Chapter 178: The Prey
Jason’s fog took less than a minute to cover the three-kilometer radius of the valley and trap all the Phantoms inside, and Jason looked around at all his subordinates who were waiting for his command. They stood on top of the mountains and at the edge of the fog with their teeth bared and ready to pounce, and Jason only gave them one command.
"The leader is mine. Kill everyone else."
And with that command, the Legion charged forward into the Fog!
...
It was a terrifying thing to not have any of your senses. One of the phantoms who had been sitting close to a campfire stood alone as he watched the fog wash over the entire camp. He was a slender-looking creature with sharp angular features. He came from a world known as Rela more than twenty Dimensional Leaps away, and his people depended greatly on their senses to navigate their environment. He had large ears that could receive sonar signals around him and warn him of danger, and his eyes were slit like a cat’s so that they could see even in very dark areas!
But at that moment, he was going through something that he had never experienced before! He couldn’t hear or see anything at all! There were some phantoms standing close to him and he could barely pick up their voices since they were close by, but other than that, he couldn’t hear anything beyond the fog! What was this? Was it some sort of attack?
’... can’t go into the shadow!’
The man suddenly heard one of his comrades saying this with disbelief in his voice and the man quickly tried to activate the skill that allowed them to travel using the shadows. He felt his body almost melting into the ground under him, but before he could do that, he was forcefully pushed out from the darkness and back to the surface! What the hell!? Was the skill no longer working? No, that didn’t make any sense! He could still feel the skill inside him and he knew that it was more than ready to be called on, but there was something preventing it from manifesting properly!
Woosh!
Suddenly, something moved through space beside him and the man barely caught sight of it from his side vision! He turned around sharply to try and see it properly, but he wasn’t able to!
"He’s dead!"
Someone close to him shouted loudly and the man turned to see that one of their men had been run through with a sharp object! It was almost like someone used a pair of scissors to tear one side of his body to shreds!
Woosh!
Another figure quickly moved across the space right in front of him and this time the man was able to see the large silver ant that used its mandibles to tear through the woman that was standing there! The man’s eyes widened as he quickly reached for his blades! He began taking steps back in fear while looking around for any sign of danger and he spread his senses as far as he could as he struggled to pick out any sound from beyond the fog!
Although the man couldn’t see anything, the Adamantine Ant as well as all of Jason’s other subordinates could both see and hear perfectly in the fog. The Adamantine Ant was flying through the air, so there were no footsteps for the man to pick out, but even if the Adamantine Ant had been running across the ground, the man wouldn’t have been able to pick out its footsteps until it was right on top of him!
The Adamantine Ant watched the man from a distance like a predator stalking its prey. The man was taking steps back while swinging his sword around frantically to try and attack the Ant, and the Ant waited for the exact moment when the man would let his guard down for even a second!
The man was breathing heavily and there was sweat pouring out from his forehead! He swung his knife around a few more times to make sure nothing was around and he slowly brought the knives in front of him in a ready position while looking out for any sign of—
Woosh!
The ant pounced at that exact moment and caught the man off guard in its swift attack! The man couldn’t even bring up a defense as he felt a searing pain tear through his body and his belly was immediately split in two by the Ant’s sharp mandibles!
A similar scene to this one was playing out in nearly every section of the campsite! All the Phantoms were experiencing the same loss of senses that the man had experienced and only those that had stuck together were able to at least see and hear each other. But it didn’t matter how many there were in a group or what sort of skill they tried to use to defend against the Legion. There were only fifty of them in the entire group of Phantoms, and even though many of them had enough power to be regarded as Pawn Rank IIs and IIIs in Jason’s legion, they were incapable of keeping up with the sheer number of Subordinates that they were facing!
The phantoms would cut, burn, or skewer Jason’s Legion, but none of the attacks would work! It was like fighting against a horde of demons that just never stayed dead! Every time they cut one down, two would take its place! Every time they tried to turn away from one horde, they would immediately run into another horde of monsters! It was like fighting the devil!
At the center of the Black Fog, the two feline-based Phantoms quickly walked out of their meeting after they were done receiving their orders from Alpha. The Black Fog had completely cut off all sounds from the outside, so they still didn’t know that their camp was under attack. But once they saw the fog that had completely encompassed the valley, they were immediately on guard!
The female feline quickly tried to go back and tell Alpha that someone had attacked them, but before she could take two steps, three Moonlight Wolves appeared from the side and pounced on the unsuspecting pair! The Wolves grabbed the female feline and pulled her away from the tent, and the male feline immediately rushed to try and save his partner! But before he could get to her, he was suddenly grabbed from behind by Fenrir!
Fenrir swiped its paw across the air and slammed it into the male feline with enough force to throw him clear across the clearing! The male feline slammed into the ground in the middle of the fog and he coughed in pain as he felt blood leaking from a large wound on his side! He quickly tried to use the shadow to escape, but he was shocked when he felt the skill fail! He tried it again and again, and each time he failed, he felt more fear creep into his bones! What in the world was going on here? Were they under attack from some demon!?
’Is it one of our previous targets? They could have sent someone to take us out as revenge! But we were careful! We made sure no one could track us down to this dimension!’
The male feline opened his mouth to yell for anyone who was close by, but his voice barely got past two meters in front of him before it fizzled and died out without reaching anyone! He couldn’t hear anything even with his enhanced senses and he couldn’t see anything past the fog! This wasn’t just some random attacker! This was someone who knew what they were doing! A monster who made sure they created an inescapable environment!
Growl~
A growl came from right on top of the male feline and he turned around sharply while drawing his knife and pointing it at Fenrir!