The bird wraith looked at Crow. Its head snapped around repeatedly like a real bird.

It swirled the sickles around its body. Wherever the blades passed, its body disappeared. Until it was completely invisible.

"Invisibility? Now this is a nice coincidence." The black cat meowed.

Black smoke covered Crow as his body slowly seeped out of the naked eyes. Crow had also become invisible.

The two of them. A wraith and an abomination were now engaged in combat.

Mater's eyes flashed red as he scanned the area. Invisibility had levels. The weaker it was, the easier it'd be to discover the invisibility and vice versa.

Crow's invisibility was at an average level. His Shadow Form made very minimal noise and left very little traces to the environment. It was almost a perfect invisibility if it wasn't for the fact that Crow couldn't hide his Chaos and he would be exposed in front of a mirror.

Crow's red outlines appeared clearly in Mater's eyes.

The bird wraith on the other side was similar. Its invisibility was useless in front of Chaos Vision. Additionally, it left a lot of traces and caused a lot of noise behind. Air split out wherever it went and the water surface trembled lightly.

"Hmmm. Its Chaos is also very unstable while it is invisible. It won't be able to hold this state for long." Mater squinted his eyes.

Crow didn't need the bird wraith to break to find it. He turned into an owl while in invisibility mode, and flew around silently to look for the bird wraith.

The calm surface had many small ripples. But they were all harmonized together, going along the wind and shivers of the tree branches.

But Crow noticed a certain ripple that was out of sync with the rest.

He hesitated no more and flew to that location.

Crow turned into a jaguar in mid-air and slashed at the empty space. The large paw and claw of the jaguar slammed at the bird wraith, revealing it. Crow landed on it and dragged it on the muddy water for a few meters.

He lunged down to bite at the bird wraith's neck, only for it to use the sickles as a shield and stopped his teeth.

The bird wraith kicked Crow hard, sending him backwards. It quickly stood up and used the dash ability as before.

The bird wraith turned into a black streak and sliced at Crow with its sickles.

Crow turned into a crow and also dashed away using Abyssal Dash. Purple energy covered him as he turned into a blur. His speed was obviously much greater than the bird wraith.

"Very smart. He noticed the ripple." Mater meowed. The jaguar also caught the black cat's attention.

As of now, Mater's one and only weakness was close combat. He was a small cat. His size prevented him from engaging in any type of melee fight.

He was powerful and had a lot of spells. But one simple slap by Selina would have sent him to heaven if she wanted.

"The body of a cat is too small for any melee fight. But what if I transform into a jaguar? A black jaguar precisely. If I can make a Demonic Item with this function. I might be able to deal with this weakness."

Mater stroked his whiskers and continued to watch the fight with Selina and Aurora.

Selina observed everything closely and with awe. While Aurora kept a close attention to Crow's state, she was ready to barge in and help him if anything happened.

In this life, Crow was no different from a brother. They were both servants of the great and most powerful dark lord.

After missing its target, the wraith swirled its sickles, turning invisible again.

Crow didn't. He only observed everything in silence. He turned back to his humanoid form and summoned the Nether Spear.

The bird wraith was a tricky opponent with its invisibility and dash, but it was weak. Very weak.

Crow could feel that it had the same amount of Chaos as him but it was barbaric, having no amount of battle intelligence and a lack of observation. It only fought with instinct.

The Abyssal Abomination stood still and waited.

"What is he doing?" Selina said.

Mater smirked, revealing his white sharp teeth. "Waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike."

The bird wraith appeared behind Crow and dashed at his back.

Crow was as calm as ever. He spun his body and swung his spear. The Nether Spear blocked the two sickles while the bird wraith was still on its fly path. The spear became longer and pierced right through the neck of the wraith.

Crow used the momentum to fling it at a tree. Black blood flooded out from its neck as it slammed heavily onto the wooden trunk.

The Abyssal Abomination dashed forward with a purple streak. Crow slammed the tip of the spear into the bird skull, killing it instantly.

Bash stepped forward, allowing Mater to jump to Crow's shoulder.

"Nicely done, Crow. That was almost a flawless victory." The black cat meowed.

"All thanks to you, Master." Crow put a hand at his heart and bowed.

The black cat opened its mouth and pulled out all the Chaos inside the bird wraith. It had the same level as Crow, a level 5 wraith.

Six Chaos Spheres materialized inside Mater. The black cat smacked its lips a few times.

"It doesn't taste bad at all. A little bony though. As expected of a bird."

The body of the bird disintegrated into ash and fell to the muddy water below.

The black cat faced the Abomination. "How much Chaos do you have left?"

"Three quarters, Master."

"Still a lot, huh. Let's keep going. I will recharge both of you before we arrive at the lake."

Then they continued to venture deeper in the swamp. A few minutes after they're gone, a large eye appeared on the tree which the bird wraith was in contact with.

It was a dark eye with yellow iris. It looked around curiously before disappearing.

Around this time, a black sleek SUV stopped at the entrance of the Onoke Swamp. Sheriff Carter walked out from the vehicle and stood on the dirt road without stepping inside.

He pointed to the swamp. "It is in there. The previous Hunters reported the existence of other NCEs also. Are you sure you don't need any reinforcement?"

Mateo kicked the car door open and walked inside the swamp. "I need no help. Just wait for my good news."

The Silver Hunter disappeared into the swamp.

After Carter was sure Mateo was gone, he picked up the phone and called Brooke, the lady at the motel.

"It's me, Carter. Is Miss Isles in the motel? No? Did she say where she was?"

Carter hung up the phone and let out a long breath of worry. Selina seemed very trustworthy but that Mateo guy wasn't. The Sheriff was afraid that the guy would just mess something up and kill them both.

"She must be in the swamp already. Oh well." Carter took out his revolver and slotted in silver bullets. "I have to help her."

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