CH410 Mana Recycling
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As soon as the order dropped, the unit charged straight at Alex.
However, unbeknownst to them, Alex had not come alone.
A ripple of shadow stirred behind him—so subtle that not even the ranked officers noticed it.
Udara stepped out from Alex's shadow, silent and unseen, taking her place as his Shadow Guard. To the lower-ranked and unranked soldiers, her existence might as well have been a hallucination.
The fortress officers, for their part, were shrewd. They let the ordinary soldiers rush ahead to encircle Alex while they themselves slipped behind the formation, waiting for the perfect opening to strike down the 'drained sorcerer'.
But Alex, naturally, would not give them time to enact their plan.
He moved first.
[Abyssal Conqueror's Steps: Ghost Step]!
