Long Battle Line

"Another one down!"

"Come on, let's head to the Fourteenth Legion's territory in the west!"

"Aigner just lured the Mutated Ones over there. Once the insect swarm cuts off their formation, we'll go around the back and take out another one!"

Secret Tunnel

Research Cost: 1,000 Stone, 10 Sulfur

Effect: The Maze will not trap allies. In the dark corners, independent open tunnels are hidden.

A corner of the Maze.

The Legion Commanders, having just finished a siege, were moving through the Maze's hidden tunnels toward the southwest.

Where they had just departed from, Mutated Ones' bodies carpeted the ground.

Three insectoids dragged the corpses onto their backs one by one and headed back toward the center of the city, intending to turn them into fertilizer for cultivating Withered Overlord Flowers.

At this very moment,

it was already the night of the second day since the battle had begun.

After a prolonged campaign of maneuvering, the Awakened of the Underground Fortress were exhausted in both body and mind.

Yet, to avoid hurting morale, they forced themselves to keep fighting.

The number of Mutated Ones had decreased, but they were still assaulting the Maze.

On the human side, they relied on the Maze's vast area and self-repairing effect, while also adopting strategies of dividing the enemy and maneuvering around them. Only then had they managed to hold the battle line.

And up to this point,

the elite team formed by the Legion Commanders had already successfully taken down three Fifth Stage Mutated Ones.

With only one Fifth Stage Awakened on their side,

such a record was nothing short of brilliant.

"..."

In the pitch-black tunnel, the people who had achieved victory after victory felt suppressed inside.

After two straight days of combat, their bodies and minds had reached their