Blood sprayed wildly as the youthful Negary hurled the Divine Grace Knight's head upward with force. It broke through the blockade of Smoke-Knot Grass smoke and was caught by a circling crow.
"One." Negary said with a delighted smile. To him, those two who had fought so passively earlier did not count as enemies at all.
His original head had exploded, and acute pathogens had been stored inside it. Once people were infected, they would swiftly fall ill, suffering symptoms of dizziness, weakness in their limbs, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.
However, Melsen possessed the Gift of Protection, and the pathogens were blocked outside the white light. Chris, meanwhile, evaded them through the perception granted by his Breathing Method.
Several arrows shot toward him. With a wave of his hand, Negary split them apart. The layer of shell he had torn from the ground transformed into black liquid, writhing continuously as it wrapped itself around the headless corpse of the Divine Grace Knight.
Before long, a headless knight clad entirely in black began to move, charging at Melsen.
Melsen was inwardly shaken. Faced with the attack of his former companion's corpse, he could only barely fend it off.
After controlling the dead's vocal systems, this was another corpse-related skill Negary had developed.
The human body possessed countless instinctive reactions. Even some everyday actions could form muscle memory.
Negary had the pathogens envelop the Divine Grace Knight's corpse, driving their tendrils into its body and continuously releasing stimulants, making the corpse move according to its muscle memory.
The techniques used by the headless knight fighting Melsen were all Divine Grace Church combat sword arts he had used in life. This gave Melsen the illusion that he was fighting a companion, preventing him from ever fighting with his full strength.
"Defiling