"Halt! All units halt!"

He screamed for the soldiers to stop before ordering them to quickly take up a defensive formation.

Seol Jihu was able to take a breather thanks to Flone who had been sweeping the area, so he hurriedly ran up to the soldier and asked.

"What happened?"

The soldier raised his trembling finger.

"They’re… running."

It was a weak voice.

Seol Jihu moved his gaze towards the direction the soldier had pointed.

It was true. The Medusa that his and five other teams were targeting was running off into the distance.

"Must we really catch the Medusa? If it’s running away…”

The soldier asked with great difficulty.

"…We must kill it."

The Medusas were only the first step of their mission. Their ultimate goal was to take down the Nests.

The Medusas were different from other Parasites in the fact that they were the direct offsprings created by the Nests. They had reproductive and absorptions abilities in addition to their excellent control ability. Their high intelligence was incomparable to the Hydras, which were also classified as high-ranked species.

As such, Teresa had used the Nest’s sole weakness of ‘being unable to do anything during summoning’ to execute a plan.

In other words, taking down the Medusas meant forcing the Nests to make a choice.

It was either ‘to stop the summoning and control the battlefield’ or ‘to continue the summoning and give up troops.’ The first would be better, but the latter was...