The increase in Antony's power and Cain's ability to single-handedly take care of the most powerful Early Wave Champion Beasts made it so that the military force crushed everything in their path.
Ten days before the deadline, the military force finally surpassed the end of the massive mountain range that divided their path and that of the student force, reaching Blade Mountain's foot!
From afar, Blade Mountain was a massive structure, with its peak rising for dozens of thousands of meters, but only once they were right beneath it could the soldiers perceive its majesty.
Hundreds of indentations, patches of forest, and caverns spread across the massive mountain. The density of the Life Wave around it was so deep that small clouds formed from time to time.
"Everybody get in formation!"