This game is so weird!

Seraphim.

Ruins surrounding Efila.

Three muscular men, their arms thicker than a normal person's thighs, wearing heavy metal armor, leaned against a half-broken wall of a ruined house, panting heavily.

"Damn it, these orcs are following us way too closely."

"Ever since I left Efila City, I've been followed by orc laborers, and I can't shake them off."

"There are still homeless people hiding nearby, so it's not a good time to retreat..."

One of the burly men poked his head out and fired a few shots, then retreated under the suppressive fire of the orc soldiers, looking at another fully armed warrior.

"Captain, if we don't retreat now, once the orc reinforcements arrive, we won't be able to retreat even if we want to!"

"Besides, our mission isn't even finished yet. We've already suffered over half our casualties, and even Rojas is dead! If we don't retreat now, we'll really have no chance!!"

The captain, looking hesitant, glanced at the corner of a vagrant's clothes peeking out from the ruins beside him, his eyes revealing a struggle.

"team leader!!!"

"Locomotive, quiet down, let the captain think about it!"

Hearing the argument between the two remaining team members, the captain's eyes narrowed, and he was about to do something against his conscience.

"Gah!"

With a chilling scream, a crack appeared in the ground of the plaza not far from where the three were hiding. The paving stones flew out in all directions, and six huge, sharp shield-like legs burst through the ground from the ground. The two-story-high sharp legs waved wildly in the air. Amid the dust, two slightly smaller shield-like legs clung to the sides of the hole, gradually pulling the monster to the surface with the help of the sharp legs.

"It's a burrowing beast!!!"

Another soldier screamed in despair.

The vagrants hiding in the surrounding ruins shuddered, shrinking back in despair, as if hoping to avoid being discovered by the orcs and their minions and escape their fate.

As the burrowing beast shattered the ground, more than a dozen orc laborers sprang out of the burrow, followed closely by several orc soldiers armed with rifles. They grinned as they advanced, using the burrowing beast's massive shield-like legs for cover.

The warrior known as "Locomotive" once again leaned out halfway and, under the cover of his teammates' fire, threw a string of grenades at the burrowing beast.

The bullets sparked against the shield feet of the burrowing beasts, occasionally hitting the orc laborers who ran too fast out of the protective range and successfully knocking them down.

The orc soldiers behind them were basically unharmed, and they continued to advance with the burrowing beasts, and were about to reach the place where the group was hiding.

Just then, the grenade thrown by the locomotive successfully struck the burrowing beast below, exploding with a huge burst of sparks with a loud "bang!" The burrowing beast howled in pain, its eight shield legs curling into a ball. Two nearby orc soldiers were also knocked to the ground, and three or four orc laborers were blown to pieces.

Just as the three breathed a sigh of relief and were about to call on the nearby homeless people to retreat together.

"Gah!!!!"

The burrowing beast, curled up in a ball, let out a huge roar. Its eight shield-like legs parted to reveal its wounded torso, and it charged forward at twice the speed, arriving in front of the locomotive's bunker in the blink of an eye.

"locomotive!!"

The four pointed legs in the middle stood up high and, without flinching from the attacks of the other two warriors, smashed into the wall where the locomotive was located.

Seeing that things were not going well, the locomotive rolled twice to the side and used the dust kicked up by the impact to escape into a nearby house.

Seeing this, the orc soldiers and laborers also accelerated their charge.

The orc soldiers used nearby cover to provide suppressive fire, their rifle bullets continuously hitting the two warriors, forcing them to retreat step by step. Several other laborers, on all fours, used their hands and feet to climb over the ruins and were in front of the two in the blink of an eye.

The soldier known as the captain activated the chainsaw attached to his rifle and slammed it down on the charging laborer, splitting him in two like Moses parting the sea amidst a spray of blood and flesh.

The conscripted soldiers around them paused, then took a few steps back in fear.

Seeing this, the locomotive, fleeing from the burrowing beasts amidst the ruins of the building, threw out its last string of grenades, which crashed into the open ground in front of the orc soldiers, exploding into a burst of sparks.

"Retreat! Captain!!!"

Seeing the situation was dire, the captain and another soldier used the explosion as cover to retreat to a building behind them. Just then...

"ah!!!"

A convict seized a hiding vagrant, grabbed his arm under the vagrant's desperate gaze, and bit him.

"rough!"

The captain turned around, fired a burst of bullets, and accurately hit the orc laborer, knocking it to the ground. It was then suppressed by the reaction fire of the orc soldiers and buried behind a small patch of rubble.

At this moment, the burrowing beast also turned around. Unable to catch the annoying bug hiding in the building for the time being, it was full of anger and scanned the area before fixing its gaze on the warrior captain, whose blond hair was very conspicuous, who was still in the center of the ruins.

"Gahhhhhh!!!"

The eight-legged burrowing beast charged at the captain, its two sharp legs splitting to the left and right, blocking his escape route.

Seeing that their captain was about to die on the spot, the two soldiers hiding in the building closed their eyes in unbearable pain. Even the captain himself was preparing to fight to the death and leaped under the body of the burrowing beast.

An uninvited guest appeared on the battlefield.

"Ohh ...

"Syra, your emperor has returned!!!"

With a comical shout, several figures descended from the sky, while several beams of particle light struck the burrowing beast.

The absolute heat generated by the high-energy particle weapon used by the Imperial Army instantly melted through the burrowing beast's sturdy carapace and limbs, leaving three wounds that smelled of flesh, without a single drop of blood falling to the ground.

The burrowing beast, struck in the torso by one of the particle beams, collapsed without even letting out a wail and stopped breathing.

Standing right in front of the burrowing beast, the warrior captain, observing the weapon's effects from a first-person perspective, looked up in surprise. A spaceship he had never seen before was hovering in mid-air, level with the ruins of a three-story clock tower next to it.

The seasoned captain quickly confirmed that the spaceship did not belong to any known faction on Sera.

The particle weapon barrels are scattered on both sides of the ship, with the barrel located directly below the bow still gathering blue light, as if it were charging.

If it weren't for the different color of the beam, he would have thought that the Dawn Hammer had been installed on the spaceship, which would have caused such great damage.

The captain quickly reacted and, taking advantage of the orc soldiers' dazed state, darted into the building where his teammates were hiding. He concealed himself behind the wall, adjusted his goggles, and peered through the cracks in the wall at the unidentified spaceship in the sky, becoming curious about their origins.

"Ouch, my knee is broken... Ah! My phone!!!!"

Meanwhile, impatient players who couldn't wait for the spaceship to land jumped directly to the ground, wailing and trying to get up.

One of the octopus-headed creatures let out a desperate howl as it looked at the headset terminal that had fallen to the ground and shattered into pieces, attracting the attention of the surrounding orcs.

Without hesitation, the simple-minded orc soldier raised his rifle and unleashed a burst of fire.

Several orc soldiers even fired wildly at the spaceship in the sky, bullets creating pale blue ripples around the spaceship.