Near Prit, the Devonshire family cemetery, the underground Glory Hall.
Within the cold underground cemetery, inside a pitch-black stone coffin, Misha, clad in a tight black outfit, lay hidden. She frowned, a little anxious, and questioned inwardly.
"What's happening outside? What's going on?"
"It seems our old friends have arrived. Although we expected them, I didn't think they'd actually come..." Sitting in a hidden spot far away, Dorothy responded to Misha. After hearing Dorothy's words, Misha was slightly startled, then continued to respond.
"Old friends... could it be those spider guys?"
"It can only be them... but the way that guy entered is a bit strange, I can't be sure yet. Anyway, don't lift the lid and come out directly now. I'll make you ethereal again before you come out..." Dorothy continued speaking to Misha, and Misha silently nodded inside the stone coffin.
Then, while dealing with Misha's matter, Dorothy continued to observe the situation inside the underground cemetery through the miniature Corpse Puppet. She saw that the figure who had entered the underground tomb in the form of a strange Lakhman was currently checking the inscriptions on the stone coffins stored in the tomb. Wearing a black cloak, he examined the carvings on the lids of the stone coffins one by one, identifying their content. After examining several stone coffins, he stopped beside one of them.
On that stone coffin, there was writing in a near-ancient style of the Prit language, the content being the epitaph and the name of the stone coffin's owner.
"Ampere Devonshire."
"No matter how noisy the words of discord, my loyalty is eternal and unwavering, for the land of the Wind King."
Seeing the inscription on the stone coffin, the figure in the black cloak couldn't help but be slightly startled. After examining it carefully again, he seemed to confirm the target, placed his hand on the edge of the stone coffin's heavy lid, and slowly exerted force.
Accompanied by a dull hum, the heavy stone lid was slowly moved, shifting away from the stone coffin body, eventually creating a large opening. The person in black immediately stopped upon seeing this, reached his hand into the opening, and fumbled for the remains inside.
Due to the passage of time, almost all the items inside the stone coffin had long since decayed. Among the rotten objects, one item immediately caught the black-clad person's eye. The black-clad person reached in to retrieve it and pulled out a small silver pendant.
After touching the silver pendant, the black-clad person immediately held it up to his eyes to examine it carefully. After examining it for a while, he put it on himself and then prepared to turn and leave. Just at this moment, from behind the black-clad person, a subtle strange sound suddenly came. Seeing this, the black-clad person immediately drew a sword from his waist and turned to slash backward. After a flash of light, his sword met another blade, and instantly, the crisp sound of clashing weapons filled the entire dim underground tomb.
"Clang!"
Amidst the clear sound, the black-clad person focused his gaze forward. What he saw was a masked figure who had already attacked him, also wearing a pitch-black cloak and a tight-fitting outfit. Amber eyes were flashing faintly between the masked black cloth, and the blade he held was blocked by his own sword in front of him. On both the attacking sword and the defending sword, a tiny crack had appeared at the point of impact.
This second black-clad attacker was Misha. Seeing this uninvited guest so quickly find something from Ampere's stone coffin, she, who had just managed to stealthily emerge from her own stone coffin, finally couldn't wait and immediately attacked. However, her full-strength stealth attack was still reacted to and defended against, which made Misha frown.
'This guy... his reaction speed is so fast...'
Just as Misha sensed that the person in front of her was unusual, the black-clad person suddenly moved again. With a forceful grip on the sword hilt with both hands, Misha immediately felt a powerful pressure closing in on her. The black-clad person pressed his blade against hers and pushed towards her, while she was completely unable to resist. Misha found that even after using Life Devour to enhance her physique beforehand, she was still unable to contend with the black-clad person in terms of strength.
And at this moment, a mysterious force, transmitted through threads of Spirituality from afar, entered Misha's body, and then was transmitted from Misha's blade to the black-clad person's blade. In that instant, the black-clad person felt his hands gripping the sword suddenly go numb, causing his sword-holding posture to become unstable and the direction of force to deviate. Misha immediately tilted her sword, guiding the black-clad person's sword pressure to slide past her side. The black-clad person's sword slash missed and exposed a weakness. Misha seized this opportunity to thrust her sword towards the black-clad person's weakness. The black-clad person hurriedly dodged sideways, narrowly avoiding Misha's counterattack, but his waist was still scratched by Misha's sword, drawing blood.
This was the support effect generated by Dorothy using her spiritual threads to transmit Electrification to Misha. Although the Devonshire Glory Hall was built with Chalk Stone, the amount used was not as much as that used in the ceremonial chamber of the Lakheman Royal Tomb. This was mainly because it was a large public family cemetery, and there was not enough Chalk Stone to cover such a large space, so the external suppression of Extraordinary effects from the outside was not as strong as in the Lakhman ceremonial chamber. At most, it could only block ethereal life forms. Although the effectiveness of Dorothy's spiritual threads was weakened by nearly half, it was not completely useless.
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The attack was thwarted, and he was slightly injured. The black-clad person immediately began to readjust himself. As Misha prepared to pursue, the black-clad person took a step back to distance himself from Misha, then tightened his grip on his long sword and continued to attack Misha. Misha also held her sword forward and engaged in battle with the black-clad person again.
For a time, within the dim and narrow tomb, swift shadows were traceless, and sword light flashed in all directions. Two high-speed swift shadows dragged sharp cold light, intertwining and colliding within the limited space. Amidst the loud sounds of clashing weapons, sword marks were left on the ancient stone coffins and rock walls one after another. In just an instant, Misha and the black-clad person had exchanged blows for over a dozen rounds.
