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Ur, HY1443(Human Year 1443)

Urgent Observation Report#2889

CT 0541HRS

A humanoid Entity, resembling ■■-■■ spotted near 03-01. Complete lack of any observable movement for the following 2 hours. After 2 hours, ■■-■■ seemingly vanished instantaneously, unable to be observed further. Following which a new Entity emerged from the remnant ashes, cinders and energy emanating from 03-01. This Entity temporarily codenamed 03-03 was observed to be a new Humanoid Entity with a body made of ash, stone, magma and lava, with 4 arms, 2 legs and 2 pairs of wings shaped similarly to a butterflee made of flames.

Salvaged black box recording from one of our Observation labs in the Ruins has been successfully decoded to be between Class 3 Researcher Allen ■■■■, a new hire Class 1 Researcher Marton ■■ and guard Enoch stationed within the Observation room about Entity 03-03's birth.

Researcher Marton: Hmm? Uhh, Sir, is there supposed to be a giant made of fire on top of 03-03?

Researcher Allen: Huh? What are y- fuck me, check the energy readings! ENOCH, TURN ON THE DAMN ALARMS!

The following few seconds show sounds of rushed steps and the sound of levers being pulled and buttons being pushed before a blaring alert rings clearly through and then more hurried curses and short orders

Researcher Allen: Fuck, its Terror-Class. SHIT! It's energy readings are still climbing. ENOCH, SOUND THE EVACUATION AND THEN-

The lab's Entity Suppresion Protocols kicked in and 03-03 was observed to move slower until a tenth of second later and a large explosion rang out and shattered the Suppression Cores in the A.E.S.

Following which, sounds of 3 grunts were caught on by the black box with hardly any interval in-between.

Researcher Marton: Sir! It's taken out the A.E.S! WE'RE FUCKED!

Curses rang out once more and then,

Researcher Allen: Hey, anyone need a smoke?

Researcher Marton & Guard Enoch: Sir! ITS HARDLY A TIME FOR A SMOKE RIGHT NOW!

Researcher Allen: It's...impossible now. Had we used the Suppression Cores as a lure before activating the AES and then detonated the Lab's final failsafe. We could've at least hurt the fucker, but it's already reached Nightmare-Class. Just take one and smoke it already! At least you want go out needing one.

The sound of two individuals gulping before walking towards Allen resounded. Then, the sound of a lighter being struck, a light and then another, before a deep drag and exhalation from two sources.

Researcher Marton: Sir, this is pretty shit, ain't it?

Researcher Allen: Your damn right, on your second day too. Kinda wish I had actually went and proposed to Allie, then at least I wouldn't be here and already on unpaid leave at home.

Enoch: *exhales* Don't believe him, before you came. He managed to annoy the hell out of Dr. Allie to the point she requested a full on transfer to another department because this asshole kept sending her on his prank errands. Like getting her to leave the Lab for a "special coffee mix" made from beans grown in the safe zones of the Ruina nearb-

And then, a massive explosion was recorded before the black box stopped recording. Cameras and scanners indicate that 03-03 flapped its wings within a tenth of a second towards the Lab before mostly everything turned to ash. The few visual recordings had been scavenged from the company's camera backup storage. With the last visible sighting of Entity 03-03 moving towards Teal's Outpost near the Last Barrier.

Agent ■■■■: An announcement was posted in the Library's noticeboard and a new book was announced titled "Ashen Seraph". Nightmare-Class confirmed.

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Teal's Outpost HY1443

CT 0603HRS

The Ashen Seraph moved with terrifying vigor and strength, whatever was within mere meters of it began melting and leaking gases. The skin of the residents of Teal's Outpost was vaporized before their organs cooked inside their bodies and a second later, they were charcoal. Fires broke out everywhere, the air became so hot that it began to shimmer.

A few Hunters attempted to resist it before they too, died. Residents began running away on mass towards the City but it was useless. The Ashen Seraph moved to wards the largest source of life fluctuations before fuy detonating itself and wiped out four-fifths of the Outpost. All that was left of both the Ashen Seraph and the town, was the massive crater full of boiling lava and a glowing diamond-like object levitating above the mass of lava that was once Teal's Outpost. Shortly after, the diamond disappeared.

On the outskirts of the Outpost, a mother was giving birth to her child. Despite the Ashen Seraph wrecking near total havoc upon the settlement, she still gave her best to ensure her child lived. Soon, it popped out. The neighbor and midwife exclaimed ecstatically and the screams of a newborn baby rang out. Unnoticed by anyone else, within the newborn eyes, a diamond surrounded by a blazing halo could be seen.

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