Chapter 64: The Ghost Hunt - III (2/2)

Merlin slid along the forest floor, his clothes being progressivelyleaves He stood back up and spat the re at the taste A light led to scrape away at with his teeth

He began chanting as he ran towards where he was just fighting He could see various individuals peeking their heads out fro held back by the tentacles for so long, and were given the position of the

「Skill ⟪Cleanse⟫ Activated」

The filth sticking to Merlin's blade and back was stripped away, floating into the air before vanishi+ng into nothing He pulled his goblin dagger out of his inventory and coated it with holy water before using the reladius, he threw the eer in his offhand before approaching the rose wight oncearound in pain, its tentacles were snapping s A few bystanders were al, and they took that as their hint to stand behind cover A tentacle swiped at Merlin's face as he approached, which he barely ducked in time, his back was still scratched by a sharp thorn, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been

Merlin closed the distance while chanting the words "heavy strike", barely avoiding yet another random sweep from a second tentacle

「Skill ⟪Heavy Strike⟫ Activated, your next attack will do an extra 30 daer effect」

Merlin ht once more, and as he expected, a tentacle attempted to sweep him away This time however, Merlin intentionally wanted to bait the tentacle out Instead of continuing the swing of his blade, which would have collided with the tentacle, cleaving it in half, he pulled his blade back and threw his dagger at the wight instead

The dagger flew straight towards the wight's chest, but its path was ultier's blade sunk into the tentacle like it wasn't even there, stopping as it reached the hilt While the tentacle was distracted, Merlin swung his blade at the wight onceused yet, but it played as soon as his gladius pierced the wight's neck

Merlin's blade sliced through the creature's neck, continuing on down its torso, only stopping once it had successfully cleaved the wight's left arer doesn't trigger heavy strike" Merlin mumbled out loud as he pulled another vial of holy water out of his inventory, coating his blade once ht atte arm, but that too was neatly cleaved off oes to sho easy combat can be when so his weapon before splashi+ng the re it to essentiallyhile sas all it took for the wight's head to be sent flying, and the creature was finally dead, or so the observers thought Merlin however knew that this body wasn't all of it, and if he wanted the creature's death to be perst the cheering and shouts of victory froer out of the tentacle now ravestone

It took a few minutes, but he was now near to where it all started It was at thisthe scent of roses that Merlin's body had now started attributing to danger

He now stood a few steps away fro in the ht, illu sword, stood a single ood condition, although there were signs of wear frorowth The words written on the headstone were nothing e Merlin was yet to acquire the knowledge of

A withered bundle of roses was resting in front of the headstone Merlin kicked the roses aside and began digging up the soil with his dagger where they once were Fortunately it didn't take too long for Merlin to find anything, but instead of a skeleton, all Merlin found was a drawstring bag covered in runes