"I'll take care of the Mad Hound. You only need to distract his minions."
Selene took out a tiny black ball from her Shadow Space and gave it to him.
"It's a Black Pearl fruit. The corrupted monsters love it.
"The minions of Mad Hound are all corrupted monsters. They'll follow you as long as you have that fruit."
Neo took the fruit from Selene.
She nodded to him and activated her Shadow Movement Spell.
Her body turned into a drop of ink and fell into the shadows on the ground.
"She'll search for the Mad Hound and defeat it while I distract his minions. It's a simple plan, but I don't dislike it."
He unsheathed Obitus.
The minions, dozens in numbers, were small monsters of misshapen shapes.
Some of them looked like humans with twisted limbs and crawled on all fours while their stomach faced the sky.
Some had the head of a bear, the hands of a grasshoppers and the body of a beetle.
