116 Long Distance Fight Part 2

"What do you mean they can be defeated?" Graves protested, looking for some clarity from his commanding officer. "They just wiped out our missiles, and they detected them despite their Mach 3 speed. These unknowns are on a completely different level. If they get close to the Oriental, there's a good chance we'll be overrun."

As Richard was preparing to answer, their attention was abruptly pulled back to the TPLEX.

The missiles that Seo-Jun had vanished were reappearing, reconstructed by the same pinkish thorns that had destroyed them. They no longer looked like typical missiles; their surface was now pink, with vein-like patterns as though they had taken on an organic form.