Monsters flowed into the portals like a stream of water. All these portals led to the same location, a vast plain. The Connectors tried their best to keep the monsters in place, but they were facing too many monsters. There weren’t enough Connectors to stem the tide.

It reached a point where the monsters had filled the plain.

So many monsters had passed through the portal that the flow of monsters had started to decrease. It meant that most of the monsters attacking the Connectors in Armstrong city had passed through the portals.

In the short term, it looked like a defeat for the Connectors in this mission. In the long term, it felt as if this signaled Earth's eventual defeat.

“Almost all of them have passed through.”

On a tall mountain across the plain stood an army in a formation. The commander of the army put down his binoculars.

“Shall we proceed with the plan?”

“Yes. Signal the Connectors.”

The commander brought up his binoculars once again when his subordinate went away. With the zoomed-in view, he saw the Connectors disengage from the monsters that they had been holding back.

The monsters tried to chase after the Connectors, but due to their own numbers, they had trouble moving. This meant that most of the monsters...