Batana’s troops landed on the second floor of the garrison, and she also found this nearly undefended situation strange. She thought for a mont and imdiately ordered her troops to disperse.
Lynch hid to the side, observing the matron’s movents. With just an Invisibility Technique, the mage did not believe he could fully escape Batana’s surveillance. He noticed that when the matron scanned the surroundings, her gaze paused noticeably at his location. It seed that the matron already had a magic effect on her that could see through illusions.
There was, however, another way to escape such anti-invisibility magic surveillance, and that was to use Enchantnt Magic. After the last battle, Lynch learned a trick from the mage who could attack remotely using magic: if one could suggest a way to make the opponent’s mind ignore a certain target, then the sa hidden effect could be achieved. However, there were limitations to this thod: firstly, it could only achieve this effect for a single target; secondly, many creatures are immune to ntal attacks, especially powerful undead; lastly, the risk of using this thod was too great, and the spell’s effect on the opponent’s spirit was not very apparent to the spellcaster.
Lynch thought for a mont and decided to abandon this thod. As a powerful Dark Elf Matriarch, Batana was certainly an expert in spellcasting, spiritual control, and attack. Using Enchantnt Magic on such a master was not much different from courting death.
Batana always kept Zilvra by her side, which denied Lynch the opportunity to draw away the white-skinned Drow and protect her alone. It seed Batana, already aware of the mage’s dilemma, deliberately used this thod to indirectly force Lynch to serve the family’s battle—with Zilvra’s safety hanging in the balance, the mage had no choice but to eliminate potential threats first.
Lynch sighed; his options were now limited. Just as before entering this garrison, to leave with Zilvra, he had to go all out and deal with the present obstacle first.
Lynch took one last look at Zilvra and then swiftly turned and flew away. He did not intend to confront the entire second family alone; lacking such strength and certainly not being foolish, Lynch’s current target was to strike those who might threaten Zilvra’s safety, especially the matron of the second family!
The matron’s na was Briza, a young Dark Elf Female Priest by age, having taken over the second family for only a few decades, her prestige in Ratris City was far from established, and compared to Batana’s power, it was even more distant. Presumably, the decision of the first family to finally attack them was largely related to this aspect as well.
Finding a specific target in the complex and unfamiliar garrison was no easy task, but for Lynch, who possessed the Eye of Insight and Arcane Vision, it would not be much trouble. Illusions, obstacles, and all hidden chanisms and traps lost their original effectiveness, as Lynch detected these things in advance and avoided these dangerous areas long before, leaving the slowly but cautiously advancing first family far behind.
Now, the mage was like an assault vanguard, tearing through layers of defense. Lynch held a Daylight Brightness Technique scroll, ready at all tis to use intense light to paralyze the defenses of the Dark Elves. Their fear of bright light significantly hindered the Drow’s expansion efforts, and although they had made corresponding defenses against this weakness, such racial deficiencies could not be overco in just a day or two.
After advancing for a while, Lynch finally "found to his satisfaction" the defensive force of the Drow, which allowed him to breathe a great sigh of relief. If there wasn’t a single Dark Elf in this garrison, it would only suggest that they intended to use this fortress as a large sack to thoroughly bury all the invading elves.
The warriors and priests of the second family pulled back their defense, gathering with their family-raised demon beasts to surround the core of the garrison, clearly intending to defend their core audience room with all their might. Lynch estimated that the matron of their family must be in that room, perhaps right now engaging in communion with the Spider Goddess, or maybe she was desperately pleading for the "great" goddess to grant them "blessing and protection," hoping to use it to sustain the family’s prosperity.
Lynch observed the position of the audience room; he held little hope for a frontal breakthrough of the tightly defended Dark Elves. They were already on full alert, with poison arrows that sealed the throat upon sight and spells that could kill with one hit long poised to strike, just waiting for so impulsive "target" to appear.
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