Rabid Divine Carbuncle and the Calamity Virus Take Turns

While the man across from him was still baffled, Evan was too busy thinking about Money Drive to waste breath on trash talk.

In a flash, he appeared before the male Bloodthirsty Species.

He swung his silver-gray sword.

Whoosh!

The Silver Sword swept through the Bloodthirsty Species without harming him in his Ethereal State.

"Damn it! This guy's too weird! Run!"

The male Bloodthirsty Species knew he was no match for this strange man, who seemed completely unafraid of silver.

He skipped the customary parting threat and turned to flee.

Evan pointed a finger at him.

In an instant, he injected Mist Brain Plague carrying the Rabid Divine Carbuncle Calamity Pathogen straight into the man's spirit.

But the man was fast, and visibility was poor.

He vanished in the blink of an eye.

In the distance, Eldin shouted, "Don't let him get away! He'll warn the others!"

Evan turned to her, his voice certain. "Don't worry. He won't survive."

Seeing how confident Evan was, Eldin remembered that he could inject viruses into spirits.

She breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you. Your timing couldn't have been better!"

Evan walked over to Eldin and saw that she was using her blood to draw a complex, arcane rune on the ground.

Its winding lines radiated from a crescent moon at the center like ripples of mist.

"What are you doing?"

Eldin looked toward the tormented ghosts fluttering in the distance, her expression grave.

"I'm trying to free those poor souls from that profane thing."

Evan looked up at the headless female ghosts in the distance, bound by black, fleshy tentacles.

Especially the wrinkled, slime-coated flesh that had suddenly emerged from one of their open necks...

It brought back the twisted images that had seared themselves into his mind when he'd been tricked