After finishing all this, he wanted to leave the lakebed as soon as possible. But before he could act, three humanoid creatures swam over from nearby. As expected, they were still Water Ghosts:
"Drawn here by the smell of your companions' blood, huh?"
But the fact that they had arrived so quickly also meant that the Water Ghost Nest had to be nearby.
Since he had encountered them, Shade had no intention of avoiding a fight. In the underwater darkness where no one could see, silver light flared once more. This time, however, the Water Ghosts moved extraordinarily fast. The three Moonlight Slashes only struck the Water Ghost in the center. After evading the attacks, the other two resurrected undead swam toward Shade from either side at even greater speed.
Shade frowned as he watched them. The Water Ghosts' evasive movements just now had contained a very subtle pause, as though a person running continuously had lost their silhouette for an instant, only to appear farther ahead.
Yes, Space Movement—but over a very short distance, probably no more than the width of a little finger.
"When did spatial power become so cheap? Even Water Ghosts can learn it now?"
As moonlight slashed from his hand once more, the two "exceptionally gifted" Water Ghosts were ultimately still dismembered and sank to the lakebed.
The fluids leaking from the Water Ghost corpses mixed into Green Lake's water, forcing Shade to flee faster. However, he headed in the direction from which the Water Ghosts had appeared. With her help, Shade soon found his target on the lakebed.
The so-called "Water Ghost Nest" was actually a shallow underwater cave, its entrance concealed by two dilapidated little fishing boats. On the boats lay a human skeleton and the remains of a pig that had been