Although the final development was somewhat beyond Gawain's expectations, the outcome of the entire battle was still largely within his anticipation—the mere two or three thousand aberrations can no longer threaten the Cecil Clan, which has established complete defenses. Even if unprecedented mutated individuals appeared among the aberrations, this conclusion remained unchanged.
But even though the enemy's offensive was successfully defended, one cannot just easily relax their guard.
The appearance of previously unseen mutated individuals among the aberrations is itself a rather bad signal—especially the intelligence tendencies of these mutants, which are particularly unsettling. What caused their mutation? Is this mutation widespread? Will it continue to evolve? This time, the monsters had limited intelligence and not many in number, but what about next time? And the time after that?
