Half a month later, aside from the Ninth Battalion serving as the Logistics Unit, the Blue Gauze Camp, Fourth Battalion, and Fifth Battalion—more than ten thousand men in total—entered the Gray Fog Space.
They left the area shrouded in gray fog and formed up on the plain.
Velin, Kyle, O'dor, and Lester stood in the air, observing the situation around them.
Whenever intelligent beings left the area covered by gray fog, they would inevitably attract Gray creatures. This was a pattern concluded over many years by the troops stationed in the Gray Fog Space.
Half an hour later, tremors came from the ground.
In the blink of an eye, countless Gray creatures burrowed out of the earth and spread across the plain.
At a rough glance, most were Bronze Rank, numbering in the tens of thousands.
In the sky, more than a hundred Gray creatures dozens of meters long tore through the air and stopped amid the army of Gray creatures, staring at the intelligent beings near the gray fog.
Seeing the monsters' appearance, the soldiers at the front swallowed hard.
Most low-level Gray creatures resembled rats. Their forelegs bore three sharp claws, their hind legs were shaped like horse hooves, and a mouth grew from their abdomens. They had three pairs of compound eyes atop their heads, as well as a sharp maw growing from their tentacles.
"Clear out the high-level Gray creatures. Leave those Bronze Rank Gray creatures to the army."
The three of them nodded and began to act.
"Screech—"
A shrill cry rang throughout the entire space as tens of thousands of Gray creatures surged toward the military formation like a tidal wave.
More than a hundred Gold rank Gray creatures beat the wings on their backs and charged forward.
Several blades of light appeared, cutting