Chapter 622: The Exiles (1/2)

”What's going on!”

”What the hell is this!”

”Shit! Shit! What is this barrier! It's too damn solid!”

”Argh! Love, Faith, Piety! What is the meaning of this!”

”You fuckers! What did you do!?”

”We weren't the ones responsible for this! We're innocent!” Love yelled.

”Right! We were sleeping soundly just like you guys when this occurred!” Faith stated while banging at the golden-silver barrier.

”I told you two! I swear I felt a rat following us but you dismissed it and told me I was overthinking things! Now we're trapped, again! Argh! Who! Who are you!? Show yourself, damn it!!” Piety roared behind his cage.

”Come out! Coward! Show yourself!”

”Yeah! Show yourself, damn it! Face us!”

”Fuck you whoever you are!!”

”Hmm, maybe it's a good idea to place a silencing seal as well.” Raven whispered to himself as he heard the Commandments roaring in anger once they saw that the seal on their prisons were fortified.

Amidst the complaints and roars of indignation, Raven completely ignored all of it. There was no reason for him to listen to them since he didn't care about their well being anyway, it would be much better if these things just perished but unfortunately, he can't kill them now.

Each one of these prisoners are closely connected to the Devil Emperor, if they abruptly died, the Devil Emperor will surely be alarmed and no one can tell what it's going to do next. Raven needed to be careful when dealing with them which is why up until now, he still hadn't showed himself, in fact he had no plans of revealing himself.

Raven drew the Brush of Wisdom once again and drew several more runes. He decided to make the prisoners suffer some more by placing a Silencing Seal and Link Interrupting Seal to their prison cells.

The Silencing Seal will prevent them from communicating to each other or anyone actually. Their voices will be contained within their cells until it dissipates. The Link Interrupting Seal will numb their connection to the Devil Emperor, enabling them to send accurate reports through their shared link with him or receive orders from it. The seal will only interrupt the connection not break it since Raven didn't want to do that.

Once the new seals were placed, silence immediately followed. Now, not only did the Commandments suffer from darkness, they will suffer from silence as well. Their connection towards the Devil Emperor had been disrupted without their knowledge and they're about to suffer more since Raven still wasn't done with them.

Using a good chunk of his energies, Raven invoked the Chains of Order to descend. He drew towards the seals he repaired earlier, further fortifying them and connecting it to each other. Now, Raven had no doubts that these prisoners will be able to break the seals anymore, unless its the Devil Emperor itself broke it for them.

He could feel them banging through the barrier to no avail. Raven chuckled and chose to observe them some more. He still remained hidden from their senses therefore he's absolutely safe. Raven was also holding the end of the Chains of Order, just from holding it, he could feel the energy it was draining from the prisoners.

Raven attached it to a seal and kept it for now. And since he already returned the escaped prisoners to their cells and even fortified their seals. His job was over. Not a single trace of doubt was on Raven's heart, he believed that they won't be able to break free from their current predicament so there's no need to stay here anymore.

With that in mind, Raven took the return seal from his pocket and ripped it in half.

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When Raven regained his senses, the first thing he did was to deactivate the runes he applied to himself. Since he was no longer in the Valley of Despair, there was no need for him to keep these runes active.

He did a brief scan at the Storm Dweller's Peak and discovered that nobody's around, not even the Grand Elder nor his wife was here. This caused Raven to frown so he closed his eyes and spread his senses to cover majority of the area around him.

Raven sent out probes and when they returned to him, he was shocked by the feedback he received.

There was a huge commotion outside of the sect. He felt a strong evil presence confronting the Sect Master and the main force of the sect. He could also see a few dead bodies around as well as damaged infrastructures.

Raven clucked his tongue and immediately began flying towards the exit. As he flew, he was drawing numerous runes which glittered with power around him. By the time he arrived, he could see several people injured and the Sect Master as well as the Grand Elder confronting five hooded figures who oozed with pure evil energy.