His arm was torn off, and as he turned, it was swallowed into [Timid Ghoul]'s oral cavity—
The tentacles vanished and its mouth returned to normal, but the Eerie Aura emanating from [Timid Ghoul] was clearly wrong.
Its eyes were pitch-black, its eyeballs nowhere to be seen, and it spoke in a voice it had never used before. "I am not... [Timid Ghoul]..."
"My Master is... [Fortune Mask]... I'm an Experiment Subject created by [Twenty Thousand] gate..."
As it spoke, [Timid Ghoul]'s body began to change.
After swallowing Jiu Ye's arm along with that cutlass, terrifying cracks spread across [Timid Ghoul]'s body, as though it were about to be torn into pieces...
Jiu Ye saw at a glance that [Timid Ghoul] was "adapting" to the Pirate Cutlass!
This Rarest Eerie Weapon, the cutlass, was actually called the [Noah Eerie Blade]. It was the reward Dungeon Order had granted him according to the rules after that Main Quest concluded.
Under normal circumstances, even if the [Noah Eerie Blade] was taken, the panel controlling the Authority would still remain in Jiu Ye's hands.
But at that moment, Jiu Ye could clearly feel his Authority being "shared"—or rather, stripped away!
That Adaptive Privilege was actually this domineering?!
[Timid Ghoul] had been something Jiu Ye picked up from a Dungeon behind the collapsing [Twenty Thousand] gate after the "great upheaval" caused by that Main Quest's impact, when riots had swept through multiple gates.
After discovering the Adaptive Privilege set within [Timid Ghoul], as well as its freedom from the Gates' restraints, Jiu Ye had treated it as a Contract Eerie and brought it aboard the Ghost Ship...
Jiu Ye knew absolutely nothing about [Timid Ghoul]'s backstory in the [Time Dungeon], nor about its assigned role.
And at that moment, it was precisely this "unknown"