"Anomaly detected."
Everyone turned their attention to the voice in the distance. They saw that the giant monster once again started to struggle against the shackles binding him.
"It's started moving."
The masked girl looked at the giant monster, and her face became ugly. She thought that if what Orion said were true, then they would definitely die if it went to the humongous hole in Market Street.
On the other hand, Orion thought that last time it couldn't sense the anomaly but this time it unexpectedly detected whatever anomaly it was searching for.
'What had changed from last time?'
Thinking of that, he turned his attention to his friends. If anything had changed between the last time and the present time, then that would be the presence of his friends.
'One of them is an anomaly? What is an anomaly?'
He couldn't understand what the term 'Anomaly' meant, but he figured it wouldn't be anything good if an Apocalypse-level monster wanted to kill them.
As for who the anomaly was, he had suspicions about one of them but he wasn't sure. He would have to wait and see.
"Initiating Extermination."
"Extermination failed due to restrictive movement."
"Initiating combat mode."
The monster uttered some robotic-like words once again but Orion and his friends could understand what it meant and because of it, their faces became ugly.
"Combat mode activated."
As if given some commands, the huge mammoth started trying to slowly turn its head towards Elder Torry.
Even though all its tentacles were being held tightly by the shackles, the monster could still turn its head with its sheer strength.
Elder Torry looked at the monster, trying to turn with a black face. He couldn't imagine that even one of the cosmic wonders couldn't hold the monster.
Moreover, he felt that whatever the anomaly was, it had somehow provoked the monster. He also couldn't understand why the monster talked like a system, but one thing he was sure of: if he let the monster go free right now, it would bring huge trouble for them.
With that in mind, he made a small cloud in front of him and took out all the mana crystals he had and placed them in the cloud while he absorbed them slowly, trying to refill his mana source that had been sucked dry earlier.
At the same time, he continued to supply a small amount of mana to the Space Tear so that it couldn't let the monster break the shackles easily.
Meanwhile, Orion and his friends looked at the monster. Well, they could only look at it at this point. They were too weak to participate in anything related to an apocalypse-level monster.
"Difficulty moving. Initiating berserk mode."
"Berserk mode activated."
Almost instantly, Orion hastily turned to Ryfin and Ron.
"Ryfin, Ron, use teleportation and get away with others, quick."
However, he was too late. Two beams of light zoomed towards them and arrived before them at the exact moment he warned them.
"Sh*t!"
Seeing that, Orion cursed and quickly increased his weight as much as he could with the curse of Burdened Gravity and Constant Pull.
At the same time, he used the curse of Unyielding Encasement in the Curse Transformation mode, causing his body to crystallize into a small, hexagonal-like force field.
He then quickly used its defensive ability to transform his hand into a huge hexagonal red shield, protecting and covering his friends.
Boom!—
The two beams of light collided with the red hexagonal shield, causing cracks to instantly appear on them.
Meanwhile, the pressure on Orion was so great that his legs embedded themselves into the ground.
Gritting his teeth, he turned around.
"Quick, Go!"
A muffled voice escaped from his mouth but Ryfin and Ron heard him clearly.
Ryfin quickly came closer to Famir and Lisa and disappeared with them, while Ron disappeared with the masked girl.
Seeing them get away, Orion instantly activated the curse of Dimensional Dissonance and moved to his dimension, disappearing from the path of the two beams of light.
The two beams of light passed through the area, finding no obstacle before they suddenly changed direction.
Orion, who was in his dimension, saw the direction the beams of light moved and was shocked to see Ron and the masked girl there.
'Could it be one of them?'
After seeing the beams of light moving towards them, he suspected the anomaly had to be one of them; otherwise, the beams of light wouldn't specifically turn towards them.
Ron, who just teleported with the masked girl, didn't even have time to breathe when he sensed the upcoming danger heading towards them.
"Damn, it's following us."
He was about to teleport with the masked girl again when she shook her head at him.
"You teleport left and I go right," she said. "That way, we will know who the anomaly is."
Ron nodded at her and disappeared from there. Meanwhile, the masked girl also vanished from there, leaving a trail of golden light.