"We are here today..."

"It is only a matter of time before the conference starts..."

"We have receive information that the conference will tackle the current matters to the public..."

"We can now see all the ministers and senators taking their seats one by one..."

Looking from below, the two american men watched all the activity happen below. They then looked at the three that was not far from them.

"Ain't you boys gotta protect yer president?"

"He's protected enough."

The two american men looked at each other, after that, they then looked below once more.

"What Confidence." They both thought.

"Still, i still think he needs protection."

The men wearing black cloaks did not respond.

"Lax aren't ya. I gotta warn you though, You reap what you sow."

The three still didn't reply.

Seeing this, one of the american men felt irritated.

"Are we that insignificant?" He thought.

"Hmpf." Snorted of the men.

"That's it."

A vein popped in this man's head.

His hands immediately  formed into a fist. He also started to put strength in his arms. But before he could do anything, he suddenly felt his left shoulder go heavy.

When he looked at his left, there he saw his friend, looking at him grimly.

"Don't. Do. Anything. Rash."

Seeing such a face and his hearing his words. The previous thought of fighting immediately dispersed his mind.

Seeing this, one of the men wearing black cloaks said,

"Not bad for a merc."

"Seems like your better than the rest." Mentioned another.

"Well, only one of them though." Mentioned the last one of the men wearing black cloaks.

The two American men looked at each other, right after that. The man that eased up his friends tension then said,

"You mentioned the words 'better than the rest'. Are there more that came here?"

Leaning on the wall, one of the men in Black cloaks replied,

"Yes, there are more. Ever since the fog came up, a number of assassins and mercenaries already came to our front doors, knocking."

"Although it's a pity that they underestimated the regiment. Just because we're in the military, it does not completely mean we are normal."

"Right after that, the second wave of your kind came in. Although they were much smarter, they still failed."

Hearing this, the two American men immediately took a step back. But at the same time, realization came to their minds.

After the fog event happened, multiple contacts from different mercenary and assassin teams that was in the country suddenly disappeared.

Seeing such an occurrence, them and their other buddies decided to go and look for the teams they lost contact with.

So, the first destination they decided was a mercenary group called Mariana.

Mariana was a large mercenary group with members of different origins. They had access to mid grade military tech and had very skillful members.

The mercenary group's base was located at the country and they had a good rating at the mercenary association so they choose to go for that group first.

The group's base is located somewhere within the Alfonso Casteñada so they had to go through the rocky trail.

However, as they neared the base though, they immediately noticed marks, marks of blood.

Going further, they soon found the origins of the blood.

3 bodies, all hanging on trees.

Seeing this, they immediately brought the bodies down and checked the bodies injuries.

To their shock however, instead of gunwounds and knife stabs, they found large cuts and hollowed torsos.

Some of them speculated it was the military's doing. However, it was immediately dropped as they knew the military would not do this cruelty, even to a mercenary.

After burying the bodies, they then headed straight to the mercenary base.

However, as they got closer to the base, bodies and blood became even more evident.

Some were killed similarly, while some... Let's just say it was a death better not to remember.

And then, they reached the base.

However, it was no different to a slaughterhouse.

Rotting organs, Severe stench, Severed heads, Halved bodies, just like a slaughterhouse.

They were shocked. What a massacre.

They soon left the place after that, but they alighted a signal flare so that the military would come there.

However, as they left, questions filled their heads.

What could have caused such a massacre? Who is responsible for it? Was it the government?

A few days have passed since its discovery and the news had spread like wildfire in the assassins and mercenaries on the country. At the same time, as they were the first few to know, they were also the first few to gather some intel about it.

There was huge destruction on the capital and there were heavy and light traces of battle on various locations within the country.

Military movement also increased and more in depth operations have started. The internet was inaccessible and connections from the mercenary association and the rest of the world have disappeared. Airports and ship ports have been tightly closed and there was increased activity on science and research facilities. The same goes for the space agencies in the country.

With these intel alone, a number of assassins and mercenaries felt distressed that they headed to the palace for answers. However, they never heard from them ever again.

Until that time...

243 km, west of palawan. They were able to capture that picture.

It was the navy. More or less even the stinger ships that are used for space operations are seen on the scene. The ships was engaging to something they never thought to have existed.

A giant eel and some sea creatures that could possibly only come from the Mariana trench.

They couldn't explain it.

But they wanted answers. And they wanted to get it as fast as they can.

"What's going on in this country?"

"Many things have happened in the past month. And well, to be honest, we even had to reap blood during that month."

"Reap blood? Are you the ones that massacred the Mariana mercenary group?"

"We're not the ones that killed them mercilessly. It was a beast called skenetia. Well, that's what it's called from what I heard."

Baffled by the word. The man inquired.

"What's a skenetia?"

"A beast that has an exoskeleton as tough as an exoskeleton specie of the prehistoric, but at the same time also has bones that of mammals."

"It's image is of a combination of a male deer's hind legs and antlers and the front legs of an horse and a head and a body of a horse. Extremely fast and flexible."

Hearing this, the two men were even more baffled.

Seeing their reactions, the three men in black cloaks shook their heads like they already expected it.

"That's BULLSHIT!"

"Are you telling us to believe those lies."

Right after the man that formed his fists earlier said that, one of the men wearing black cloaks then said this to him in a grim tone

"Wether we tell you wether what we said is the truth or not no longer matters. Because right now, your suspicion have already suspected by us. Your assumptions have already been proven by us, your problem no longer has a connection with us, and your origin no longer matters to us."

"Wha-"

"Shut it Merc. Everything you want to know will be mentioned in this conference. In the past month, we have went on and fixed as much problems as we can. We have reaped blood, used immense limited resources, wasted batteries and ammunitions that are worth billions. We lied to the populace, to keep control, gave excuses to those broken families, closed down everything that even foreigners have become irritated."

"We have endured as much as we can. The unity within the country will be damaged due to this conference and it will be a blow not easy to repair. There will be wailing, distress, insecurity. Due to this, Riots may break out, a punishing revolution may even incur."

"Right now, this country is standing on a thin thread, us the military, the government, the ones that knows the current situation and us, the ones that has no choice but to accept the horrible truth. We are the ones trying our best to make sure this country does not fall from that thread."

"If our predictions that simulated would happen just because of this conference. Then I am afraid that this country will fall harder than any country in Earth's history."

"So shut it and listen, think logically and practically. Everything that will be stated here is of the truth and only the truth. If you do not believe it, then I'm sorry for your ignorance. But if you do believe it, then thank you."

Both the American men looked dumbfoundedly at that man.

Everything that he has said was done in a grim manner.

As mercenaries, they themselves knew that saying something in a grim tone is dead serious.

More so, they even felt chills ran down their spines as that man said this.

*Pat*

An hand was then set in that black cloaked man's shoulder by another man wearing a black cloak.

"Calm down. To see is stronger than words, and to act is stronger than any sight. Let them see and act on it. Then that would be the time for them to decide.

After that, that man then disappeared and so was the other.

The man who have stated everything in a grim tone then faced his back at them.

"Hmpf."

Right after that short snort. He also disappeared from the Americans sight.