Xianty was truly "sacrificing" herself to help everyone delay Kulisha's awakening. She was magnificent, and, of course, she seemed accustomed to this sort of magnificence.
It had even reached the point where an outing felt incomplete unless it ended with her being "magnificent."
Philomina continued keeping Kulisha "asleep." This Summoned Beast had terrifying physical and Spell Art defenses; its only weakness was probably the spiritual domain.
But that was merely a weakness, not a fatal vulnerability.
It was possible to interfere with it through spiritual power, but killing it that way was almost impossible.
This was a terrifying opponent. It did not have an enormous body like Duolons, crushing everything like a mountain as it advanced, nor did it use illusions to torment and banish people in unexpected ways like Kongpacini.
To some extent, it was very "approachable," making you feel you could handle it. In reality, however, you had very few effective ways to deal with it, while every swing of its scythe could inflict tremendous damage.
The three seriously wounded men, including Alfred, had actually come within a hair's breadth of being killed outright.
Counting Richard, who had been fortunate enough to be kicked aside, that meant Kallen had almost lost four subordinates just now.
After all, on their trip in and out of the tomb, the greatest loss had merely been Richard coughing up some blood. Yet in this short time, the squad had nearly lost half its members.
Kallen's eyes gradually reddened. As captain, he had to come up with a solution quickly.
The problem was that, although he had plenty of abilities and tricks-Puer had once teased him about being a general store-not a single one could change the situation right now.
"Ah..."
Aisili finally could not help screaming.
Xianty was a Demon Beast she