I can evolve everything

"breathe……"

After killing the undead adventurers, Renn stopped behind a dead tree, stopped his breathing technique, and his heartbeat gradually calmed down.

The sensation of blood rushing rapidly through the veins gradually subsided.

"How much longer can we hold on?" Ella crouched down behind him, staring at the swaying reeds around them.

"At full power, two minutes." Renn pressed his chest, which was still burning hot. "If it's an intermittent burst, it can probably last five minutes. Any longer, and I'll have to go back to bed like that night."

In the mist ahead, the faint sounds of swords clashing could be heard.

The ground nearby was trembling, and mud was lifted up by a huge force and then rained down.

"arrive."

Ryan pushed aside the bushes in front of him.

My vision suddenly opened up.

Upon closer inspection, the stitched-together corpse appeared even more grotesque and terrifying.

Inky black blood kept gushing out from these wounds and the cracks that were stitched together, but it was then forcibly pressed back in by some kind of viscous fluid on its body, causing the wounds inflicted by the slashes to present a bizarre state of trying to heal but repeatedly breaking open.

Karen is facing the monster head-on.

The old knight's fighting style was as simple and unadorned as ever, yet extremely fierce.

With her rich combat experience, Karen took advantage of the size difference between the two sides, nimbly moving around the corpse demon's feet, and each swing of her greatsword took away a large chunk of rotten flesh.

But for this stitched monster that has no sense of pain, such damage is clearly not fatal.

Meanwhile, Barron was also looking for an opportunity on the flank.

He didn't rush to attack, but instead moved into the blind spots of the corpse demon's attacks. Although his longsword occasionally scraped off pieces of rotten flesh, he clearly held back his strength, like an executioner waiting for his moment to strike. He kept a close eye on Karen and Mars.

He is waiting.

Wait until Karen gradually exhausts Mars's strength, or until he finds an opportunity to kill Mars with a single sword strike.

"Damn it...you bunch of mad dogs!"

Mars, perched on the back of the Corpse Demon, looked even more frenzied.

"Bone Spear! Venomous Nova!"

With a roar, he raised his bone staff high in his right hand, and several pale white spears materialized out of thin air, shooting towards Karen and Baron.

Karen had to interrupt her attack and raise her sword to parry.

The bone spear shattered, temporarily halting the old knight's offensive rhythm.

"Now!" Mars raised his bone staff again and chanted a long and obscure incantation.

The distorted human faces on the corpse demon's chest began to howl in pain, and a ball of extremely unstable dark red energy gathered in its mouth.

Karen recognized this as a precursor to the [Corpse Explosion] spell and quickened her pace. Although the corpse demon in front of her couldn't harm Karen, she couldn't get past it and deal with Mars directly for the time being.

Mars's move was clearly intended to detonate a part of the corpse demon, creating an indiscriminate explosion to escape.

Not far away, Renn was staring intently at the necromancer who was casting a spell.

The distance was about thirty meters; there was no time to rush over.

We must interrupt him remotely.

"Give me the short sword." Renn extended his right hand, palm up.

"Huh?" Ella was taken aback, but seeing Renn's calm demeanor, she instinctively drew her short sword from her waist and slapped it into Renn's hand.

Renn gripped the hilt of his sword.

The cold, metallic touch was instantly assimilated by the warmth of the palm.

He took a deep breath and activated the breathing technique again.

Black Rock Breathing Method

A dull thud resounded in my chest.

Raine tried to channel the energy into his right arm.

"Well……"

Renn's masseter muscles tensed instantly.

The muscle fibers in my right arm were bulging, and blue veins were protruding on my arm, with a faint dark red showing through the skin.

Renn's body was like a fully drawn bow, his right arm pulled back to its limit.

All the power converges on one point.

boom!

The moment the short sword left his hand, it made a crisp sound, like something cutting through the air.

The short sword tore through the mist and headed straight for Mars.

On the battlefield, Mars, who was preparing to unleash the Corpse Explosion spell, only saw a flash of silver light before his eyes.

There was no time to react.

The short sword pierced his right shoulder, which was holding the bone staff. The momentum of the flying sword caused his body to lean backward, and the bone staff flew out of his hand.

"ah!!"

The chanting was interrupted, and the gathered magic power instantly backfired.

The dark red light from the corpse demon's mouth exploded, shattering its own jaw into pieces.

"Who goes there?!"

Mars clutched his bleeding shoulder, looking in horror in the direction from which the short sword had come.

But he didn't get a chance to see it clearly.

The moment he lost his balance, Baron, who had been lurking in the shadows, moved.

This is like a vulture in the wilderness smelling carrion.

"The moment of judgment."

The towering figure suddenly sprang up, raising his longsword high with both hands. Using the momentum of his run-up, he leaped high into the air and slammed down on Mars on the back of the colossus.

"No!!"

Mars' pupils reflected the ever-growing broadsword, and a desperate scream hadn't even fully escaped his throat.

That longsword cleaved Mars diagonally in two from his left shoulder to his right ribs!

Blood mixed with internal organs splattered onto the corpse demon's back like raindrops.

A single, decisive blow.

But this is not the end.

At the very moment Mars breathed his last, Barron did not read the verdict as usual.

The moment the hangman hit the ground, his gauntlet-wearing hand reached directly into the arms of Mars's half-corpse.

It was obvious that he seemed to be looking for something.

"Get out of here!"

A roar accompanied by a sweeping sword light.

Karen followed closely behind.

The old knight had clearly been on guard against this move. At the same time Baron made his move, he also charged onto the corpse demon's sloping back.

The greatsword and the broadsword collided violently in mid-air.

The recoil forced both of them backward. Baron had to pull his hand back from the corpse, and in his hand, he only tore off a fragment of the gray robe.

"Tsk."

Barron glanced at Karen, then at Ryan and Ella who were rushing over from a distance, and finally his gaze fell on Mars's sliding corpse.

There's no chance anymore.

"roar--!!"

Just then, the stitched corpse demon, now free from its master's control, went completely berserk.

Its massive body began to convulse violently, and the countless vengeful spirits that had been suppressed within it began to retaliate. It no longer distinguished between friend and foe, and its huge arms swung wildly, indiscriminately smashing down on the two people on its back.

"This thing is insane!"

Karen had to raise her sword to parry a giant hand that swept towards her.

Taking advantage of the opening, Baron did not hesitate to leap backward and jump off the back of the Corpse Demon.

"Remember this, you old fool."

Baron glanced deeply at Raine in the distance—the boy who had delivered the fatal blow—before swiftly disappearing into the mist without a trace.

"Don't even think about running away!"

Karen was about to give chase when the crazed stitched-up corpse demon had completely blocked his path.

Its body, dripping with pus, formed a wall of flesh, encircling Karen and Mars's corpses within its attack range.

"Take care of this big guy first!" Seeing this, Karen turned around and shouted to Ryan who was rushing over.