An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

“Damn! What the heck are these things? Why are there so many of them?

“I can’t kill them all! It’s like a relentless wave, one after another.”

“We have to find a way out. If we continue like this, we’ll exhaust ourselves and die here!”

“”The fog is everywhere. I can’t even see which way to go, and these shadows just keep coming. How can we find a way out?”

Chaos engulfed the Dragon Guard members, transitioning from disdain to shock and fear. Ultimately, it descended into despair. The issue wasn’t their incapacity to defeat the shadows but the absence of hope for survival.

With each shadow they vanquished, two more emerged, steadily increasing in numbers. As their comrades fell in each assault, the attrition pushed them closer to total annihilation.

To them, escape seemed impossible.

“Elder Reed, the situation is worsening. What should we do now?” The black- clad man, fending off enemies, sought assistance from the red-robed elder beside him.

The black-clad man had to fend off shadow attacks while navigating the surroundings carefully. A single misstep could leave him mired, restricting movement and making him an easy target for the shadows. After all, most of their fallen companions had succumbed to this trap earlier.

The red-robed elder replied irritably, ” Why are you asking me? Who the heck else should I turn to?”

If it were a simple fog formation, breaking it with his eye technique would have been easy. However, the complexity arose from an additional, more intricate layer of the formation over the fog.

eye technique to its

being ensnared with no escape plan wasn’t

helpless. Despite his power, continuous assaults from the

would lead to his

tricks on us, ambushing Dragon Guard members like this? When I escape, they’ll

yourselves, you

Still, nothing had prepared

was a frustrating agony that he had never experienced before. He added, “Since

desperation, the black-clad man, in a moment of madness, led his team in a futile charge. Despite their hopes, luck wasn’t

each of them was surrounded and killed by the shadows.

that initially numbered dozens was ultimately

“Ah!”

The red-robed elder, consumed by anger and descending into madness,

instead of breaking the formation, this action only hastened the depletion of his energy. Before long, he was exhausted and sweating

seemingly endless and relentless. Filled with despair and resentment, he questioned who had betrayed

the Chief Guildmaster’s orders, the red-robed elder undertook a covert mission where discretion was paramount. This top-secret assignment was known only to a

that moment, he suspected that there was a traitor within their ranks. In the area outside the formation, the experts

within the

of light representing human lives were rapidly diminishing. Ultimately, only one light remained. Even that light gradually faded after persevering for