The warden burned with power as he stood between the moonspawns and Agnes. Extending the de long enough to behead the humongous wolfish creatures, he charged at them, de raised.


    The divider, zing in a golden light, bit through the twisting flesh of the moonspawns, cutting deep. Dark essence bubbled up in great quantity as the severed parts almost began to connect together. As if he would let that happen.


    Surging with more power, he severed its headpletely. Unfortunately, it did not die even after being decapitated. While its regeneration slowly worked to create another head, it struggled against him, not losing much of its prior aggression.


    "It''s going to be a nuisance to deal with," he mumbled, severing a couple of its legs. Even still, it did not fall.


    "Try severing the core from its body," Agnes shouted from behind him, already engaged in battle.


    "Or you could just move on to the next stage while I deal with these," he shouted back.


    Agnes did not answer for some time. "Are you sure? There are a lot of them..."


    He drilled the de into the chest of the creature, ripping apart its heart before prying open its insides to finally sever all its connections from the core.


    The moonspawn jerked on the ground before a ghostly spirit manifested from its body, crying at the warden. It jumped at him as though trying to possess the next intact body. Sadly for it, radiance essence shot from the de and impeded its advances.


    The corrupt spirit fled in crisis. He did not give chase and turned to Agnes, who was advancing towards the gate. Unfortunately, many moonspawn impeded her path.


    Enabling [Wings of Radiance], he shot towards her, pushing away the one she battled. "I''ll cover you."


    He protected her from all the attacks that came their way as they advanced. He didn''t try to finish the moonspawn off, only drove them away for a smoother passage.


    It didn''t take long to reach the closed gate. While he fended off the dark wolfish creatures, Agnes knocked on the door. She wasn''t being gentle, but whatever she did was hardly enough to budge it. She hadn''t even managed to create a small crack in it.


    "It''s a runebination," she shouted after a minute of her best efforts. "Your expertise."


    "Give me a moment," he said, puncturing the heart of the fourth moonspawn before separating its core from the body.


    Agnes returned after finding no sess in opening the gate. She exploded with speed using her Wings of Darkness, easily avoiding all the attacksing her way.


    "The corrupt spirits arebining," she said.


    He had already noticed that, but he had no other way of dealing with them, so he left them to their devices. He just didn''t think they would achieve a level of strength that could harm him.


    They could not stand the purifying power of the radiance essence.


    As they fought more of the moonspawn and destroyed their bodies, more of the corrupt spirits joined together, creating a distorted ghostly figure whose cries red all the dark essence around them.


    "Phew!" he let out a breath. "This is more annoying than I thought it would be."


    Agnesnded next to him, eyes still staring at the humongous corrupt spirit churning with corrupt power. It barely had any synergy between the distorted spirits thatbined, but that hardly stopped it from being one of the most frightening, chaotic things.


    It cried onest time before charging towards them, particrly towards Agnes. It leapt at her, but the warden came forward to stand as a wall between them.


    He raised the de, zing with golden radiance essence. The corrupt spirit tried to avoid him but could notpletely evade the de. With a part of it split open, it crashed into the gate.


    All the runes engraved on the entrance lit up while the godfallen creature writhed, its body contorting. The warden attacked again...


    Something triggered at the entrance, and he was a little toote. It appeared there was nobination to open the gate; instead, it simply needed a great amount of spirit power to open.


    The gate opened, and the corrupt spirit made ast-ditch effort to save itself, only to find Agnes in its path. It tried to invade her body, but she immediately pulled in her Intent to fend off its advances.


    It had already lost a great deal of its power; there was no way she would lose to it now. She tapped into the ambient dark essence and used it all against the demonic spirit, pinning it downpletely under her suppression before swallowing it.


    He raised an eyebrow as Agnes let out a breath. "Was thest part necessary?"


    She shrugged. "I will digest its spirit eventually; it''s how my power works." She turned her attention to the interior of the chamber they had opened.


    He was nning to collect all the loot first before entering, but seeing her already approaching, he joined her.


    Instantly, a terrifying surprising force restricted all of their essence. He clenched his teeth, immediately trying to tap into the Way to see if he could free himself from the suppression.


    He could not. His expression turned ugly, finding the Way waspletely lost from his grasp. No, there was no source of the Way within this chamber.


    The interior was enormous and empty. It was clearly the source of all evil within the region, and the reason became apparent soon enough.


    "Is that what you''re looking for?" he croaked, eyes not moving from the skeletal corpse of a hugebination of human and wolf. Most of its flesh had already dposed, with only some parts of the upper body and head pinned by a majestic spear lodged into its skull.


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    Agnes waspletely wordless, her hands pressed on her face. "That''s the..." she tried to utter, her voiceing out shaky, "that''s the corpse of a god."