776. From the South

The mist could actually be broken without dealing with the core NPC!

Linden's rescue troops had already been prepared, but to his surprise, Inanna and Cave Four had gotten out on their own.

They had even unexpectedly developed a new strategy for clearing the mist.

He just did not know whether it was because of the scene's destruction, because they had killed large numbers of small fry, or both.

Unfortunately, this method was clearly unsuitable for anyone other than Cave Four.

And this time, Cave Four's escape might have had something to do with the external situation as well as its own efforts at destruction.

This mist surge had come ashore and been successfully repelled by the multiple defensive lines Linden had set up. Only one group had gotten lost inside it; the other teams had at most suffered some losses.

After those teams successfully cleared the mist scenes, the mist that had pushed deep inland ahead of them was cut off, becoming water without a source. Even if left alone, it would naturally dissipate.

Cave Four and Inanna had already been on the edge of this mist surge. Cave Four had indeed accelerated the mist's collapse, but even if he had not gone around crushing everything and had only protected Inanna while stalling for time, after most of a day, the mist here would still have dispersed on its own.

From the look of it now, mist was somewhat like a consumable resource to the Mist Illusion. Widespread destruction accelerated the consumption of mist.

What Linden was uncertain about was whether, when the mist had not been severed at the waist, the consumption caused by destruction like Cave Four's could exhaust a Mist Illusion that still had follow-up replenishment, just as it had this time.

If it could, then