"Roar!"
Almost the instant the Moon God finished chanting, the three undead creatures locked in combat with the others began to transform.
Clang!
A sharp metallic ring came from the warrior wielding the poleaxe and the headless centaur knight. The warrior had seized the brief moment when his opponent stiffened while receiving the enhancement to unleash a Whirlwind Slash.
With unstoppable momentum, the poleaxe crashed down toward where his opponent's head should have been, seemingly determined to cleave him in two.
Red blood vapor surged from the muscular warrior's body. To finish off the centaur knight as quickly as possible, he had activated the Berserker skill Bloodthirst.
To his surprise, however, just as his poleaxe was about to descend and split the headless centaur knight in half, a black skull suddenly grew from the collar that had been spewing ghostly blue-green flames.
If that had been all, it naturally would have made no difference to him.
The problem was that a cloud of thick black smoke appeared along with the head, enveloping the headless knight's newly grown skull before transforming into a black steel helmet topped with an enormous horn.
Clang!
The poleaxe slammed into the horn on his opponent's helmet with an ear-splitting crash.
A large section of the centaur knight's horn was sheared off, and his ferocious aura immediately weakened somewhat. Still, he had escaped the fate of being killed by a single stroke of the axe.
"Roar!" The centaur knight bellowed in fury, then swept his spear sideways, sending the warrior who had nearly killed him flying into the holy light barrier his opponents had erected.
The black spear left a deep gouge in the warrior's breastplate. Fortunately, it inflicted no fatal injury, though it robbed him of most of his fighting strength.
After receiving the Moon