"You guys go, I'll handle the rest. Worry about staying alive." they all looked at Kishio as if he had gone mad, all apart from Kizo.
There were still over forty silver ghosts and they were all getting exhausted.
Lisse had already used one of her main trump cards, how did Kishio even expect them to get through the hordes, but they didn't have to wait too long as Kishio had already begun moving.
"You guys should probably thank the death god" Kishio muttered lightly as he took a few steps forward.
When he was paralysed by Lisse's ability, the energy that pulsated from within him was Uragami assisting him in overcoming the ability, but that wasn't all, Uragami also helped him in enhancing his control over death.
While the team killed the silver ghosts, a part of each silver ghost's essence drifted away no longer alive, but not quite gone, Uragami had enabled him to utilize and control death essence.
With his enhanced control over death, he could control a bit of the death essence, pulling the essence towards himself to serve as another source of energy, it was another way to gain energy apart from his kogami. And with it, a new skill…
Kishio clasped both of his hands together, his fingers intertwined except for his index fingers which remained pointing straight at the silver ghosts already running towards them.
A small dark or of energy began to form in front of his index, the orb increasing gradually in size as the energy inside caused the rest of the team to shiver slightly, it felt forbidden to them.
The dark orb of energy became the size of thrice a football.
"Death…beam" Kishio muttered lightly, immediately the orb of energy blasted forward in a straight line, Kishio almost stumbled backwards, but keeping his feet firmly planted into the ground, he managed to keep his hands straight and the beam going.
A short while later the beam died down from Kishio's hands, nearly half of the silver ghosts had been eliminated, the team looked at Kishio in surprise, "Go." Kishio said to the team snapping them out of their daze, at the far end of the trail he had created, a cave could be seen.
Kizo nodded at Kishio in appreciation before charging forward with the rest of the team, the team might not have noticed that the silver ghosts Kishio killed dropped no crystals as they were more focused on surviving–killing the dungeon boss.
After the team had run off Kishio let out a light sigh, the silver ghosts charging straight at him.
"Uhm, oh great death god, is there a way to kill the beast with their crystals intact" Kishio voiced out with a tone filled with a false sense of respect and sarcasm.
He felt like if he killed off the beasts with no crystals to show, the team might claim he has stolen some for himself.
"You have more control over death powers now, kill off the beasts without affecting their essence, but I must inform you that you wouldn't be getting any energy back from them" Uragami ghost-like voice replied Kishio.
Kishio looked at his palm after Uragami's reply, could he really do such?
He suddenly felt an item get added to his internal inventory–a part of his kogamis he can summon.
Kishio smirked as he summoned the item, a long green sword, memories flashed in his head as he remembered waking up on the dark streets, the long green sword was the one the leader of the group had attacked him with, come to think of it, he had no idea what Uragami had done to the trio.
Kishio looked at the hilt, Uragami's marking boldly imprinted on it, Uragami had probably overwritten the initial parasite marking on it.
Kishio turned his gaze to his wrist 'E rank boom bugs 76, D rank boom bugs 180 C rank boom bugs 1, E rank silver ghosts 22' Kishio summoned the silver ghosts under his control, from the ground around him ghost-like wails could be heard as silver ghosts similar to the one in front of him, but with a lifeless appearance emerged as if crawling out of hell.
Kishio commanded his own army to clash against the silver ghosts upfront.
Admist the chaos he began walking forward, he was going to join the team in the boss's cave, he didn't really care about the lives of the undead silver ghosts.
Kishio walked through the cave's small entrance, but upon entering his eyes widened a bit in surprise, the cave's entrance was little but on entering, the interior was extremely wide, he unsummoned the long green sword in his hand.
Kishio could spot in the distance Kizo and the rest of the team, they stood in the center of the cave, their backs against each other, they seemed to be at alert, few deep cuts on Kizo's armour probed what they were going up against must be difficult to deal with.
"Kishio watch out," Kishio heard Kizo scream at him, making him on guard.
Immediately, from the corner of his eyes he spotted a silver ghost appear beside him, the silver ghost was already swiping its claws down at him, Kishio frowned as wither's dark aura coated his arm, he threw out an attack of his own, but at the last moment the silver ghost fell back avoiding Kishio's hand coated in dark aura.
Kishio smirked internally, 'Of course, they're all afraid of death'.
Kishio looked at the silver ghost that had stopped about ten metres from him, the hollow empty eyes looking at him with fear and curiosity.
The silver ghost swiped its claws towards its back, a low ding noise is heard as the silver ghost deflects one of Kizo's surprise attacks, turning around, it used its other hand to hit Kizo.
Its sharp claws sending Kizo flying while claiming a large chunk of his armour.
The silver ghost's body glowed for a while and suddenly two arrows passed through the silver ghost's body, the dungeon boss turned to face Kishio once again as if the other teammates were nothing but peasants.
"Of course, the hero has to come to save the day," Kishio muttered but it was loud enough for the group to hear.
Kizo struggled to put his feet under him to make it to Kishio's side to help him buy Kishio's words made him stop 'What was he doing?'