A Special Grade was an entirely different matter when it came to battle.
Veronica could count on one hand the number of Special Grades she had faced so far, and every encounter had unleashed enough chaos and destruction to draw others into the conflict.
She had deliberately kept the backup team uninformed about this one, knowing they would immediately rush toward the rift the moment they learned a Special Grade was present, abandoning their original objective of securing the people. She could not allow that to happen.
More importantly, she could not let them see Kyle now.
Yet, as she stood before the creature, Veronica found herself regretting that decision.
It was something born from a nightmare. Standing nearly seven feet tall, its entire body was covered in blue and black scales that seemed to defy the sunlight itself, swallowing the light rather than reflecting it.
