[What's going on?!] Colin asked
[Well, I just saw a horde of Undeads including that tier 4 you told me about March into the city...and they seem to be heading towards City B.] Alice said
[WHAT!!! Are you sure?] Synthia asked nervously
[Judging by the fact that I was almost killed by that tier 4. I would say I am very sure.] Alice said
*Booom*
The manhole cover was sent flying into the sewer tunnel as the Ghouls jumped into the sewers.
[Gotta go.] Alice said and turned into mist and headed deeper into the sewers. The Ghouls quickly activated their [Life Sense] skill to track her down, the [Life Sense] skill functioned very similarly to the [Aura Vision] except that the main focus of this skill was sensing the life energy of the creatures around the user. Although hiding one's aura helped when hiding from this skill, it didn't completely allow someone to hide from this skill. The Ghouls followed after Alice using their [Life Sense] skill, and although she was using her [Shadow Cloak] ability to hide her aura, they could still see her life force, that appeared like a small red outline around her body.
'How the hell are they still following me?' Alice thought as she used [Aura Vision] to track the movements of the Ghoul. They had been playing this game of cat and mouse for about twenty minutes, with the Ghouls patiently following her trail and her using [Shadow Cloak] to hide. But while the Ghouls weren't using any demonic energy to follow her, she was using quite a bit to keep her [Shadow Cloak] active and she knew she will eventually run out if she kept this game cat and mouse going.
'This isn't so bad, I hoped they would separate and I could take them out one by one, but I should be able to deal with all of them simultaneously....I hope.' She thought and ran towards the approaching Ghouls. The ghouls were surprised by her sudden charge but reacted swiftly nonetheless, the ghoul at the front punched at her with it's bone covered fist but Alice's body suddenly burst into mist as she dodges the Ghoul's punch. The mist coalesced behind the ghouls and Alice quickly swung her sword towards the neck of the ghoul closest to her, sensing the danger, bone suddenly appeared around the Ghoul's neck stopping the blade. Alice could only click her tongue and run down the sewer tunnel as the ghouls chased after her.
'How the hell am I gonna kill these bastards? I can't go outside since it's daytime and my [Shadow Affinity] lacks any offensive abilities and focuses more on utility than anything else. That only leaves me with [Demonic Energy Manipulation] and my sword, but what can I do with those?' Alice thought to herself as she tried to come up with ways to deal with the ghouls chasing her. As she ran through the sewers, she soon reached a fork in the road and came up with a very questionable plan.
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The ghouls soon ran around the corner and arrived at the fork in the sewer tunnel, they quickly activated their [Life Sense] skill and went down the right tunnel towards a bright red life force. As they did, a black enveloped the body of the ghoul at the back and dragged him into the left tunnel, unnoticed by the others. The ghoul crashed into the water and looked around for it's assailant, it activated it's [Life Sense] but could only sense the red life force in the right tunnel, which left it confused. Just as it was about to call for the others, white mist rapidly rose from the sewer water and enveloped it's body completely and it couldn't see anything. Just as it was about to use it's [Corruption Breath], a pale white hand with glowing red nails appeared out of the mist behind the ghoul and ripped out the undead heart of the ghoul. While the ghoul was surprised at having it's heart ripped out and having large amounts of black blood gushing out of it's chest, another pale hand appeared from the mist and swiftly decapitated it.
[You have slain a level 3 Ghoul. You have gained 1860 exp. ]
'Well, that was gross but it worked.' Alice thought as she disgustedly threw away the grey, long dead heart of the ghoul and flicked the black blood off her hand. What she did was simple, she infused some of her demonic energy into her sword and threw it down the right tunnel, then turned into mist and hid under the sewer water in the left tunnel. This was a gamble on whether or not they would be able to sense her in her mist form, since her energy was disbursed so thinly within the mist, and it seemed her gamble has paid off. All that she had to do after that was drag one of the ghouls into the left tunnel and finish it off as quietly as possible.
'One down, nine to go. Let's divide and conquer.' Alice thought as she turned into mist and headed to the right tunnel, under the water.