86--EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 11 (light novel)

PRIDE BEFORE THE FALL It happened all too quickly. A flash, a rumble, and then silence. In an instant, an unprecedented Legion assault wrought untold destruction upon nations across the world. As humanity s borders are sent into swift decline, Shin and Lena are tasked with a large-scale rescue operation that brings them back to Republic soil after what seems like a lifetime. Yet even with humanity on the brink of extinction, they find a country that hasn t changed-one that cannot change. Many survivors view rescue by the Eighty-Six as the height of indignity. Similarly, many Eighty-Six are reluctant to lend aid to those who stripped away their humanity. But behind the cavernous, silver eyes of the mechanical ghosts lays a single, gruesome directive...