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Eugard's accelerated development is frankly some of the most batshit insane in the verse, probably only behind the likes of Reid & Garf.Eugard barely beat Groovy, the current weakest divine general, but also nearly beat Halibel later. If Groovy hadn't passed him the fiend sword he would have lost. We can look at Balleroy and Rowan to see that the zombies don't really grow an absurd amount stronger. Not enough to suddenly jump from the level of the weakest, albeit still very strong, divine general to the level of someone supposedly far beyond any of the others.
The Eugard that beat Groovy and the Eugard that lost to Halibel may as well be in a totally different dimension. That's why he's selected as one of the 4 primary warriors against Sphinx, alongside Cecilus, Halibel, and Garfiel.
Eugard: [Half a step.]
Next time, he would take half a step further.
Even though Eugard’s swordsmanship had failed to do so just ten-odd seconds prior, he was confident that he would be able to do so the next time around. It was a feat he had never performed during his lifetime or after his death, however, he could envision innumerable derivative techniques.
That was the growth of an undead, greedy to the point of desperation.
――Forced into solitude by the Curse of Thorns, and with his notion of battles having been altered to that of executions, Eugard Vollachia had never had the opportunity to improve his strength as a warrior.
For the purpose of self-defense, his sword could be trained as much as was necessary due to his unique circumstance, but naught more than that had been required.
That swordsmanship of Eugard’s was now rapidly gaining a vast amount of experience, becoming greatly polished.
Eugard was completely unaware that the being he was facing off against was the strongest being of the Kararagi City-States―― namely, a being among the top five most powerful individuals within the current world.
But, absorbing such enormous amounts of combat experience through this confrontation of which he was ignorant, as an undead, Eugard was allowed to grow into a being that greedily became stronger, to an extent much greater than he had been during his lifetime.