With Wyvern Riders providing an escort, the Wood Elf mages, Locke included, had exhausted their strength, but their individual safety was basically assured.
Following Soros's intentions, they were sent directly to a safe area in the rear.
At the same time, in the ruins of the city, with the suppression from Energy Drain gone, the fiend's body finally condensed into shape, yet it still could not break free.
Countless Entangling Vines that had grown by absorbing the fiend's energy had actually transformed directly into a natural cage, trapping it inside.
Every one of those Entangling Vines was frighteningly thick now. Had the fiend been in its original state, it might have been able to force its way through, but at this moment, after enduring the combined assault of Bolevin, Locke, and the Wood Elf mage corps, its severe energy loss had caused its entire body to shrink drastically as well.
The fiend's size had now been forcibly suppressed to the thirty-meter range.
Under these circumstances, the crisscrossing Entangling Vines were practically a Heavenly Net, leaving the fiend nowhere to break through in the short term.
"Damn it! We're only this close!"
On top of the wall, White Butcher, who had confirmed the latest situation through the Eye of Insight, could not help but slam his fist, a trace of frustration flashing across his face.
If Locke and the Wood Elf mage corps had been just a little stronger, they might have been able to finish it off directly.
But there was no point dwelling on that now. The most important thing was how to deal with what came next.
Although the thirty-meter fiend was far smaller than it had been at the beginning, it was still terrifyingly huge to the Lizardmen and humans. It truly was not something they could