Chapter 407

Before their eyes appeared a massive white whale, floating in midair, its entire body pure white, with a huge melon-shaped forehead and a ten-meter-long horn, its body covered in fin-like blades, stretching nearly a hundred meters in length.

And the source of the earlier light was unmistakably the eyes of this white whale.

The white whale before them was not alone; as the mist dispersed, dozens more sources of light emerged from within it, each representing one of these giant whales.

"What kind of creature is this?"

Lucy and the others stood frozen in shock, staring at the monster before them.

They had not never seen super-sized demons before—even demons larger than this—but never had they seen so many at once.

This must've been poking the hornet's nest of a whale pod, and even if it was their nest, this many are far too many.

And this was still on land!

Aside from the white whales before them, Erza could sense the number of white whales continuing to increase.

Lucy, usually timid, took several startled steps backward at the sight before her.

"Whoa, how many monsters are there?!"

"Ignore them, keep moving forward."

As Lucy stood stunned, watching the white whales draw closer, Erza suddenly spoke up beside her.

Considering the unknown circumstances, Erza chose to evade.

But just as Erza spoke, one white whale lunged toward them—directly at Lucy, who lagged behind.

"Lucy, watch out!"

At this, Jura, nearby, acted immediately.

Jura's strength, as one of the Ten Saint Mages, a monster regarded by RE0's people as a calamity, was still nothing before him—he struck once, and it was over.

Boom—!

The ground erupted instantly, crushing the white whale that had attacked Lucy, killing it amid its shrieks; the other white whales recoiled rapidly from Shi Zhu's impact.

"So weak? I thought they'd be stronger."

Seeing this, Natsu laughed immediately.

But his smile froze on his face before he could finish.

The mist around them swirled toward the dead white whale, and within half a minute, a fully restored white whale reappeared.

Yet with the white whale's rebirth, nothing ended.

Its massive eyes filled with blood; the next second, an astonishing sight occurred—the wounded white whale split into five others. Not just these reborn whales, but every white whale previously injured or attacked triggered a chain reaction, splitting apart as well.

At this moment, watching the scene before him,

Lin Cheng, as one of the Three Demon Beasts of the Gluttony Witch in all of RE0, naturally did not forget.

Though Lin Cheng had no puppet of the Gluttony Witch, the Gluttony High Priest possessed the same ability to create white whales.

Moreover, the Gluttony Witch, after system upgrades, was far stronger than in the original.

Likewise, the white whales' abilities had improved: not only did their splitting numbers increase, but as long as their bodies and the mist remained, they could never die.

They were not strong in power, but their numbers were sufficient to cause enough delay.

Meanwhile, the mist spreading across the entire otherworld was released by these white whales.

"Hum—!"

The moment they split, the white whales expelled mist that swelled instantly.

Seeing this, Erza released magical energy to block it, while simultaneously firing a magical sword technique that instantly killed dozens of white whales.

But barely had they died when, just as before, they revived swiftly and launched fresh attacks.

Seeing the revived, split white whales, Erza's eyes showed heaviness.

These white whales were not strong, but if they kept delaying like this, it wouldn't work.

"Ignore them, just keep moving."

Another powerful magical slash shot out, instantly killing dozens of white whales and carving a path—just then, Erza said:

"Go!"

Hearing this, Erza and the others moved at once—but before they could escape the white whale encirclement, five figures suddenly appeared ahead of them.

Two of those figures were unmistakably Shihō and Gin!