Lance finally understood why he hadn't encountered any monsters along the way; it turned out they knew he had infiltrated and realized they couldn't defeat him, so they chose a favorable location to ambush.
They wanted to lure Lance into the water, and once he was inside, the shaman could stir the currents, easily dragging him into the bottomless ocean abyss—a certain death.
Who knew the scent in the air would betray them, and Lance blasted them all out with a bomb.
The shaman wanted to stir up waves to engulf the entire space, and those warriors rose with the waves, reminiscent of the ten thousand heavenly soldiers besieging Sun Wukong at Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Unfortunately, Lance made a decisive escape, using space to trade away their advantage, dragging the battle to the ground.
In the passage, they could charge together three or four at a time, but the consequence was they were cut down by Lance, and now in this vast area, they could fully exert their collective power.
