerous enough to feel exciting.
The wyvern opened its jaws and unleashed abyssal flames toward the city.
Valdris accelerated directly into the attack without hesitation.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!
Golden phoenix fire collided against death flames, illuminating Madrid brighter than daylight.
The shockwave shattered nearby skyscraper windows instantly.
Then Valdris burst through the darkness laughing.
For a moment he looked almost feral—eyes blazing, flames roaring wildly around him.
His fist condensed into a miniature sun.
And then he struck.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The wyvern’s skull exploded inward.
Its massive corpse crashed through multiple towers before igniting completely.
Cheers erupted below.
But Valdris didn’t smile afterward.
Because high above the city, more portals continued opening.
Endlessly.
And for the first time since his awakening, the excitement of battle mixed with something unfamiliar.
Responsibility.
Location: France SERAPHIEL LUXORIA moved through collapsing battle zones like living light.
Her six wings illuminated smoke-filled streets while divine barriers protected fleeing civilians from falling debris and monster attacks alike.
Every few seconds she healed someone else.
A crushed spine.
Burned lungs.
Missing limbs.
Soul corruption.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Thousands survived because she refused to stop moving.
But eventually even Seraphiel began trembling from exhaustion.
Blood stained the edges of her white-gold wings.
Not her blood.
Everyone else’s.
A little boy grabbed her sleeve weakly.
“…Please save my mom…” Seraphiel looked toward the woman lying nearby.
No heartbeat.
No soul response.
Gone.
The child still stared at her hopefully.
Because humanity had begun seeing the Top 30 as miracles.
As saviors.
As beings capable of anything.
And that belief hurt more than the battlefield itself.
Seraphiel knelt slowly before him.
Her voice nearly broke.
“…I’m sorry.” The boy’s expression collapsed instantly.
Not dramatic grief.
Just quiet devastation.
Seraphiel closed her eyes briefly.
For the first time since evolving, she hated her own power.
Not because it was monstrous.
Because it still wasn’t enough.
Then another explosion shook the district.
More wounded.
More screams.
Seraphiel stood again despite her exhaustion.
Her wings unfolded across the ruined street.
And divine light surged once more.
Location: Earth Orbit KAEL VANTHARION floated silently above the planet.
From orbit, Earth looked beautiful.
Blue oceans.
Burning cities.
Countless flashes of combat spreading across continents like glowing wounds.
Kael raised one hand slowly.
Space folded.
Entire invasion fleets emerging from dimensional tears collapsed inward instantly.
Thousands of monsters vanished without leaving bodies behind.
But even after that— more kept coming.
An endless tide.
Kael’s expression remained calm until his spatial senses suddenly reacted violently.
A massive dimensional rupture opened above the Atlantic Ocean.
Then something emerged.
A hand.
Gigantic.
Large enough to eclipse entire cities.
Kael’s eyes narrowed immediately.
“…That shouldn’t be possible.” The mana density was still stabilizing.
Creatures of that magnitude should not have been able to descend yet.
Then realization hit him.
The invaders weren’t obeying the System’s restrictions anymore.
They were forcing the portals open from outside.
Breaking reality manually.
And somewhere deep beneath Kael’s controlled exterior, genuine unease finally appeared.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria Despite the distance, people in Lagos could still see the battle occurring far beyond the horizon.
Every collision between AETERNUS and the invading entities distorted the atmosphere visibly.
The night sky flashed blue, red, and violet repeatedly.
Apartment buildings trembled from distant shockwaves.
Inside a crowded evacuation shelter, civilians watched emergency broadcasts in stunned silence.
One elderly man whispered quietly: “…That boy is fighting all of them alone?” Nobody answered him.
A child nearby stared at the screen with wide eyes.
The battle no longer resembled humans fighting monsters.
It looked like mythological beings waging war across Earth itself.
And somehow, that realization terrified people even more than the invasion.
Location: Nigeria — Adamawa State The battlefield had become unrecognizable.
Mountains were gone.
Forests erased.
Frozen storms covered entire regions while shattered ice fields stretched toward the horizon.
At the center of the devastation stood AETERNUS.
Bleeding.
Breathing heavily.
Still smiling.
His dragon instincts had awakened completely during combat.
Every injury sharpened his senses further.
Every near-death experience accelerated his evolution.
Blue frost flames erupted endlessly around his massive crimson-scaled body while red dragon energy distorted the atmosphere like invisible pressure waves.
Then purple energy formed behind him.
Hundreds of floating distortions.
Tiny stars of annihilation.
The surrounding invaders hesitated for the first time.
One charged anyway.
A six-armed armored creature wielding abyssal blades moved unpredictably through the sky, changing direction faster than sound.
But AETERNUS saw everything.
The mana circulation.
The muscle tension.
The exact instant the creature intended to strike.
He vanished.
BOOOOOOOM!!
The invader exploded apart midair.
Not frozen.
Not cut.
Erased.
Purple distortion consumed half its body completely.
Another attacker came immediately from below.
Then another from behind.
Then several more simultaneously.
Coordinated.
Intelligent.
Warriors, not beasts.
A blade pierced through AETERNUS’s shoulder.
Another slammed into his ribs.
CRAAAAACK!!
His body crashed through frozen cliffs violently.
Before the smoke settled, dozens of attacks descended together.
Corruption beams.
Spatial distortions.
Acidic breath.
AETERNUS’s instincts screamed.
“Blue.” Entire frozen mountain ranges rose upward instantly, forming colossal barriers.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Explosions consumed the battlefield.
Then AETERNUS burst back through the smoke.
Hunting.
His claws ripped through one invader’s chest.
His tail crushed another into shattered ice.
Blue flames erupted point-blank from his jaws into a winged creature’s face.
Then red dragon energy exploded outward from his wings.
Invisible force detonated across the battlefield.
Several invaders were crushed instantly.
Others lost control midair.
But the strongest remained.
And one of them stepped forward slowly.
Tall.
Armored.
Ancient.
Its presence alone silenced the battlefield.
System warnings erupted across AETERNUS’s vision.
ABYSSAL GENERAL — VARKHUL RANK: A-RANK PEAK Even the other invaders retreated slightly.
Varkhul looked at AETERNUS with genuine interest.
“…Interesting.” Then he vanished.
CRAAAAAAASH!!
His fist slammed directly into AETERNUS’s skull.
Shockwaves split the clouds over Nigeria.
AETERNUS crashed into the earth hard enough to collapse entire mountain ranges.
Varkhul descended immediately afterward, stomping downward with monstrous force.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The landscape shattered.
But from beneath the ruins, a gigantic frozen claw erupted upward.
AETERNUS burst from underground roaring violently.
The dragon roar itself ruptured nearby invaders.
Purple energy condensed around his claws as both monsters collided again.
The impact resembled a natural catastrophe.
The sky split.
The earth cracked.
Entire forests vanished beneath the shockwaves.
Far above Earth, beyond the dimensional fractures, ancient entities watched silently.
One colossal dragon-like being narrowed its enormous eyes slightly while observing the crimson-scaled hatchling fighting below.
“…That hatchling…” Silence followed.
Then the ancient creature spoke again.
“…Interesting.” CREATORS’ THOUGHTS AETERNUS Next update for AET-RPD tomorrow.