Chapter 255: Angel of Radiant Wings (4)
Chapter 255: Angel of Radiant Wings (4)
With the spear of light skewering his heart, Future Leven groaned. "Y-you... you bastard..."His body was the corpse of Gellard. It was already dead. Even with his chest pierced, his heart no longer beat, so it wasn’t an instant kill. In fact, there was no concept of an instant death for undead.
However, his body would not move. Karnak had struck precisely at the core of the death knight spell—the necromantic heart, so to speak. It was not like a human heart that, when destroyed, meant immediate death. But once it was pierced, the undead would lose full control of their body.
But if I hesitate, he’ll recover quickly. As someone well-versed in necromancy, Karnak wasted no time. Finish it.
At his command, the angel raised its right hand, and a blade of light surged from the angel’s fingertips. With that razor-sharp edge, the Angel of Radiant Wings cleanly severed Martial King Gellard’s head.
Leven, watching from nearby, flinched in surprise.
—Lord Karnak?
He already knew Gellard was dead. But wasn’t it unnecessary to go so far as to cut off his head after impaling his heart with a spear?
—It is necessary. He’s undead.
Only then did Leven understand the situation. Decapitation was a commonly practiced method of subduing intelligent undead. For humans, such a wound meant instant death, but undead, being already dead, could not die again.
However, beheading did not mean killing them. An undead whose head had been severed could, in theory, still move both head and body separately. But because their consciousness resided in the head, the headless body, though capable of movement, lost the will to act. As for the head? It might be filled with intent, but it no longer had the means to move.
What could a disembodied head possibly do? Nothing but shout curses.