Miss Puppet did not directly join the battle. Instead, she waved her fingers and bestowed blessings upon Shade, and he could feel his speed and strength increasing.
"Shade, you actually don't need to defeat it. Just hold on until your companions open the next door."
"I understand, but if I get the chance, I'm curious whether this thing can be killed."
Shade fired the Great Sin Chains again, tangling them around the surrounding blood vessels to prevent himself from accidentally falling.
Shade even wanted to draw Life Fire Seeds from the surrounding blood vessels to replenish the consumption of the Fire Seed Source. Unfortunately, those vessels formed an enormous whole, and with his current abilities, he could not directly plunder life from such a whole.
Compared to Shade, who only needed to buy time for his companions, the pursuer high above clearly had no intention of letting them escape so easily. Amid the flashes cast by Shade's Red Moon Whip, it steadily closed in on him, attacking whenever it found an opening and drawing closer while Shade was forced to defend.
Aside from firing Wither Rays, it could also summon ten-meter-tall giant double-headed swords, spinning them rapidly to disrupt the surrounding vascular spider web. The black shadow's most dangerous ability, however, was summoning Wither Missiles with withering properties from the void.
On solid ground, those dim yellow light projectiles the size of human heads would have been easy to evade. But in this environment, Shade could only keep expending the energy in the Fire Seed Source.
Miss Feliana's puppet was also of great help to Shade. Besides granting him blessings that increased his speed and strength, she intermittently summoned shields to block some attacks for him.
It was worth noting that Miss Puppet's shields bore Saint Byron's school emblem. She