"What's your name?" Yu Jing asked.
"Wendy. Wendy von Harperfina." Zombie Girl softly gave her name.
"Mm, I'm Yu Jing."
Zombie Girl smiled and nodded. "I know your name is Yu Jing. Almost everyone in our year knows about you. I also heard Garton mention how powerful you were at the Title Tournament... I didn't really understand what he was talking about, but you sound super amazing! To snatch a precious King-tier title from the hands of the freakish geniuses of the Divine Kingdom—now that's incredible! It's nice to meet you."
Just as Zombie Girl extended her cold palm to shake Yu Jing's hand, she suddenly noticed that his backpack had split open and produced a pale arm radiating a terrifying aura. The joints twisted with a "'Hee hee hee!'" sound, making Zombie Girl's hair stand on end. She immediately backed away three steps.
"Wh-what is that!?"
Zombie Girl had ranked fifteenth in the Second Stage of Transcendence competition at the Military Nation Ability Institute. Because of her naturally timid personality, she had failed to display her full strength. In reality, she was fully capable of ranking tenth.
During her usual missions, Wendy had encountered, at most, B-rank ghosts in their "Perfected Form." She had never encountered an A-rank "Disaster-class" ghost. Naturally, the aura of Kayako terrified her.
"It's nothing. She's just my helper! Come on. Follow me toward Nanlaka's Secret Room. Can you conceal your aura?"
"I can. I'm already practically a complete zombie, so concealing my aura is easy... I also wanted to ask, did you use some kind of space-related ability to appear beside me just now?"
"Yes."
Suddenly, an admiring glow shone in Zombie Girl's eyes, which had been clouded with Gray Fog. "Wow!... I heard that top-tier abilities like 'spatial transfer' can only be mastered