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> その日。彼女のもとに、招かれざる客が現れた。
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> 見る **も** 巨大な鉄の塊。長い手足の歪な人型。
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> そんな異形共が、彼女の領域を侵したのである。

What would be the function of the bold も?
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grammar idioms particle-も
Understanding the も in 見るも
見るも is better remembered as a fixed adverbial idiom "patently", "manifestly"
but usually qualifies what is shocking at first glance.

This phrase cooccurs with following adjectives across the
[BCCWJ](https://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/corpus_center/bccwj/):

word | count  
---|---  
無残/無惨/無慙/無ざん/むざん | 32  
哀れ/あわれ | 7  
恐ろしい/おそろしい | 5  
おぞましい | 4  
痛々しい | 3  
あさましい | 1  
嫌 | 1  
悲しい | 1  
きれい | 1  
燦爛 | 1  
獰猛 | 1  
悲惨 | 1  
まばゆい | 1  
まぶしい | 1  
みじめ | 1  
  
( **Edit** : a few additions during a more complete query.)

So that 見るも巨大な could be translated "awfully massive" or "monstrously huge".

This grammar belongs to the historical 連体形準体法, attaching nominal particles
directly to a verb, from the time when today's dictionary form represented
[some sort of participle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attributive_verb). It
is only surviving in proverbs and a few fixed expressions, such as [[verb] +
には](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/13057/7810), [[verb] +
がいい](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/36714/7810), and
[思うに/言うに...](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/29418/7810)
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