'Perfect. These skeletons will make for good practice.'
Sophie obligingly took the hint, leaping onto the crown of a tall tree to observe the battle from above.
Lian, man and blade alone, moved freely through the horde of skeletons.
Flashes of dazzling light flared and died out one after another.
This was the effect of the Bright Sword. Every swing produced a brilliant, sacred light that naturally suppressed malevolent things like Evil Spirits and skeletons.
Neither the towering Giant skeletons nor the diminutive smaller ones could withstand the Unrivaled Lian.
His Bright Sword was unadorned and direct. With every rise and fall of his blade, he cut down a swath of them.
A quarter of an hour later, the sixty-odd Skeleton Monsters had been completely wiped out.
Not a single Magic Crystal remained; all had been purified by the Bright Sword.
Aside from the deep gashes marring the ground, which proved they had ever been there, no other trace remained.
