Opportunity

Taking advantage of the time Vino had bought with her frontal charge, along with the 'clues' that had been exposed.

Han Dong and Demps both assumed their strongest close-combat stances and launched a coordinated pincer attack.

Lord Ramsden immediately took countermeasures as well... his battle stance looked nothing like that of a psychic aberration.

Creak, creak~

The brain tissue across his back proliferated.

Through a peculiar method of differentiation, a "second body" grew from his back... dense cerebral nerves tightly connected the main body and the second body, forming a 'back-to-back' posture.

The "second body" had an entirely different outward form: a pure rat incarnation.

1. Skin: Dark rat hide wrapped around its entire body.

Strange, twisted golden runes were etched across the surface of its skin.

Pus-filled lumps the size of human heads crowded together in clusters.

2. Head: The rat's head had been shaved of fur and skin, exposing stark white bone and a pair of crazed gray eyes.

Four twisted, ever-changing curved horns grew from the top of its head.

3. Emanation: It radiated the foulest, filthiest aura in Perugia City. Pale yellow plague-light gathered over its body, thickest around its claws.

4. Equipment: The shield bearing the moon was given to the second body, allowing it to deal with attacks from both front and back.

The scene was like something out of a primeval forest.

A savage holding a bone spear and wearing animal bones, along with a hunter leading a hound, were facing off against an enormous rat the size of a mammoth.

"Demps, switch positions... I'll deal with the rat.

You hold back the main brain in front. This Sun Shield is making me suffer..."

The shields held by the lord possessed entirely different properties. After several head-on clashes, they had already identified their