The night was inky black, shrouding Marl Canyon. The long, narrow canyon was pitch dark, like a gaping maw leading to hell, devouring all light.
Levy and Droy stood at the edge of the canyon, looking down. Beads of sweat the size of beans trickled down Levy's taut jaw. Her fingertips traced a light blue path in the air, writing the Solid Script 'Biological Perception'.
The profound ancient script hovered in mid-air. As vibrations echoed from deep within the canyon, the array of characters rippled.
"The vanguard is about 12,000… There are targets with strong magic power reactions in the team!" Levy raised her hand, forming a sword-finger gesture, and touched her forehead, transmitting the information to her teammates using Telepathy Magic.
Below the canyon, a lean figure sat on a large boulder, dressed in neat athletic wear and wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat.
Jet slightly raised his hat brim, revealing a pair of green eyes. His deep gaze looked into the distance as he murmured, "I see them."
A large troop of White Rat People charged towards Jet on all fours.
Their eyes glowed green in the darkness, like a pack of hungry beasts, and the black iron dual tachis in their hands reflected a cold light.
Jet took a deep breath, and a green aura slowly exhaled from his nostrils. He pulled down the brim of his cowboy hat, and green gas seeped out from every pore of his body.
The next second, the boulder under his feet exploded with a roar, and the air waves flew. Jet himself transformed into a green stream of light, rushing straight into the beast horde.
The White Rat People troop did not panic, wildly brandishing the black iron dual tachis in their hands as they lunged forward.
However, Jet's speed was astonishing. He weaved through the beastmen with incredible footwork, leaving behind boiling green poisonous smoke with every step.
Almost all the beastmen who smelled the poisonous smoke clutched their chests and fell to the ground in agony after three or four seconds, dying with distorted faces. In a single encounter, the green poisonous gas had already brought down hundreds of beastmen.
The air was filled with a pungent smell of blood and poison, causing a wave of nausea.
"Scatter quickly! This human is a poison user!" a beastman shrieked in terror.
"It's highly poisonous, run!" Other beastmen scattered, trying to create distance from Jet.
Just then, from the high cliff of the canyon, a rainbow-colored script descended precisely from the sky, landing on Jet's body.
"Solid Script: Accelerate!"
A cold glint flashed in Jet's eyes as he sprinted, his speed increasing even further, almost transforming into a green blur as he moved through the beastmen.
Green poisonous gas rose, taking the lives of a large number of beastmen.
Just as Jet was bravely charging through the formation, a sudden chill ran through him.
"Human brat, you're too presumptuous!" a furious roar came from the beastman ranks. A tall, thin man with a purple leopard head glared, raised his hand towards Jet, and purple lightning gathered in his palm.
Jet instinctively looked up, only to see a purple lightning bolt blocking his path. The lightning grew larger in front of his eyes. It was too late to dodge, but the green-eyed youth showed no fear.
In the nick of time, a flash of bright tachi light brushed past him, easily annihilating the lightning.
In the dark canyon, Ikaruga, dressed in a pure white kimono, walked slowly, carrying her unsheathed tachi.
Her wooden clogs made crisp sounds on the ground, and the tachi's pale red blade carried a faint scent of blood.
"Leave the troublesome ones to me." Ikaruga's gaze locked onto the leopard-headed man, raising her tachi to her chest, its blade pointing directly at her opponent.
"Be careful." Jet turned and gave Ikaruga a thumbs-up, then squatted slightly, fully activating the magic power in his body, and green poisonous gas emanated from his pores.
Jet was enveloped in green poisonous gas, and his Divine Speed activated again, turning him into a green blur as he charged into the enemy crowd.
At the same time, Ikaruga also moved.
The girl's figure flickered with her tachi, and the next moment she appeared in front of the leopard-headed man. A flash of sword light passed.
The leopard-headed man, who had been about to cast a spell, suddenly froze in place. A line of blood spread downwards from his forehead, and his body split and fell to the ground.
Ikaruga swung her tachi to shake off the blood, and the crimson blade reflected the terrified faces of the surrounding beastmen.
Droy leaped down from a thirty-meter-high rock platform, and his seed pouch at his waist automatically opened.
The boy grabbed five emerald-colored seeds in each hand, and a jade green light glowed at his fingertips: "Bloom! Strangling Vines!"
The moment the seeds touched the ground, wrist-thick thorns burst forth.
These specially made vines were covered in barbs, and each spike secreted highly corrosive mucus.
The White Rat People, relying on their numerical advantage, pushed through Jet's poison with great difficulty, only to be entangled by the rapidly growing plants. Their flesh immediately began to emit pungent white smoke.
Their metal armor became brittle under the corrosive poison. Droy snapped his fingers: "Strangulate!"
The vines tightened abruptly, and fragments of armor and flesh burst simultaneously, creating a chilling sound.
Jet continuously pushed off and returned from the rock walls, and the network of poisonous fog became denser. The entire battlefield transformed into an emerald-colored labyrinth of death.
He moved like a green ghost among the beastmen, leaving a trail of death with every pass.
"The natural retention of poison gas can only last for thirty seconds, Levy, it's up to you!" Jet shouted up at the cliff while running.
"No problem!" The petite bespectacled girl aimed her hands at the poisonous area below, activating her magic power to write several ancient characters, "Air Flow Barrier!"
The rainbow-colored ancient script, glowing with rainbow light, descended from the sky, transforming into a hemispherical transparent energy shield that completely enveloped the area dense with poisonous gas.
The poisonous gas, which should have naturally dispersed with the wind, was fixed in place under the protection of the energy shield, forming a large poisonous gas domain that cut off the path through the canyon.
Jet's poison gas was astonishingly effective; once beastmen were exposed to it, they would die of respiratory failure in just a few seconds.
With the obstruction of the poisonous gas, these beastmen simply couldn't get through the canyon and were constantly being poisoned.
Stronger beastmen in the troop could push through the poison, but the outer perimeter had large areas of mutated thorns planted by Droy as a second line of defense.
And at the very outer perimeter, there was still Ikaruga as the final interceptor.
After nearly two hours of fierce fighting, the sound of the Blue Pegasus airship's engine came from the other end of the canyon.
Jet, who was already exhausted, covered his face with his cowboy hat and lay flat, "I want to eat ten servings of honey-glazed grilled meat…" He was snoring before he even finished speaking.
Droy lay on the ground without any regard for his image, his head resting on his seed pouch, panting heavily, "Finally, reinforcements have arrived."
Levy leaned against Ikaruga, adjusted her glasses, and let out a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to speak, a telepathic message suddenly came from deep within her mind.
"Levy, can you hear me? It's Warren. The Master orders you to return to the guild quickly after reinforcements arrive. Mystogan is gravely injured!"
The brief message instantly re-tightened Levy's previously relaxed nerves.
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