"Sure enough, it was the lowest class of undead creature. Its strength and agility were astonishing, but its intelligence was completely at the level of a beast. Couldn't it tell how dangerous I was?"
Shade thought to himself as his right hand drew the Moonbeam Greatsword from midair. As the Corpse Ghoul approached, he thrust forward—
"Blade of Disordered Time-Space!"
The Corpse Ghoul nimbly twisted in midair to evade Shade's first strike, only for the second blade that stabbed out of the air to pierce straight through its skull.
Its Life Force was extraordinarily tenacious. Even so, it still lunged at Shade's neck, but Shade easily dodged aside.
The moonlight in his hand swept out, and an arcing blade of light cut the Corpse Ghoul that had landed into two halves. Both halves wriggled, trying to flee, while foul-smelling blackish-green fluid flowed from the wounds.
Only after quite some time did it stop moving completely, and Shade confirmed that it had finally truly entered "death."
He narrowed his eyes at the disgusting corpse on the ground.
"Priest Augustus is only Second Ring, and he isn't good at combat. Facing a Corpse Ghoul that could be called an 'elite,' he really would have been forced into the Underground Cemetery. But he definitely couldn't have died because of that. The Priest probably has some backup plan, but it would make too much noise and would have to be used somewhere deserted."
He used the sword in his right hand to poke the hideous corpse on the ground. Quite a number of Alchemy Materials and potion ingredients could actually be extracted from such relatively powerful mutated Corpse Ghouls. But harvesting them required professional techniques and specialized equipment. Although Witch Echo · Feliana had given Shade plenty of foundational knowledge, including simple methods of