The serpentine leech locked onto Griar the second he entered the shop, having to go through webs of filthy fluids had given him away, and with how absolutely clogged the entire place was with them, he couldn't just rush the leech down either, he would get stuck in the webs.
So, he had no other choice but to manifest blades of winds to clear up the area first, but as it turns out, even energy was slowed down by a noticeable amount having to go through the slimy fluid.
'These things can even deal with energy based attacks?' Griar had initially assumed that the undeads were using the pink substances specifically because it was adapted to creating beings that could deal with the means of this realm in particular, but clearly, he had been wrong as the leech had the means to defend itself from his blade of winds.
