They marched through the forest a giant ball of mayhem with little to no coordination between them. One could tell with a mere glance that this was a ragtag group of men that were thrown together with no discipline at all.
"Hey John, is the forest moving?" a man asked as he nudged his buddy next to him.
"How could the forest move? It's probably the wind you are seeing." John rolled his eyes as he turned to look where his friend pointed.
In the treeline he noticed vaguely that the foliage in front was moving back and forth everywhere he could see. It was as if the bushes were all waving at them. Taunting them.
"What the hell is happening?" he said as he stared into the forest trying to see what was causing the movement.
*SNAP* *THUD*
"AHHHHHH"
A scream of pain was heard as two men who were walking in front of John had just fallen into a pitfall trap and were impaled, one of them dying instantly and the other screaming as his leg had just been pierced through by a spike.
"We are under attack! Defend your positions!" Lei Fu screamed as he turned to look in the forest watching as hundreds of three foot tall figures walked out of the forest. They were made of tree bark and vaguely resembled the shapes of humans with no facial features and only small slits for eyeballs.
The army had come.
As the lightning gang began to move into more defensible positions all around them pitfalls began to open up as they were caught by surprise falling into them one by one.
The twig blights began to charge as they ran out of the forest, a few of them fell into some pitfall traps, but easily climbed back out as wooden spikes would not harm them. Within seconds the wave of blights crashed into the lightning gang army from both sides as the two forces clashed.
The men of the lightning gang began to hack away at numerous twig blights as each man had to face multiple enemies at a time being quickly surrounded by the vast amount of foes. Easily slicing the twig blight a slash or two was enough to end them in most cases.
The twig blights pounced on the men as they used their numbers in order to topple them before swiftly ending their lives piercing their flesh with their sharp wooden claws.
Total mayhem erupted as any semblance of cohesion Lei Fu was able to enforce in their ranks had now gone up in flames as every man began to fight for their lives only caring for themselves. There was not much to expect from a bunch of local thugs.
Fredrick Dingle began to chant as he sent out blades of wind bisecting twig blights in waves causing mass casualties to the Verdant Depth's army.
"YOUR ENEMY IS ME!" Adrian shouted as he quickly controlled the tree's near Fredrick to pierce towards him attempting to swiftly end him. A magus was the best counter to a magus after all.
Fredrick quickly waved a staff he was holding as a shield of wind appeared before him blocking the branches before dissipating into thin air.
"So you are the leader of the army then?" Fredrick said as he frowned "Killing you will finish this much faster then!" He sent blades of wind hurtling towards Adrian who was standing on a tree at the edge of his army.
Adrian was the only one who was able to attack Fredrick from this range as he was in the middle of the entire lightning gang at the most protected point.
Adrian quickly dodged as he threw Berry Bomb's towards Fredrick that were quickly blocked. The difference between the two types of magus was showing at this moment.
Magus of the world Adrian was currently in cast magic using the mana through words while Adrian had to use runes. This meant that although Adrian could cast magic that he had condensed runes for almost instantly any other magic would take time for him to draw out the rune in mid air using mana.
Magus of this world were able to use words, so they were able to cast all forms of magic with a string of words, naturally stronger magic needed more words, but in fights like this Fredrick was able to send out more spells than Adrian putting Adrian at a disadvantage.
The slight advantage Adrian had was that his runic magic was stronger as the mana it drew from was in a solidified state. The Runes.
Adrian darted from tree to tree as he tried to harass Fredrick from range, he would switch between using animate plants and berry bomb but all his attempts were squashed with the defenses of Fredrick and his casting speed.
"Quit running little man! I will show you what a real Magus looks like!" Fredrick said as he sent more wind blades out. It looked as if Fredrick had a very limited amount of spells he could cast because of his low magus rank.
Adrian frowned as he realized this was getting him nowhere, he decided to use his trump card. He needed to eliminate that magus as fast as possible.
"HAMMER DOWN!" Adrian yelled as a giant wooden hammer appeared in mid air above the center of the lightning gang. The hammer's handle was about six feet long and the head of the hammer was around four feet across.
It slammed towards Fredrick's position and in a desperate attempt to save himself Fredrick put up a wind shield as he rolled sideways attempting to get out of the way.
The wind shield was easily ripped apart as the wooden hammer came hurtling towards Fredrick's fear stricken face.