With Rhett's death, the rat swarm he had previously controlled collapsed and scattered.
The triangular encirclement formation collapsed.
Pamela didn't see how Allen killed Rick, but her vantage point allowed her to spot a hole in the enemy's encirclement before Duke and Angel.
She immediately called out to her teammates and retreated north.
"Captain! Come here!"
Allen stood on a small hill north of the mine, waving at Pamela and the others.
Soon, the three of them arrived.
"Alan! I'm so glad you're safe."
Angel's tired face was filled with joy.
Duke glanced at Allen and snorted, "You haven't been out all night. Where have you been?"
Allen felt... at this moment, asking such a question was beyond the realm of tactlessness and emotional intelligence.
He didn't bother to waste words and simply ignored Duke's questioning.
Pamela remained in her storm elemental form.
Her voice was as powerful as thunder and lightning.
"Aside from the two traitors, Andy is the only one who hasn't returned to the team yet!"
"Alan, have you seen Andy?"
"Captain Pamela, not long ago, I saw Senior Andy crawling into the mine."
Alan looked honest.
"I was in a hurry to come here to provide support and didn't pay attention to Senior Andy's whereabouts."
Pamela nodded and said in a deep voice, "The most urgent thing is to get rid of those two stinking rats. We can find Andy later!"
Alan followed Pamela's gaze.
The two remaining plague warlocks seemed to sense the reversal of the situation and were faintly thinking of retreating.
But at that moment, a sharp scream suddenly echoed through the night sky. Immediately, a swarm of spiders, larger than wheels, came hurtling over the hillside.
On the back of one of the giant spiders sat a masked, blue-robed sorceress.
"Spanna! You're finally here!"
Necromancers Jamie and Sarah breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh no! Reinforcements are coming!" Angel said anxiously. "We'd better retreat now, while there's still time."
Alan had the same plan.
The sorceress commanding a swarm of giant spiders seemed even more formidable than the Necromancer.
Even if their side was four against three, their chances of winning were slim.
His premonition was soon confirmed.
The blue-robed sorceress leaped from the spider's back and made a series of hand gestures.
A dense web suddenly erupted from the ground, trapping Alan and the others.
Aside from Pamela, who could fly, the other three had no way to escape.
Of course, even if the path were completely blocked by spiderwebs, Alan could still use his "Phantom Step" to escape.
The problem was that exposing this trump card in public would inevitably lead to trouble.
Alan didn't want to go that far unless absolutely necessary.
"Haha... I finally caught you little bugs."
Sorceress Spanna sneered from behind her mask.
"Now, it's time to close the net."
As she finished speaking, a glowing magic circle appeared beneath her feet.
This time, the monster summoned was a level larger than an ordinary giant spider!
The oversized spider, like a spherical fortress, sprouted eight long legs.
The diameter of its abdomen alone was nearly ten meters wide!
Its terrifying face bulged with a pair of slime-covered fangs. Each of the spider's eyes was the size of a soccer ball!
Alan's scalp tingled!
This oversized spider alone was enough to put their team in a difficult position.
A head-on confrontation was a sure win, so they had to consider retreat.
At that moment, two figures suddenly appeared on the opposite hillside.
They were galloping and leaping at an astonishing speed, hurtling towards them!
In the blink of an eye, they appeared in the sight of Alan and the others.
They were a man and a woman, both wearing the uniforms of the Warlock Academy.
The male warlock was extremely burly, even taller than Alan.
The female warlock had a slender waist and long legs, her short golden hair gleaming in the moonlight.
Alan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't contain his surprise. He shouted to the female warlock, "Senior Sister!!"
The female warlock, galloping towards them, was none other than Tanya.
Hearing his junior brother's call, he immediately responded with a long howl.
It sounded like a dragon's roar, relentless and resonant, shaking the entire wilderness!
This long howl itself was a remarkable martial art.
The people surrounding the mine, including the rats and spiders...
Hearing Tanya's howl, their hearts trembled, a sense of inexplicable fear welling up in them.
