“That guy…”
Seeing Shien Buztout standing motionless, merely wielding his sword light and effortlessly blocking the dracolich’s ferocious attacks, deflecting its claws and fangs, the High Priest’s face finally darkened.
She could see that Shien was toying with the dracolich, not taking it seriously at all.
Compared to the dracolich, Shien focused more on her, his aura locked onto her and even Limgir, a look of predatory intent in his eyes, making the High Priest feel like the tables had turned.
She had regarded Shien as an intruder, a prey overestimating its own abilities.
However, now the High Priest realized that not only did she regard Shien as prey, but Shien also seemed to regard her and Limgir as prey.
His obvious aura lock clearly told others that he didn’t intend to let the High Priest and Limgir go.
The High Priest and Limgir were the prey he had been waiting for. Before, the prey couldn’t move, but now that they had come out on their own, he was looking for the best opportunity to capture them.
No, more accurately, this mysterious cloaked expert only wanted to capture her.
And the aura he locked onto Limgir was filled with killing intent.
He wanted to kill Limgir.
He had only spared Limgir before to lure her out.
Now that she had appeared, he had no reason to keep Limgir alive.
But the High Priest was furious.
“How could you destroy the Greater Spirit I painstakingly cultivated?”
The High Priest finally decided to intervene.
“[Astarte]!”
This was a high-level necromancy spell that could manipulate death energy and death itself.
With this magic, the High Priest could forcibly corrode all living things, stripping away their life force, extracting death energy, and gradually increasing the power of this magic.
This magic couldn’t exist without death energy.
Without death energy, this magic was useless.
Therefore, when first using this magic, its power was even weaker than basic magic. Only when enough death energy was accumulated could it become increasingly terrifying as the reserves of death energy increased.
The High Priest had lived for thousands of years. Since raising [Necromancy] to level seven and gaining access to high-level necromancy spells, she had frequently used [Astarte] to drain the life force of all things, gathering death energy to enhance her necromancy’s power.
Over thousands of years, the High Priest had accumulated an immense amount of death energy, making the power of [Astarte] extremely terrifying. Once used, it could even transform an entire area into a gathering place of death energy.
The sky here was covered by dark clouds because the High Priest released the death energy she had collected for thousands of years.
And the howling black wind was the manifestation of the released death energy.
Thus, the howling black wind in this place suddenly transformed into countless faces filled with pain, forming a death energy like vengeful spirits, surging towards Shien.
“Oh?”
Shien raised an eyebrow, and without hesitation, he swung his sword, forcing back the attacking dracolich with a clang, and then slashing at the incoming death energy storm.
“Slash!”
Under the Holy Sword’s strike, the vengeful spirit-like death energy storm was not only split in two like paper but also purified by the golden light shining from the Holy Sword, instantly vanishing without a trace.
“That sword is indeed strange.”
The High Priest’s face darkened again.
Shien looked at the High Priest.
“Isn’t it enough to just play with your pet, High Priest?”
Shien’s voice was filled with nonchalance.
“I’ve changed my mind.” The High Priest snorted coldly, “I’m going to turn you into my death slave, a member of my undead army.”
Saying that, an even denser and more powerful death aura erupted from the High Priest.
Instantly, the sky became darker, and the howling gale became fiercer, making this place seem like hell, with ghostly wails echoing.
Facing this scene, the smile that had been on Shien’s face finally disappeared.
“Is that so?” Shien said indifferently, “In that case, I’ll stop playing too.”
As he spoke, a terrifying magic power erupted from Shien’s body.
The earth trembled.
The atmosphere trembled.
A massive pillar of magic power surged from Shien’s body, reaching the sky, dispersing the dark clouds and breaking through the thick death energy.
“—!?”
The High Priest’s expression changed drastically.
“Wha…!?”
Limgir was also shocked.
At this moment, Shien no longer held back, unleashing his maximum magic power.