Chapter 205: The Punitive Force Descends (1/2)
”Damn it, that motherfucker escaped!”
Calvin violently cursed seeing the remaining quarter of the deformed man's soul escaping towards the horizon.
Anger filled his heart for he couldn't help but blame himself for being so weak.
If he had just been a Scribe, then there was no way that the bastard could've escaped!
If he had been more powerful before this encounter, then he would've managed to end everything the soonest as possible.
Sadly, there were no 'ifs' in this world.
It was an irrefutable fact that the deformed man had successfully escaped.
”Fuck!” Calvin cursed once more.
He was fuming.
But when he realized that Stephanie had taken a chunk of the deformed man's soul, he suddenly felt a little bit better.
At least that bastard didn't manage to escape without paying a heavy price.
Calvin estimated that it would at least take the Goddess of Pestilence and Famine about a year to reconstruct the physical body and another year to repair the soul of her precious disciple.
A smirk soon spread on Calvin's face.
He turned to look in Stephanie's direction and asked.
”Are you okay?”
Stephanie remained muted, she seemed to have all of her senses closed as she focused on digesting the energy from the deformed man.
Calvin turned his attention away from Stephanie towards the commotion that was happening at the village center.
The Queen of Plague had awakened and it was now being housed by the Sinister Heart.
A monster of such proportions wasn't something that the Mortician could hope to defeat.
But the Mortician remained steadfast in the face of its sinister presence. However, Calvin knew that what he was doing was incredibly dangerous.
The deformed man's plans included the fact that he wanted to sacrifice the entire village of monsters to boost the Queen of Plague's growth when she finally fused with the Sinister Heart.
Since the Mortician was also a Specter and in a way, he was also a monster.
He might be attacked by the Queen of Plague and consumed.
”Return!”
Calvin called out and the Mortician turned into a ray of navy-blue light that flew and sunk into his shadow.
”We've got to leave this place, pronto!”
He looked around and soon discovered the Bloodstone.
Taking it into his hands, he forced Stephanie to take shelter into it. Then, without even turning to look at the Queen of Plague that was already in the process of adjusting with the Sinister Heart in its body, Calvin made a mad dash towards the southern entrance.
He had predicted that the Queen of Plague would probably target the monsters inside the basement of the ancestral house first. Without the deformed man controlling the actions of the Queen of Plague, it would be impossible for her to recognize friends from foe.
And with the overwhelming desire for consumption washing over her desire for anything else, she would probably consume those monsters first.
Until then, Calvin had to escape.
But first, he needed to group up with Heisenberg and Ricardo.
”I hope those bastards are still alive.”
Calvin leaped onto a nearby rooftop and scanned the part of the village where the three of them parted ways.
”They must still be alive. There's no way that they'll die against these small fries.”
Calvin thought to himself.
Heisenberg might look like just an ordinary perverted old man to the eyes of an outsider, but he was actually a sufficiently capable Priest of the Church of All-Encompassing Light.
His knowledge and experience in battles against oddities must be enough for them to survive in this environment.
Bam!
An explosion rang out in the distance.
”Is that Heisenberg?” Calvin noticed a milky-white divine light coming from the same place where the explosion had occurred. Without wasting any more time, Calvin leaped on rooftops after rooftops as he approached the location where he saw the divine light.
Only a single explosion had occurred and the world had become quiet once more.
Calvin felt worried that Heisenberg and Ricardo might've fallen into danger that they couldn't solve by themselves.
Descending from the rooftop, Calvin found Heisenberg and Ricardo hiding inside a narrow alleyway as if they were scared that they might be discovered by something sinister.
”What the hell are you guys doing in there?”
Calvin asked as he casually approached the two with a smile.
”Shit! Ricardo!”
But Calvin didn't expect that the two would freak out by the sight of him. Heisenberg immediately issued an order and Ricardo took out his bow, placing an arrow on its strings, he didn't hesitate to attack.
Swoosh!
The arrow flew and Calvin was quick to jump to the side. He had avoided the arrow but an angry look was now on his face.
”What the fuck? It's me! Why are you attacking me?”
”Shut up, foul creature! You can't fool us by pretending to be Calvin! In fact, how dare you impersonate him!” Ricardo scowled and retorted.
He nocked another arrow on the strings of his bow, but before he could even send it flying towards Calvin.
The latter had disappeared from where he was standing and he reappeared beside the two.
”Guys. It's really me.”
”Ah!” Heisenberg cried out loud. He reflexively sent a punch towards Calvin's face as Ricardo leaped backward and prepared to battle.
”You bald geezer and an immature bastard. It's really me! I'm not dead yet!”
”Save your words!” Heisenberg refused to believe.
His eyes shone in a faint azure light as his fists became covered with the divinity of the All-Encompassing Light.