Spanna, Jamie, and Sarah all paled.
The rats and spiders under their control had far less willpower than their masters.
They were so frightened that they erupted in panic and fled in all directions.
The three of them quickly held their breath, concentrating their minds and using telepathy to calm the frightened rats and spiders.
Instantly, Tanya and the burly young man arrived at the scene.
"Brother Marvin! Leave those rats to you. I'll take care of the biggest spider!"
Tanya said to the burly young man beside her.
"Haha! Piece of cake!"
Marvin, the young master of the Ganesha family, smiled and nodded, casually unbuttoning his robe and throwing it to the ground.
His already enormous frame suddenly expanded!
As Allen and the others watched in astonishment, he transformed into a bizarre giant with a human body and an elephant's head.
"Elephant-man bloodline..."
Alan pondered.
This was the atavistic form of the Ganesha family's violent sorcerer.
An elephant-headed giant, its two tusks like scimitars.
Raising its thick trunk, it charged towards the densest area of rats across the way, suddenly letting out a long, whistle-like wail.
Accompanied by a roar from its trunk, terrifying sonic waves erupted. The waves expanded forward, layer upon layer, like a thousand waves!
Giant rats and giant spiders were crushed to dust wherever they passed, leaving a bloody mess on the ground.
Even further away, Tanya activated her ancestral form, transforming into a muscular, twin-horned giantess!
Her hair, originally cropped short, grew wildly and elongated after her transformation.
Thick, waist-length hair, like a golden waterfall, swung behind the giantess's head, dancing wildly in the night sky.
The bull-headed giantess suddenly leaped into the air.
Like a meteorite, she slammed into the ground.
Bang!
Tanya stomped her foot, and the earth trembled and roared.
With the giantess's landing as the center, countless cracks appeared in the ground, radiating outward in irregular, twisting patterns.
The rats and spiders in the earthquake zone panicked.
Most were swallowed by the bottomless ravine before they could escape.
The giantess leaned forward, clenched her fists, and assumed a running stance.
With a powerful push of her heels, she stomped the ground hard!
With a whoosh, the tall, muscular figure vanished into thin air!
Only two large footprints, half a meter deep, remained on the ground.
The hard ore was crushed to dust!
In a flash, Tanya appeared ten steps away in the next second.
Using the momentum of her high-speed charge, the giantess used the exaggerated horns on her forehead as weapons to slam into the oversized spiders summoned by Spanner!
Seeing this, Allen couldn't help but blurt out:
"Mountain Collapse!"
The eldest sister, in her atavistic transformation, used her giant horns to butt instead of elbow strikes, unleashing this move.
The aura could only be described in four words:
Powerful and domineering!!
Bang!
With a roar.
The oversized spider, lifted up by Tanya's horns, spun in a parabola through the night sky before slamming heavily to the ground.
The bloated body was pierced and torn by the massive horns, its stomach ruptured and intestines spilling out.
The eight claws twitched, and in an instant, it expired.
Spanna, who had just believed herself victorious, now lost her composure.
"Jamie! Sarah! Run!"
Having hastily warned her companions, Spanner transformed into a bizarre half-human, half-spider form, slinging shimmering silk from her hands.
Swish!
The silk wrapped around two distant trees.
Using them as fulcrums, Spanner leaped up, pulling at the silk, leveraging the force to glide through the air.
In a flash, with a few leaps and falls, she vanished deep within the mine.
The two second-level plague sorcerers, Jamie and Sarah, were also frightened by the overwhelming strength of Tanya and Marvin.
Without even a polite word, they scurried off.
Their masters had already fled, and the rats and spiders, their fighting spirit broken, scattered.
Soon, the mines fell silent.
Marvin and Tanya did not pursue the fleeing enemies.
The two of them unwound their atavistic transformations one after another.
Before Tanya could fully return to her original form, Allen dashed over.
With the cloak he had prepared long ago in hand, he draped it over Tanya with lightning speed.
"Senior Sister! It's windy tonight, be careful not to catch a cold!"