Underground Abyss.
The tide of Ghouls was still surging madly.
After that massive heartbeat fell, the Great Ghouls became fiercer than ever. Their carapaces gleamed with a dark green luster, and both their charging speed and force had increased drastically.
Klaus swept his Bone Sword horizontally, striking the neck of the nearest Great Ghoul that leaped out.
The instant the Bone Sword cut in, a hard resistance jolted through his wrist. The blade that had always cut through everything actually got stuck halfway through its neck, failing to sever it in one stroke.
Something that used to take one slash to kill now required another.
Klaus frowned slightly, twisted his wrist, and dark green Crystals burst from the wound, blowing its head and half its neck away.
But immediately afterward, another seven or eight came howling and pouncing forward.
The Blue Knight's Rapier swept across from the side, first severing one of their arms at the shoulder. The next instant, her sword flipped, slicing through the necks of four or five charging Great Ghouls in succession.
The flesh at those severed necks had hardened considerably. As the blade passed through, it even made a faint metallic scraping sound.
The Blue Knight's brows furrowed slightly.
What was going on? How had the Ghouls become so much stronger?
The Attendant was not having an easy time either.
A net woven from Purple Light covered several openings on the left flank, but when the Great Ghouls crashed into it, the light net that should have shredded them did not exert its usual force. Several dents were forcibly knocked into its surface.
Impacts of this level would not even have caused ripples before.
The Attendant knitted his brows tightly and twisted his wrist. The Purple Light abruptly contracted, grinding all the creatures that had