Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

"What the hell is going on!?"

Mira was quite obviously confused about the situation surrounding her arrival on Eldaris.

The officials in the military didn't mention anything about this type of thing happening, in fact they said that the only time there were reports of failures in the drop pods were when the Red Demons directly interfered with them, whether it be with their electronics, or by shooting them down directly.

But Mira looked around herself, and even scanned with her Spatial perception, and forget Red Demons, there was literally nothing living within her range!

She looked around herself, but all she could see was the endless forest that she saw from orbit when she was dropping.

Unfortunately she couldn't tell exactly where she was on Eldaris since the geography literally looked the same no matter where one went.

And she couldn't connect to the galactic web or the inner military network because, for some reason, her communicator had stopped working as well.

'If even my communicator isn't working, then something has definitely gone very wrong…'

Mira couldn't quite wrap her head around it, so she decided to venture further into the forestry nearby.

***

A few minutes prior, on Eldaris.

"Did you do what I asked?"

A Red Demon draped in a green, camo uniform hiding in the canopy above the forest spoke.

His eyes were glued to the sky, as if he was expecting something to come falling down at any second.

"Yes, the Gate disruptors have been installed, and it looks like the humans didn't notice because of Commander Bakrat's distraction for their B- rank by the Floodgate!"

Another Red Demon, also covered from head to toe in camo, responded.

They both kept their voices low so that they weren't found, and they spoke in hushed tones.

"Good, I've just been informed that the Humans have sent some more recruits to join the battles on this Planet, and they have even sent 10 prodigies!"

The first Red Demon, who seemed to be the one in charge out of the two, exclaimed.

"I'm hoping we can at least get 5 of these prodigies with our Gate disruptors. I wonder how the Humans would react when they find out 5 of their prodigies are missing right on arrival… I'm sure there would be a huge ruckus."

The Red Demon in charge continued his explanations, not hiding his excitement from the other Red Demon, who shared his excitement.

The duo remained perched high in the canopy, as they watched the sky intensely for the next few minutes, not even blinking once in fear that they would miss something.

Bang!

Bang!

Booooom!

Suddenly, all kinds of loud explosion like sounds echoed across the atmosphere in succession as a hundred drop pods entered Eldaris's atmosphere all at once and started to make their rapid descent down to the ground. Stay immersed with m-vl-em-py-r

"Now! Do it now Makarot!"

The Red Demon in command spoke, agitated and a little bit rushed.

Makarot, the other Red Demon, listened to his superior and tapped on the terminal on his wrist.

Then…

There was no then, as literally nothing happened after he pressed the button.

Well… it wasn't like nothing happened, but more that nothing noticeable had happened.

Unknowingly though, far away next to the B- rank Floodgate, an invisible field had enveloped the area surrounding it, which would have some unimaginable and unexplainable effects for anyone who entered the area.

"Damn! I only saw one drop pod enter the range of the Gate disruptors! I can only hope that pod carried a prodigy… Makarot, report the mission as a failure. We're done here."

***

Mira continued to move cautiously through the forest.

She made sure to stay within a 2 Kilometre radius of where she landed, so the drop ship never left her senses.

It would be one thing if she was dropped into this mysterious and uncertain environment without any idea what was going on.

But it would only be much worse if she added getting lost onto the list of things that went wrong for her today…

"What the hell am I meant to do here then… I came to this place expecting to find a good harvest of soul cores, but instead I got dropped into this deserted environment?"

Mira was starting to get downtrodden as she started to make her way back to the Drop pod.

She trudged back through the dense undergrowth, her steps curiously being very quiet despite the fact that she was crushing leaves and twigs with every step she took.

The oppressive silence of the forest around her only added to her frustration.

'At least have some wind god damnit! I'd at least like to hear the rustling of the leaves and trees!'

But her frustrations remained unanswered.

The whole situation was surreal and odd — like she was dropped into some sort of simulation of Eldaris rather than the actual place.

Her thoughts churned with disappointment and confusion.

Her assignment was supposed to be straightforward.

Land, located any enemies, whether they were beasts or Red Demons, kill them, and repeat until she was to report back to HQ 7 days later for pickup, where she would get a 2 day break before she would be sent back to the battlefield again.

But instead, she found herself in this dead zone, cut off from contacting anybody, and without any proper transport off planet.

She couldn't leave now even if she wanted to, which she did quite a lot.

As she neared the small clearing her drop pod made when it landed, she let out a long, frustrated sigh.

"Fuck, it would have been better for me to just go to the Primordial Expanse instead…"

But as the drop pod came into view, something caught her attention — something that made her freeze mid step.

She glanced away, shaking her head.

'It must be my imagination.' she thought, but the nagging sensation wouldn't leave her.

She stopped, and turned her gaze back to the drop pod, her senses sharpening.

'What was that?'

Mira narrowed her eyes, straining to see.

'A beast!'

But when she moved closer, everything became clear.

And she could see a beast right next to her drop pod, sniffing it out of curiosity!