The large commander roared, the menacing black blade sprouting from his hand as he charged at happily smiling Zoemi.

”Cupcake, don’t!”

Kirissu shouted after her husband but he was already by the black-haired boy.

”Pffft…!|

Zoemi spared him a glance and waved his hand dismissively.

The black tar boiled and from within a half-decayed body of a large brown-haired man emerged, his body glowing with the most powerful earth enchantments, and stopped the commander right in his track.

”What the…?!”

Carcassuss tried to shake off the corpse but then another one emerged, a red-haired man with a flaming spear, and he pierced his side.

*SHIIING*

After that followed a torrent of ice-spears created by another magician, and a wind-blade of another corpse finally decapitated the leader of the Ghosts of Bellcephora.

Carcassuss’s large body turned into darkness but instead of reverting into mana and getting sucked into Zoemi, it coagulated and formed back into an unharmed scarred man.

”Do you think your petty tricks would work on…! KHGGHH! UG-UGHUEE…!”

Carcassuss growled but then he suddenly bent in half, heaving like a cat that got a hairball stuck in its throat before he dropped on all four and started violently vomiting the ridiculous amounts of black tar.

”Oh? Could it be that my petty tricks actually work on you? It certainly looks that way. Although not the copy of necromancy that I showed you just now. You willingly merging with my acidic magic, on the other hand? Well… it’s as you can see. You do have quite the resistance though, I must say…”

Zoemi shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand in an overly dramatic way.

He gestured and send a single black swallow towards the increasingly bloated body of the commander of the Ghosts.

”NOO!”

And then he was charged by the vice-commander, one-armed Kirissu.

”Get away from my Cupcake!”

She roared and her stump erupted into a giant black arm that swatted the swallow away and launched herself at Zoemi.

She clenched her monstrous fist and felt that she got Zoemi in her grasp.

He had nowhere to run now!

”What are the rest of you lot do…!”

Kirissu growled but the words got stuck in her mouth when she saw the situation of the rest of the group.

Each of the surviving Ghosts was being relentlessly attacked by at least a hundred corpses in various states of decay each.

”You…! Just die!”

Kirissu coolheadedly decided that it was best to just kill Zoemi off so that his magic would stop.

*CRUNCH*

And so she crushed the body in her hand.

”Oh, even if I die, those guys would not stop attacking. They are enhanced by a ton of different magic…”

”…!”

Kirissu tried to back off when Zoemi suddenly shoved up, but it was useless.

The black-haired boy didn’t just appear out of the thin air in front of or behind her after all.

His head sprouted out from her own giant arm like a scab and looked meaningfully toward the fighting Ghosts.

”You see, getting them took some time… While your son was acting like a hero and saving the helpless left and right without carrying for a reward, I have already been amassing my forces, just in case.”

Zoemi smiled as he saw a group of decayed monks, one without a robe, only in his undergarments, another big and fat, together with a few others, dog-piling a short man with long spiky hair.

”Honestly, his actions were a splendid cover for me. And I got a bunch of money for turning in heads of the dead wanted men.”

Zoemi laughed as the few headless corpses ripped a middle-aged lady Ghost into pieces and her mana flew towards him.

”Delicious.”

He giggled.

”BASTARD!”

*WHAM* *CRUSH*

And Kirissu smashed his head into pieces like a ripe watermelon.

”Just die already, vermin!”

She growled and rushed towards her comrades to help.

”Cupcake, hold on just a bit longer!”

She told her husband.

”I-it’s fine, go Kiri…!”

He responded with a forced smile, his body was still bloated but wasn’t getting any larger at least for the moment.

But just as Kirissu faced away, she felt a weird tingling at her back…

”…eh…?”

She turned her head back just in time to see a single black swallow fly off in a captivating arch, circling them all before returning and colliding with her husband’s back.

”…what…? Why…?”

*KSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

”…”

His body erupted into a tremendous black pillar which turned into dust as fast as it appeared, while his wife could only watch, stunned beyond comprehension.

”Careless.”

”!!!”

Kirissu heard Zoemi’s whisper in her ear and jolted, snapping around but the black-haired boy wasn’t there.

”Ah, and he was such a loving husband too, what a shame… From his perspective, it must have looked like you’ve attacked him. What a sad way to go…”

The boy mocked her, still somehow whispering into her ear.

”SHUT UP!”

*WHAM*

Kirissu wailed and smashed her fist into the ear that Zoemi was taking too.

”GH-URGH…!”

Her whole body shook as the black blood erupted from the side of her head.

”How dare you…! HOW DARE YOU!?”

The black-haired woman shrieked and unleashed her power.

Kirissu didn’t use the black hole, instead, thousands of jet-black monster arms sprouted from the ground and attacked Zoemi’s corpses.

There was no escape, and soon the rest of the Ghosts was free.

”Let’s see how you’ll deal with us all now!”

Kirissu, with the black blood streaming down her head and neck, laughed triumphantly.

”How? Easy. Like this.”

”…!”

A voice sounded in her other ear and all of a sudden she felt that she can no longer control her spell.

The hands wiggled and started moving on their own.

The corpses were released and instead, the darkness blade in form of countless hands grabbed the unsuspecting Ghosts and tore them apart piece by piece without a moment of hesitation.

Oh, how pitiful the cries of the ones who thought they got betrayed were…!

”YOU…!”

Kirissu wept and attacked her other ear, basically crippling herself, making herself deaf and severely concussed.

But she still could hear Zoemi mocking her.

”Who would expect that the possession spell of your friend Kiorterell would be so effective! Amazing, isn’t it?”