"Move!"
Even with Shade's exceptionally strong Space Perception, he could only vaguely sense the enemies' positions in another space. Only with "her" help could he pinpoint them accurately.
He stepped forward and appeared directly in front of Apothecary Miss:
"You show me the way. I'll clear the path ahead."
There were not as many enemies as expected, but their unobservable nature was quite troublesome.
Shade and Apothecary Miss ran out of the graveyard one behind the other and left the forest. Then, relying on long-range Thunder Spears and Shadow Balls, as well as the wind blades and fireballs occasionally summoned by the Sorceress behind him, Shade fought as they retreated, finally returning to the woodland path amid the Great Fog.
At that moment, the strange buzzing sounded again. Dozens of densely packed tentacles actually stretched out from the forest. Even without a fear of giant objects, Shade's scalp still tingled:
"Light of Imprisonment!"
He casually waved both hands, summoning dozens of halos that flew backward, then ran swiftly through the fog toward the dock with the Sorceress.
Though the tentacles looked terrifying, just as their strength was far inferior to Shade's, their resistance to control-type Thaumaturgy was also much lower than he had expected.
This time, Apothecary Miss ran ahead while Shade continuously threw halos behind her. Even as more and more tentacles burst out from the forest, the two still made it onto the pier before the tentacles could block the small path leading from the forest to the dock.
The steamboat was still moored in its original place. Apothecary Miss, who was running ahead, jumped aboard first. Just as she was about to call for Shade to hurry up, she discovered that the boat was continuously rising.
Amid the Sorceress's cry of alarm, two thick tentacles rising from