"Moonbeam Greatsword."
An abnormal noise sounded right in front of them, and Shade drew his glowing two-handed greatsword and swung it forward.
Immediately, the sword struck something hidden within the thick darkness. The Moonbeam Greatsword's own light could only illuminate a very small area around its blade, so even after hitting the enemy, Shade could only tell that it was very short and wore a black robe.
Shade's attack had not worked, but the girl beside him was a Sixth Ring Arcanist. After Shade's sword made the sound of striking something, she threw an object forward that was completely impossible to see in the darkness.
The maid wrinkled her nose.
"Above us!"
Shade swung his sword upward again, and Silver Moon's arc of light briefly left a trace in the darkness.
Clang!
He again felt the Moonbeam Greatsword strike something immensely powerful, only to lose track of the target afterward.
"Can you still detect its position?"
He bit open the tip of his left index finger, smeared the blood over the ring on his right hand, then pressed the ring's face against the blade of the Moonbeam Greatsword.
The Exorcism Symbol was completely imprinted upon the Moonbeam Greatsword. Strangely, Shade's blood possessed an even more conspicuous silver glow in this darkness than the light radiating from his body.
"Behind us."
He swept his sword toward that direction again. This strike was blocked as well, but a miserable shriek that nearly pierced their eardrums suddenly rang out in the darkness.
The thick darkness instantly thinned, allowing Shade at last to see what his opponent looked like. It was a hunched, curled-up humanoid creature wearing a tattered black robe. It was the size of a child, its entire body wrapped in the robe, with only two withered yellow legs as thin as