The reinforcements that had appeared out of nowhere left the bugs inside the smelting plant bewildered.
Still, though they did not understand what was happening, they knew one thing: a miracle had truly appeared.
This army that had suddenly arrived, capable of fighting the Blue Blood monsters, was a ray of hope breaking through their despair.
They could survive. The bugs inside the smelting plant no longer sat around waiting to die.
Their spirits revived, and they resumed loading their crossbows to attack the isolated blue monsters.
Even if their help barely tipped the scales of victory,
they still did what little they could.
But compared with their careful tactics, Gron was far more direct at the center of the battlefield.
In his left hand, he held Indomitable, a shield made from the hardest carapace of the giant earth-devouring worm that had ravaged the Wilderness for decades.
In his right was Fireflow Cloud, a divine weapon the Snail Shaman had enchanted using Soulfire and the distilled insights of his own path.
With these two mighty weapons, Gron carved a dark gray road straight through the sea of blue.
A beast suddenly appeared? Thrust!
Gron lunged straight ahead, driving the spearpoint forward with his waist. The thrust followed a single line, precisely piercing the beast's torso.
A bloated chimeric monster that obviously looked ready to explode? Smash!
He slammed his sturdy shield into it, instantly driving its bloated blue body into the ground. The ensuing explosion could not even leave a mark on the shield.
They meant to surround him with superior numbers? Sweep them apart!
Pivoting through his waist and hips, Gron struck a beast with Fireflow Cloud, then channeled his strength through it as though cracking a whip.
The beast impaled on his spearhead became a hammer, smashing the