Bartlett waved his Scimitar lightly, cutting off the head of the War Lizardman's corpse and shaking it hard by the scales on the top of the skull to drain the blood from inside.
Afterwards, he held the head in both hands and looked at it. The creature's reptilian vertical pupils were slightly half-open, as if it was napping.
"I've given you release; at least you died peacefully," the Barbarian whispered, before placing the head into a box with a 'Trophy Preservation' skill enchantment.
The Nightmare Warhorse leaped out of the Shadow Plane, circled around the Headless Corpse on the ground twice, and touched it with its fiery hooves. Then, it lowered its head and opened its huge mouth filled with sharp teeth, with sparks spraying from its mouth; it wanted to eat him.