Clearly, Misha and the black-clad person were equally matched in speed and agility, both at the level of a third-tier Chalk "Shadow". However, the black-clad person's strength was much greater than Misha's, one tier higher than Misha even after using Life Devour, at least at the level of a second-tier "Cup". Normally, facing the suppression of a first-tier "Cup", Misha should not have been an opponent, but Misha had the support of Dorothy's Electrification. Every time she clashed weapons with the black-clad person, the black-clad person would be briefly stimulated by the current transmitted through the weapon, causing his hands to become numb and tremble, unable to exert full strength. The black-clad person's strength advantage could not be fully utilized, so the two sides temporarily reached a stalemate in close-quarters melee combat. However, this stalemate would not last long.
"Clang!"
Accompanied by a crisp sound of steel clashing, during another instance of Misha and the black-clad person's weapons colliding, the black-clad person's weapon broke in response, shattering into countless fragments that scattered in the air. In contrast, the blade Misha held, although now covered in cracks, did not break.
Although Misha and the black-clad person were both Chalk-tier "Shadow" Extraordinary, their auxiliary Spirituality was different. Misha's auxiliary Spirituality, "Stone", although it could not give her an advantage like "Cup" in melee combat, could enhance the toughness of her sword through enchantment, making it more solid in confrontation.
Misha's sword had a double enchantment of "Shadow" and "Stone", possessing both powerful armor-piercing ability and outstanding toughness. Naturally, it lasted longer than the black-clad person's sword, which only had a "Shadow" enchantment. The black-clad person could have originally relied on his greater strength advantage to break through Misha's defense before his sword shattered, but his strength advantage was suppressed by Dorothy's Electrification, putting the black-clad person at a disadvantage in the confrontation.
Misha could have both "Shadow" and "Stone" enchantments, but the black-clad person's "Cup" was the most difficult of all Spiritualities to enchant onto a weapon. This is because the essence of weapon metal is "Stone", while "Cup" is incompatible with "Stone".
With his blade broken, the black-clad person was suddenly without a weapon. Misha seized this opportunity and thrust her sword towards the black-clad person. The black-clad person dodged upon seeing this, trying to find an opportunity to make eye contact with Misha for instant hypnosis. However, Misha had long been prepared for this. Throughout the entire battle, she had been watching the black-clad person's body in action, not giving him a chance to make eye contact with her. The blind spots in her vision caused by watching the black-clad person's body were supplemented by Dorothy, who processed and clipped the view from her miniature Corpse Puppet to fill in Misha's blind spots.
Facing the disarmed black-clad person, Misha pressed her attack aggressively, forcing him back step by step. Seeing that he was about to be forced into a dead end in the tomb with nowhere left to retreat, the black-clad person also knew that this was not a solution. After taking a step back to create distance, he spun around on the spot and transformed into a swarm of bats scattering and fleeing. And Misha was waiting for this moment.
Seeing this scene, Misha immediately took the opportunity to gather strength and fiercely swung her sword in the air, simultaneously unleashing a dozen small wind blades. These wind blades rapidly attacked the bat swarm, and instantly a large group of bats were struck by the wind blades and exploded into clusters of blood mist in the air. Misha nearly wiped out half of the bats with just one strike. This was her experience in fighting Vampires, keeping wind-based skills ready for when Vampires turn into bats. The bat swarm that just transformed is the densest, and a single attack can kill everyone if the opponent reacts slowly, and half if they react quickly.
After nearly half of the bats were eliminated, the remaining bats immediately scattered rapidly in all directions, flying to various parts of the tomb. Misha immediately unleashed consecutive wind blades to pursue, but because the bats were too scattered, she only managed to strike down one or two. Most of the bats regrouped and condensed into the black-clad person's figure again in a place much further away from Misha. At the cost of several severe wounds on his body, the black-clad person successfully escaped from being forced into a desperate situation and created a significant distance between himself and Misha. At this moment, he was covering his chest and slightly bending over, seemingly recovering from the injuries caused by the instant bat transformation.
'Creating distance? I'm not afraid of that.'
Seeing the black-clad person reappear, she didn't hesitate and immediately waved her hand, releasing several wind blades towards the opponent, hiding the invisible wind blades in the air and shooting them towards the black-clad person, intending to completely defeat him.
However, at this moment, a strange scene occurred. Facing the invisible wind blades attacking from the front, the strong wind that was suppressing him, the significantly injured black-clad person slightly raised his trembling arm, pointing it in the direction from which the wind was coming. Then, another powerful airflow was released from his body.
With a whistling sound, the strong wind blown forward by the black-clad person collided with the attacking wind blades. Misha's wind blades were temporarily deflected by the impact of the oncoming airflow, flying diagonally towards the black-clad person and hitting the wall behind him, leaving sharp cuts. One of them brushed past the black-clad person's arm, the edge of the wind blade cutting open the clothing on his arm and grazing the skin underneath, but it did not draw even a trace of blood like Misha's sword blade did before. At this moment, the black-clad person's skin seemed to be tough enough to be unharmed by such minor scratches.
"What... was that wind? How is that possible? Isn't he an Eight-Pointed Nest Vampire?!"
Seeing this scene, Misha couldn't help but widen her eyes, thinking in disbelief as she looked at the black-clad person in the distance. She was all too familiar with the ability the other party had just used; it was the ability of the Storm Path she belonged to!
"This... could it be..."
Looking at the latest battle situation in the underground tomb, Dorothy in the distance couldn't help but slightly open her mouth for a moment. For the first time, she had seen someone other than herself in this world simultaneously using the abilities of two paths. And he wasn't a Soul Appender who had prepared two souls. Dorothy hadn't seen any trace of undead power involved throughout the process. So, how could he exhibit the abilities of two paths...?
Just as certain possibilities arose in Dorothy's mind, the black-clad person began to move again. He continued to raise his hand and point it at Misha, and then an even more violent airflow condensed in front of him.