"Use your decompose skills. Take cover." The group leader blinked through the haze, steadied himself despite the pain in his head and the blood matting his hair, pushed to his feet, and snapped the order.
At once, hands pressed to the earth, and the skills flowed downward—not into an enemy, not into their own bodies, but straight into the ground.
The crust loosened as if something inside had exhaled. Black seeped through like ink spilling into water, clods softened and slumped, and within seconds the ground under their hands turned to a dark slurry, a sheet of living mud that swallowed the moonlight.
It was the same family of skill that the Rank 2 Umbraen had used against Malrik a while ago.
The only difference was that this one was the Rank 1 variant. It didn't affect a wide area or carry the acidic effect capable of damaging a body; it simply warped the soil's form and turned it into liquid.
