The Silent Lady swept upward, then cleaved straight down from her opponent's neck!
Renato did not wait for the clearly abnormal half-drow to finish speaking. He attacked at once.
The black blade sliced down from her neck, splitting one side of her body open. Strangely, Renato felt no resistance, as though the half-drow had no bones.
The longsword cut through her collarbone, ribs, and down to her abdomen... Yet Renato felt none of the bones that should have been there. It did not even feel like cutting flesh, but more like drawing a blade through a mass of thick mud.
Despite a wound that should have killed her instantly, the half-drow before him did not fall.
The two halves of her split body writhed and collapsed like ooze, turning into a fluid monster.
Her now-shapeless mouth-or rather, a constantly opening and closing fissure-uttered a fervent prayer:
"Ancient Eye, Elder One, the Hidden One... O great Ghaunadaur! We prostrate ourselves within your formless embrace and praise your name!"
Renato immediately turned his blade sideways and put the strength of both arms behind it, cleaving the ooze-like monster in two at the waist!
The edge of the Enchanted Longsword swept through her flowing body, dividing it in half. Foul-smelling pus spurted from the severed surfaces, and the ooze-like half-drow let out a shriek of agony like scraping metal that echoed through the private room.
Apparently, dealing with this sort of fluid monster required cutting its body apart completely.
The Silent Lady had inflicted tremendous pain on the half-drow turned monster, but had not killed her outright. A disgusting tentacle formed from her flesh and lashed at Renato!
A spherical shadow shield enveloped his entire body, blocking her attack.
The shield shattered the instant it deflected the tentacle, and a pulse of shadow