To be honest, on a night of torrential rain, the environment underwater was actually better than on the surface. After all, it did not rain underwater. Once one adapted to the environment and currents beneath Green Lake, moving with Underwater Breathing was no slower than running across the ice.
The gathered Water Ghosts had already surrounded Shade when he entered the water again. But as the Witches Detection Badge glowed once more, the Water Ghosts were "melted and burned" away layer by layer, leaving mutilated corpses scattered across the nearby lakebed.
Even if those enhanced special undead could break through the Deathbringer Angel's damage to undead within fifty feet, after being severely weakened, Shade could still easily defeat them with Moonlight Slash.
Visibility underwater was even worse than above the surface. Shade did not know how many Water Ghosts there were this time, but the number he sensed had already exceeded four digits. Just thinking about where all these corpses had come from made his scalp prickle.
Yet the most important target, Rotten Eye Barry, transformed into a Water Ghost, had hidden among the Water Ghosts from the very beginning. While the gentle holy white radiance purified the encircling Water Ghosts layer by layer, Barry continuously fired jet-black ice spikes tainted by the Whisper Element at Shade. But as the Water Ghost horde was rapidly depleted, he finally could not patiently wait for an opportunity any longer and swam toward Shade himself.
Sound traveled poorly underwater, so neither of them wasted words. Barry still retained a human shape, but he moved through the water with the agility of a fish. He swiftly entered the fifty-foot range around Shade, and because the Whisper Elements of their relics counteracted one another, he was not weakened as severely as the other Water Ghosts.