Reidar's blood went cold.
The creature that was standing on the horizon was like a mountain that had decided to move. Its body was so massive that the buildings between Reidar and the monster looked like toys, and even at this distance, he was able to clearly see every particularity of its body.
—[World-Carver Behemoth—Level 763]—
That number alone told Reidar how powerful the thing was, because the system's detection range for nametags was limited, and the fact that he could read the tag from this far meant the Behemoth's body occupied enough of his field of view to trigger the reading.
He had known the Behemoth was in the area. Lyra'xis had told him as much. The monster had been circling Kingsgate for months, kept at a distance by the Aegis Phalanx's diversionary operations. But Reidar had expected the Aegis to keep pushing the monster away.
