No one knew when the assassin had appeared.
Even Eleanor, with her high perception, had failed to detect him, let alone Aaron. The enemy's strength far exceeded Aaron's expectations. Right up until the assassin appeared behind him and slashed off his right arm with a short blade, Aaron had not even noticed his presence.
What did that mean?
It meant the enemy's strength far exceeded anything Aaron could handle!
There was only one possibility: the enemy was a legendary-class combatant. Aaron had no power capable of matching him!
Eleanor! No!
As Aaron stared at Miss Cleric lying before him, his expression verged on madness. Countless savage thoughts flashed through his mind in that instant, but he forced them down for the moment.
The shadow came at him again! This time, the dagger aimed straight for his heart!
His desire to survive overwhelmed his madness and the agony of losing Eleanor. In his desperation, Aaron had time for only one move!
Blood gushed from his severed right arm. He pressed his left hand to his waist, and Slaanesh's divine spark surged forth.
Keeper of Secrets Transformation!
Thud!
The tip of the ghostly blue dagger struck the web of Slaanesh's divine spark. The legendary assassin's sure-kill strike met a slight obstruction, but that was all. The dagger kept advancing. After the two powers clashed for a single second, the web of divine light shattered, interrupting Aaron's Keeper of Secrets Transformation!
The Child of Chaos was horrified.
He had long known that Slaanesh's Keeper of Secrets Transformation offered something akin to "invincibility" during the transformation. At the instant it began, Slaanesh's divine spark would overload and envelop his body, making Aaron nearly invincible. That was why he had dared to use the transformation to face a dracolich head-on.
But all of that depended