Chapter 344: Chapter 344: System's True Enemy

Elio turned sharply, expecting to find the attacker in the sky, but something else caught his attention: the luminous sphere that had formed at the rays' convergence had vanished.

Everything seemed normal and smooth at the point where the energies had met.

But to Elio, who had paid special attention, the small sphere seemed to be missing.

'Did it break?' The thought barely had time to form in his mind. 'Did it let something escape?'

A buzz, almost imperceptible among the chaos of sounds filling the air, drew his attention like a magnet.

Even with his perception forced to its maximum, Elio had to concentrate to track the source.

There, silhouetted against the sky, a figure moved with a lethal grace that made previous Artromus seem clumsy. Its speed, about 50 points according to Elio's rough calculations, was just the beginning.