Chapter 462 - 455. Fortress of Trees
"Yep--that’s a whole horde, alright."
The advance troop of the Anzus squad looked down from the cliff they came from. Below them, there was a basin filled to the brim with miasmic beasts. Hundreds of them. From small scythe-armed flying squirrels, to ones that were as big as moose. They looked chaotic, but also somewhat orderly. At least, they didn’t fight among themselves and instead, faced a huge wall in front of them--which was on the squad’s left side.
"Kinda looks like undead from up here."
"Ugh--is it bad that I think it’s disgusting?"
"Nope."
Dheera shuddered at the cocktail of miasmic beasts below. It wasn’t just the visual--the sounds they made together were grating; growling, snarling, hissing, screeching, and thumping sounds that were mixed with something otherwordly.
She had her fair share of dungeon experiences, but she had never seen anything like this before. After all, most beasts in the dungeons did not mingle with another kind of beasts, unless they were in a specific mutual symbiosis relationship.
These creatures, however, not only gathered together without fighting, but had their eyes on a specific target.
"Is that the trees?" Carra gasped softly.
Amidst the darkness and the grotesque vision, the ’wall’ felt weirdly alive with its dark brown and green color. The barks of the lining trees fuse together to make an impenetrable fortress, shooting up high into the dark canopy and creating a protective dome of tree fortress.
"We only saw it from below before, but...looking at it from up here, it really is majestic," Han Shin said.