Assassin Spectre

The Assassin Spectre is a spectral enemy that can be encountered in the Thicket, within the tree/the body of the God of the Depths.

Lore
From what little information that can be gathered from the New Gods, the Assassin Spectre was said to have hailed from the Far East. Where exactly, no one really knows but everyone sees him as a foreigner from the East, even farther than the Eastern Sanctuaries. He just showed up one day without much explanation from his side, just to assist in the prevention of the darkness from spreading its illness. The plan of containment failed in the end and like the others, he, too, fell into the darkness and succumbed to it. However, unlike the others, he was not played with by the darkness. He and his sword to this day remain unaffected by the black, and his sheer iron will is manifested from his blade, showing the man's exceptional skill and will in his prime and in his life.

Location
Can be found in the Thicket, Level 5, when you find and pull out the Eastern Sword to use for your own. The fight is initiated by the ghost, the moment you pull out the sword.

Strategy
Like all ghosts and spectral enemies, like the Miner Spectre and the Spectre Knight, this Spectre cannot be harmed by physical attacks. Only magical attacks can possibly damage it, or use cursed weapons against it. It uses the spectral version of the Eastern Sword. It can cut your party's limbs, so unless you have a really good magical caster to take it down quickly, or equip your party members with cursed weaponry, run or put the Eastern sword back to where it belongs. It is because as long as you have the Eastern Sword in your inventory, the ghost will keep on initiating the fight with you in order to get it back.

You can talk to it, but it will not answer. It will just answer via gestures, being the honorable man he was when he was still alive, but he will still attack regardless.

The Eastern Sword has the highest critical chance of all the other weapons, so if that is incentive enough to keep the weapon, by all means, keep it and try to either avoid the ghost or kill it with magical means. If it's not enough incentive to keep, return it.

Once dealt with, the Eastern Sword is yours for life, until you lose said life on the next monster that is...

Trivia

 * The symbol on his emblem at the front of his chest and his shoulder, shows either these symbols: 大 (dai/big), 六 (roku/six), 水 (mizu/water), and ‎天 (ten/sky or heaven). The letter 天 tends to make more sense since in writing, it would look like the picture below it, and the Spectre Assassin is a ghost, which are often associated with the heavens.Ten.png