The ghoul had not expected Liu Zheng to run so fast. By the time it reacted and gave chase, the distance between them had somehow only grown wider.
Of course, it could not let Liu Zheng escape just like that. If it missed this chance, who knew whether it would have to wait hundreds or thousands of years for another.
"Empowered Metamagic: Haste!"
The ghoul activated the bloodline magic within its body, and invisible magic empowered it.
Ghouls were a race transformed from humanoid creatures. Some ghouls retained the bloodlines they had possessed as humanoids after their transformation.
This ghoul was one such lucky one. When it had been human, it had been a dragon-blooded sorcerer with Shadow Dragon blood. After becoming a ghoul, its Shadow Dragon bloodline had not disappeared; instead, it complemented its ghoul lineage perfectly.
The powerful magic of dragon blood and the ghoul's formidable body gave it both endurance far beyond that of a mage and close-combat prowess far beyond that of a warrior.
Haste doubled the caster's speed, while Empowered Metamagic increased a spell's effect by half.
With the boost of 2.5 times speed, the ghoul finally caught up to Liu Zheng.
"Corrupted Miasma!"
The ghoul opened its mouth and spat out a stream of dark green energy. It shot ahead of Liu Zheng like an arrow, then transformed into a dense cloud.
This was a spell created by fusing the Shadow Dragon's Darkness Cloud with the ghoul's Venomous Spit. It was also the ghoul's unique spell.
It could not only use negative energy to blind enemies and drain their life energy, but also slow them down and continuously inflict poison damage.
Many enemies could not even get out of the Corrupted Miasma before becoming corpses, trapped inside as if haunted.
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