Ryan watched this in shock from behind and sighed. 'I had forgotten who she was.' He smiled sheepishly.
He was desperate to understand what was happening, but this was no time to think about it. He was also a Walker.
Run away, for the greatest hero this world had ever known? That wasn't written in his books either.
A sword appeared in his hand. Although the sword was temporary, it had been granted to him from the Castle's Treasure Room, so it was sturdy and powerful. It could cut through many metals with ease, and the flesh of beasts like these should not present much opposition.
As he prepared himself, Cecily continued to attack head-on. The staff in her hand danced to the tune of her own melody of frequent and effective attacks, while her shadow puppets held back the mutated beast.
"Heh, it only takes three shadow puppets to finish you off. What a useless beast." She sneered and attacked with her staff as if it were a spear.
She planned to activate her Spiritual Projection, something she was an expert at.
But then she witnessed something astonishing.
"Ryan?" She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw how close Ryan was to the beast. She was initially frightened, but he swayed between her shadow puppets with agility, striking the beast's legs and various parts of its heads in succession.
Although his movements were relatively slow to her, they were so effective that she was amazed.
On the final blow, Ryan drove his sword into its side, and his eyes flashed. The spiritual projection activated immediately, and a powerful explosive ball shot out from his sword, exploding inside the beast.
At the same time, Cecily's shadow puppets clung to this beast, attacking it from all sides, digging their claws into its enormous mouths, then tearing out both tongues.
In the end, the beast fell backward, completely dead.
"And I thought you were a soft-spoken type." Cecily laughed.
Ryan shrugged and wiped the bloodstains off himself. "I just didn't remember you being so powerful."
"Haha, well, don't forget it again. You've barely seen 10% of my real strength," she said, crouching down next to the beast to touch it with her hands.
A small light came out of her hands and entered the beast, causing it to shudder several times.
'Spiritual Animation. This girl is certainly bold,' he thought and looked at one of the beast's hands.
Even though they were twisted, he could recognize that they had once been human hands because they had marks from chains on the wrists.
There was something inscribed there.
The Butler.
When Cecily realized what he was looking at, she frowned and let the beast revive.
"The Butler?" she read on the hand.
'I knew it,' Ryan thought.
Initially, he didn't understand why this place had turned out to be a hospital and not the housing complex mentioned in the novel, so he asked Martin to investigate.
But now he understood.
The event of the Lost Gold had been mixed up with an event that shouldn't be happening right now, involving the bastard who called himself "The Butler."
According to the novel, he was a Transmuting Biological Alchemist with terrifying ambitions and a very elusive nature. No one knew why he called himself that, but perhaps it had something to do with his own hospital, which holds amazing secrets.
The point is that the world is no longer following the course of events, so it is very likely that there will be a drastic change, even in this guy's identity, and even more so in his location.
Even more so in his power, which was already terrifying before, and now that he was interfering in this, it seemed much more terrifying.
'I don't have enough power to face that guy right now,' Ryan thought, slightly overwhelmed by the situation.
Facing one of the most dangerous antagonists of the early stages in such a short time was too much.
"Ryan?" Cecily tapped him several times on the shoulder, shaking him out of his thoughts. "Are you okay? You look pale," she said.
Ryan forced a smile and nodded. "I'm fine, just thinking about something," he said, looking down the long corridors behind and in front of them.
"What is it?" she asked.
Ryan didn't have to give an answer. The door here had been broken, and the entire containment mechanism exerted by spiritual force had been significantly affected, considering how it worked. So...
All the doors were now weakened.
BOOM*
Several explosions sounded throughout the hospital, and numerous beasts appeared in the distance.
Cecily frowned and grabbed him by the arm. "We have to go. Let's leave this little one here to study the place," she said, quickly pulling him into the room to exit through the window.
Once they stepped outside, Ryan quickly raised his sword.
CLANK*
A powerful blow coming from the second-floor windows struck him. Although he tried to withstand it, his body was too weak.
Although he had gained some orbs for killing that mutated beast moments before, it wasn't much. He had gained only one spirit, so there was no noticeable change in his strength, and these guys had too little spirituality to try to devour it.
In the end, his body was dragged by the force of the impact and ended up digging trenches with his legs all over the hospital courtyard.
Cecily immediately conjured her staff and struck it against the human head of the terrifying beast above her. The staff dug in firmly, disorienting it, and she attacked with agility three more times in harmonious succession.
But her body was pushed back just like Ryan's by the force of that beast.
'Tsk. I'm not good at close-range attacks.' She jumped back several times.
"Ryan, hold him off for me, I'll kill him immediately!" she shouted.
Ryan braced himself on the ground and raised his sword before him, having recovered very easily.
"I don't like fighting you little scumbags because you can't even give me good spirit orbs. But I have no choice."
He raised his sword before him and closed his eyes, opening them a second later. Before his eyes, there were now only figures of spirit with flesh.
For the Path Devourer, these figures were like delicious roasted meat waiting for the first bite. They were the finest of delicacies.
Therefore, his white teeth were exposed, his fangs seeing their prey.