"The supervisor is inside the mine."


    "The mine?" Flora''s heart sank.


    "Yes." They nodded. One of them stepped forth while exining, "Because of the shake not long ago, a part of the mine copsed. He was bringing people in to rescue the workers."


    Flora bit her lips. ''The situation doesn''t look good. In this scenario, thest thing you want to do is go into the mine. Not only the earthquake, but the alien can also cause another copse. It''s especially true with an alien of that size… What should I do? Should I go to the mine?


    ''But Nathan and Serafina will be in danger. Should I abandon them? The mission will be considered a failure.''


    As a royal, she understood that her own life had a higher priority. She didn''tck people who would sacrifice their lives for her sake.


    However, it didn''t mean she could just abandon them like this.


    Even though they weren''t her subjects, she was still tied to a contract.


    ''Should I ask Nathan? Although I hate to say this, that guy might have a solution to this situation. No. I''m hoping he has a n. If we don''t have one, I need to take a more drastic measure.''


    Flora bit his lips. She was forced to make a decision when she heard the deep roar of the elephant.


    "!!!" Flora raised her head and immediately summoned her familiars. "You guys. Go rampage in this area. Kill as many aliens as possible and ensure the safety of these people and mine."


    The spirits nodded without hesitation. "You guys wait here."


    The people were confused, but Flora had already leaped toward Nathan. She pointed her palm at the alien and formed a magic circle. "Advanced Lightning Elemental Magic, Thunderbolt."


    A bolt of lightning flew toward the elephant.


    Boom!


    A massive explosion hit the elephant''s right side, causing it to almost fall down. It was wailing as though it were in pain.


    "!!!" Nathan raised his head as he noticed a presenceing her way.


    When he turned around, he saw Flora reaching his location.


    "Flora? What are you doing here?"


    "The situation doesn''t look good. The supervisor is leading people to rescue the workers inside the mine. It doesn''t seem like we are able to retreat." Flora pointed at the elephant. "I should take care of this mature ss alien. My familiars are rampaging on that side. As long as you can also unleash all your abilities to kill the rest of the aliens, we should be able to finish all this within fifteen to twenty minutes."


    "This alien has a tough skin, though."


    "Yes. Don''t worry. I might not be as strong as Noelle, but my firepower is the strongest."


    Nathan nodded immediately. Although he wanted to kill the mature ss alien by himself, he realized the situation didn''t allow him to do so.


    If he was stubborn, it would be toote.


    However, the enemies seemed to have exceeded their expectations.


    "Huh?!" Flora widened her eyes in shock. Fenrir, Anubis, and Nidhogg picked up threats from all directions due to their sharp instincts.


    They looked around and realized the predicament they were in.


    Nathan was confused, so he followed what they were doing. Chapter Enjoy:


    "Ah shit." Nathan gritted his teeth. From the north, he could see more than a hundred aliensing. They were easy to spot because they wereing from the sky. Yeah, all of them were flying aliens.


    More importantly, he could see a giant humanoid alien. Instead of a beard, it had tentacles. There was a pair of wings on its back as the alien was holding a giant club made of the symbiote.


    His instinct was telling him this was a mature ss alien.


    From the east, he could see a giant six-legged spider. The legs looked simr to humans, and the top of its body was filled with many tentacles. This, too, was a mature ss alien.


    Underneath the spider was a cloud of dust, showing that there were also a lot of aliensing with the spider.


    From the west, he found a worm that bulldozed everything in its path,ing at a much faster speed than the rest of the aliens.


    Last but not least, they didn''t see anything but a dust cloud. However, Nathan''s familiars were most wary of this direction, as if they realized the strongest one was actuallying from this direction.


    ''What is going on? Howe all those aliens move so fast? If they''re near us, Flora would have noticed. Nidhogg should be able to sense them too.


    ''The fact that they haven''t sensed it this whole time means they''re not there. It''s as if the alien is moving as soon as we arrive here.


    ''Are they waiting for us? No. The alien might be smart, but they shouldn''t be able to use such a tactic. In other words, something is going on without our knowledge. We have been trapped.''


    Nathan bit his lips. The situation was looking worse. There were at least five mature ss aliens in this area, along with a few hundreds, if not a thousand, lower-level aliens. The number of juvenile ss aliens must have surpassed a hundred as well because Nidhogg had a hard time earlier, showing the ratio between juvenile ss and proto-ss aliens.


    Unbeknownst to them, there was a man watching them from afar. He was the person Nathan met earlier in the town, Iskar, or more like Iskar Haygaiden.


    Iskar smirked. "Well, how are you going to handle this? If he is able to survive, it means he has another backer protecting him, as long as I don''t sense the Sage. If he doesn''t survive, the Sage will lose a piece he needs.


    "Of course, I''m going to kidnap him right before the alien kills him. Still, Master has told me not to mess with Nathan for the time being, but there''s no better time than this. I need to know whether the Sage is the one moving piece, or this guy is a hidden threat."