"Splash!" Amid the dense curtain of rain, in the jungle surrounding the Allied Forces' communications hub base station troops in D33 Area, Lyria Colwyn felt the raindrops striking against her. She wore green jungle camouflage beneath gray-black light magitech armor, with large quantities of multifunctional magitech devices and tool kits stored in her storage slots. Her grayish-brown hair was cut short to her ears.
Her brown eyes remained fixed on the narrow valley path outside the jungle, nestled between two mountain peaks and especially dark beneath the rain. Her freckled, unusually thin face showed no expression.
She bent slightly, lowered her back, and blended into the surrounding darkness like an exceptionally patient cheetah quietly awaiting its prey.
The moment the enemy revealed themselves, she would become an arrow loosed from the bow and, with an edge they could not resist, tear apart every fool trying to overturn the course of this battle.
As the holder of the Silent Domain Spell, Lyria was better at ambushes than frontal combat.
After all, once her spell was deployed, it could create an area-wide slowing barrier and thereby restrict ballistic attacks.
Yet Lyria believed that the Colwin Family spell's ability to weaken sound over an area—and, once one's magical power reached the required level, even completely erase the sounds produced by movement—was its most powerful attribute.
After all, the Slayfort Family, who possessed the Phantom Spell Formation, an ability similar to that of the Colwin Family, had already demonstrated through the Black Eagle Special Forces just how formidable silent killing could be.
If the family had not been crushed by the terrifying power of Mage Soldiers in its past conflicts with the Empire, suffering severe losses among its core members until fewer than four hundred clansmen remained who truly mastered Unique Formulas and possessed