Chapter 68: Acquiring the Editor Sample (2/2)

The platform of ice remained intact for just a few more seconds after the Alter went unconscious, and Aldrich used this ti him over

Then, Aldrich casted [Horror Warp], wrapping his hand in ared eyes He smothered the Editor's face with the cloud of dark, iht

[-20 Mana]

[Mana: 148/183]

The Editor fell down face first, unconscious, and Aldrich grabbed hi out to his Chrysalis The purple orb in his chest glowed and crackled before a tear of space appeared in front of it, for into a vantablack orb from which several hooked tendrils of darkness burst out, abducting the Editor and sucking hies: 3 ] 2]

So far, the Chrysalis could s into its dile day before it had to enter a charging dors in and taking things out, so these were precious few charges to ith

Hopefully, when Aldrich becae Fler'Gan theorized that once Aldrich became a lich and fully placed his soul into the phylactery, the Chrysalis would react with it and beco directly with Aldrich's soul to become a part of him

Aldrich then ju the rest of the villains to die against the swarm of undead below

"No! No! No!"

"Stop! Help us!"

"M-mother!"

Screams of terror echoed for a brief few seconds before they were choked out by a tidal wave of hungry undead

Aldrich survived by using his lantern's active skill, casting a disintegrating ray down at his landing zone that turned a small crowd of skeletons and zo as possible and ran straight forwards, not sparing even a single et swarmed

Granted, Aldrich could probably break free froh sheer physical stats alone, but he did not want to deal with the inconvenience

When Aldrich's [Phantasmal Mask] ca ray faded away, he used the h the enor corpses and bones

From his first atteo to leave the crypt level, and with phasing, he could just h terrain like pillars and walls

The only things he could not phase through were ceilings and walls leading out of the Necropolis - these seemed to be indestructible and unpassable

At the end of the crypt, Aldrich jureen fog door Here, he sat on the stairs, watching as a crowd of zoroan as they piled at the bottom

They could not scale up the stairs It was not in their 'coded' behavior

Aldrich sat on a stair and put his lantern down by the side, lighting up theto reach out to him froers interlocked together in calets

He kept tabs on Seth Solar, Blackwater's A-class, and the Butcher in the meanwhile The Grave Wards were far, far slower than them, but the villains reliably cleared out threats that could take out the Grave Wards

And once Aldrich's targets reached higher floors, the villains would slon their rate of progress treer threats, at which point the Grave Wards could keep a much closer eye on them

Aldrich would tail therew small, when all that was left was the Butcher and Seth Solar - the two strongest of them all and the ones he needed alive the most - he would strike