The Storm Griffin Group flew eastward, their massive wings carving through the sky and leaving fourteen distinct contrails in their wake.
Over an hour later, a damp and slightly cloying scent began to fill the air.
The distant sky looked as if it were shrouded in a thin, gray-green veil—the signature miasma of the Jade Swamp.
Like unsheathed blades, the fourteen Storm Griffins plunged diagonally into the gray-green haze.
The deeper they flew, the thicker the miasma became, and visibility dropped accordingly.
Sunlight struggled to pierce the miasma, casting mottled patterns of light and shadow across the swamp's surface, adding an eerie quality to the already mysterious region.
The intelligence report only mentioned that the ruins of the Giant Dragon Temple were in the southwestern part of the Jade Swamp, with no specific coordinates provided.
