Impact!

Corvus Glaive's trait was that as long as his war blade remained, he could revive endlessly, because his soul resided within the blade.

Compared to his body in the conventional sense, Corvus Glaive's war blade was more like his true body.

So, after Proxima Midnight pierced his body, Corvus Glaive's flesh had indeed died once. But because his soul remained inside the war blade, it had not dispersed. Instead, it acted upon his dying body and revived him once more.

But Proxima Midnight, his wife, did not possess such an ability. Once she died, she was truly dead, with no second chance.

Fueled by rage for his dead wife, Corvus Glaive rose again with the support of his war blade. Looking at Pietro's loose, unguarded back, an incomparably sinister expression appeared on his face.

Using the tremendous noise from the distant battlefield as cover, he moved almost like a ghost, silently creeping behind Pietro. The tip of the King's Blade aimed at Pietro's heart as he viciously thrust forward!

"Die!"

Corvus Glaive roared in fury. In his eyes, he could already see Pietro's chest being pierced in a single blow before he was lifted into the air for torment.

However.

The next moment.

Pfft!

Corvus Glaive's entire body suddenly stiffened. He lowered his head blankly to look at the all-too-familiar war blade deeply piercing his chest, his eyes filled with shock and incomprehension.

"How... is that possible?!"

The war blade Corvus Glaive had been gripping in his hand had vanished at some point. And the blade that had pierced his chest was naturally none other than his own—the one housing Corvus Glaive's soul.

Using his own methods against him—that was Pietro's style.

He turned around and gave a mocking whistle, then reached out to grasp the Death Blade lodged in