Blooming Fury

When Sifa raised his gun, Hilda lifted her arms to defend herself. She took two shots to her arms and shoulders, then turned her head so the third bullet grazed her cheek.

The Demon-Hunting Bullets appeared to do limited damage, but a sinister bloom of blood-red fire rose from Hilda's shoulder. The wound on her arm kept bleeding. Blood Praise had taken effect.

Seeing Hilda take the shots made Sifa more certain that the chief priest belonged to the Corpse Collector Pathway.

If she had been a Zombie, she would not have been injured at all. Even a Werewolf's wounds would have healed quickly.

She could not be a Beyonder of the Darkness Pathway, either. Otherwise, she would have dragged him into a dream by now instead of charging straight at him.

Sifa kept firing, but this time Hilda did not rush in blindly. She used her agility to evade his shots.

Aboard the ship, Sifa had read about the traits of different Beyonder Pathways. He remembered that a Sequence 9 Corpse Collector already possessed certain corpse-like traits and enhanced physical abilities, allowing them to withstand decay, cold, and the aura of death.

At Sequence 8, their bodies grew stronger and their movements more agile.

So, after discovering she could no longer use Spirit Channeling, Hilda had decided to use her physical advantage to kill the intruder.

But a Spirit Medium's greatest strength lay in dealing with spirits. If Hilda could still use Spirit Channeling, she could have borrowed the powers of different spirits to cast all kinds of magic and produce supernatural phenomena. She would have been a difficult opponent.

But now...

With her Spirit Channeling sealed off, Sifa did not find her particularly frightening.

Still, he had to be careful.

Sifa soon emptied his gun. Rather than reload,