[Danger!]
Ye Qiyan's pupils contracted slightly. An intense chill made him swing his blade behind him without hesitation.
And at that very moment, right behind him.
An existence even Eve had failed to notice had appeared there at some unknown point!
His blade slashed out, but a skeletal hand shrouded in a hazy spectral glow stopped the attack single-handedly.
He saw what this existence looked like.
It was a humanoid skeleton wrapped in "transparent flesh" and "spectrally glowing skin."
It had a physical form, yet hovered on the border of illusion.
A thin black veil draped its body.
Its long, slender skeletal hands were as white as polished mutton-fat jade.
It was clearly such a bizarre existence, one utterly terrifying to humans.
Yet Ye Qiyan sensed a peculiar trace of "beauty" in this being.
Yes, beauty.
This beauty was not judged by human aesthetics.
It came from the "soul."
It had caught Ye Qiyan's descending slash.
Its empty eye sockets seemed to contain eyeballs.
It gazed at Ye Qiyan, yet did not seem to be looking at him himself.
"You look rather different from the humans I've seen before. Hmm... I actually can't quite see through your soul. I can only smell its scent, and it really is delicious."
It had no tongue, yet Ye Qiyan felt as though it were licking its lips.
This creature regarded him as food.
"Who are you?"
[Demon Card · Bewitchment] × [Demon Card: Rebellion]
Two cards emerged from the Void Card Storage beside him.
Ye Qiyan knew this creature's true name was [Wraith].
But he asked anyway.
"I am a god, the god of wraiths."
It answered.
And it had not noticed [Bewitchment].
Which meant...
["Not on Death's level? That makes things much easier."]
Ye Qiyan stood in the distance, his eyes flickering