The residents of Andorhal had their eyes opened as they watched the giant humanoid bat fleeing frantically beneath the full moon.
Something that big was actually running away!
Did it really need to be such a coward?
Was that huge body of yours inflated with air?
Big fellows were surely stronger fighters than little ones.
That was what every normal person believed.
Before long, their normal assumptions were overturned.
The Dreadlord had not flown far before Xal'atath caught up and slashed viciously at the base of its wing.
To the spectators, the giant humanoid bat was struck by a purple-black shadow, then spiraled toward the ground.
The outcome was decided in a single exchange.
Having lost its ability to fly, the Dreadlord broke apart in midair, transforming into countless bats that flew off in every direction.
An escape method that split its user into thousands of forms could leave physical combat classes such as warriors utterly bewildered.
Xal'atath, however, had never taken the physical approach.
As a shadow artifact, whenever it fell into a spellcaster's hands, it would coax the spellcaster into learning shadow spells and lend them shadow energy.
No matter how inept the spellcaster had originally been, they would become a powerful shadow spellcaster.
In the hands of a Small Arcane Golem, its coaxing was certainly useless.
The shadow energy it provided, however, could serve as the Small Arcane Golem's power source.
The strength of this shadow energy almost reached demigod level.
Shadow energy could power the body, or be fed into the Magic Circle of the small energy cannons to unleash shadow energy attacks at very high frequencies or with very high intensity.
The shadow missiles were not particularly powerful.
But they were more than enough to destroy those fragile bats!
A dense barrage of shadow missiles