This was an incredibly difficult battle—for the bodyguards of the ancient castle.
They had never encountered such a strange and terrifying plant.
The passageways, windows, floors, and even ceilings...everywhere was covered in dense, astonishingly powerful plant roots.
Even the corpse ghouls, who had been modified to possess physical abilities far beyond those of ordinary humans, were like little insects caught in a trap when faced with the plants' entanglement.
One after another, the ghoul bodyguards were attacked by the plants, drained of every drop of moisture, and hung up as dried corpses.
At this moment, only a single ghoul bodyguard remained beside Butler Mr. Leisa.
"Why did this happen..."
The last ghoul bodyguard's spirit was already on the verge of collapse. In fact, these ghouls created through modification were mentally unstable to begin with.
But every vampire in the ancient castle was so powerful that the constant sense of danger kept their inner savagery suppressed. Once fear surpassed their fragile rationality, however, the situation became unimaginably terrible.
"We only went to find Chef Nelson...why did it turn out like this?"
They had suddenly encountered these terrifying plants spreading through the passageway... The drastic change had taken place in the blink of an eye.
Now, it was the only one left.
It instinctively looked back at the butler, whose dark circles were unusually distinct. He stood there expressionlessly, and the ghoul bodyguard could not help shivering.
"Mr. Leisa...save me...please, save me—!"
Butler Mr. Leisa immediately stepped forward. The last ghoul bodyguard was delighted, but in the next instant, Mr. Leisa's palm pierced straight through its chest at lightning speed.
The last ghoul bodyguard wanted to say something...but it could not. More than a dozen sharp plant roots behind it pierced through its body and lifted it into the air.
Countless fine