Chapter 1636: Deep into the Void
As the capital, Zulbahar, entered a full state of war readiness.
In addition to patrol guards appearing throughout the streets,
the Great Mausoleum Zone, the surface entrance to the corpse repository, had also received additional powerful guards.
Besides the Corpse Eater Guards, whose bodies were covered in mouths and who had to feed constantly under the influence of the demon tome,
there was an even more dangerous creature: the "Fasting Bishop" Basel. Spiralbone had mentioned before, a Special Existence with M.O.'s direct bloodline that had inherited a branch of the Corpse Eater Rituals.
Rumor had it that across the entire Zothique Continent, there were no more than three Fasting Bishops.
Mythical Body
Fasting Bishop—Ilfani. Corpseburial
She had transcended the very concept of a ghoul and was also known as M.O.'s left arm. She managed every graveyard across the Zothique Continent and was responsible for elite selection, as well as the creation and selection of Corpse Eater Guards.
An iron mask was hooked into her skin with curved barbs, sealing her mouth completely as a symbol of fasting.
After going so long without eating properly,
her once-powerful body had withered away. Wrapped in a corpse-skin robe, she floated through the air with extreme lightness... Countless shriveled arms could vaguely be seen emerging and vanishing within the robe.
A Fasting Bishop, just as the name implied.
Ilfani had once been a Corpse Eater Guard herself.
When she used her own willpower to resist the endless hunger within her and achieved true fasting, her entire being had undergone sublimation. It signified complete mastery over "corpse eating."
"She's strong. She's probably on par with the priest in London City.
The space around her body is twisted and distorted, even forming groove-like depressions.
She has transferred the conventional concept