It Began by Chance, Yet Our Meeting Was Inevitable

The dust cloud settled.

The house where we'd been just moments ago had been crushed without a trace, reduced to a pile of rubble.

A gigantic Golem stood calmly atop it.

The symbol of destruction that had once rampaged through City Hall, devastated the city center, and driven us to the brink of despair.

It was smaller than the other one, and its presence was weaker, but the mere existence of another individual was still an unbelievable shock.

—And yet, my gaze wasn't fixed on 'it,' but on the man standing beside it.

(......Who is that guy?)

He looked like an 'ordinary young man' you could find anywhere.

His features were so utterly plain that if you passed him on the street, you wouldn't even remember his face.

But the presence I sensed with 'Search' was unmistakably that of a monster. It was even more powerful than a High Orc or a Dark Wolf...