For the next ten days, Black Swan and Fairness & Justice squads charged ahead at full speed. They cleared three level two purification towers and also made two return trips to the purified spot to replenish supplies.

Clearing level two purification towers was difficult as hell.

The tough opponents meant that the first years could not afford to drop their guard in the slightest, or they would risk being swarmed by white eroders.

Cannibalization was also more rife, which meant that even the surviving white eroders were usually Third Pattern or above in strength.

If not for their huge cultivation increase at the onyx lake, they would have been left cowering helplessly outside.

At the level two...