The next two groups of Holy Church Knights also fell to Zhou Dai's Death Magic, accomplishing nothing at all.
But shortly after the third group of Holy Church Knights died, all the fallen knights suddenly stirred. They all stood back up, sprang into the air, and attacked Zhou Dai as she feasted.
"What...?"
The attack came too suddenly. Zhou Dai failed to dodge all of it, and several tentacles were severed, while even the temporary body she had "borrowed" was hacked to pieces.
But after white light enveloped her, Zhou Dai fought as though divinely aided. Using the scythes at the ends of her tentacles, she unleashed the Supreme Holy Slash that Yang Yi had never managed to learn, no matter how hard he tried. Though she was merely slashing wildly, her attacks carried the power of light unique to the Supreme Holy Slash.
Dozens of Holy Church Knight Captains came apart in this storm of light blades, reduced to shattered chunks of corpses.
But soon, those chunks reassembled, not necessarily using their original bodies, piecing together twisted human forms that continued fighting Zhou Dai.
Had Yang Yi been there, he would soon have seen through Three Eyes that threads invisible to the naked eye hung from their bodies, especially their limbs. They were really nothing more than marionettes, controlled by someone.
And once the white light lit up around her, Zhou Dai immediately understood why.
"...The White Knight's ability?"
She murmured to herself.
As the Magic Arrays were destroyed one after another, the revelations and power she received from the Goddess also grew. She soon learned how to respond and unleashed successive Supreme Holy Slashes at the empty entrance to the room, severing these invisible Special Threads.
Up on the surface, White Knight Hetis abruptly froze, as though some