Chapter 902 (1/2)

After the glaring white light had dissipated, a hollow echo reverberated for several minutes in the air. There was energy hovering over the family hall, but it could also be an illusion, as the Shades of Chaos had dissipated under the intense light. Hasse ordered the demon hunters to maintain the sacred-flame barrier for a while as he and White Flame went out to check out the situation. A moment later, he declared the situation as safe.

“Phew…” Lily breathed a sigh of relief, her puffy tail shrank. “It was exhausting,” she said.

Hao Ren looked at the husky with a wry face. “Were you not just sitting by and watching all the while?” he asked.

Other than a pair of claws, Lily knew nothing about magic. Her brute strength was useless against the Shades of Chaos. The only thing she could do here was to be a cheerleader. She had wanted to help when Hesperides and Vivian were trying to restrain the deranged demon hunter, but it was all over before she could do anything.

Holding her head high, the husky bragged, “My battle cry had given you buffs!”

Hao Ren thought for a moment, sneering. If her bark were a battle cry, he would have at least gotten three bars of buff over his head if he were to take a tour at a canine breeding ground.

“Is it over?” Hao Ren looked at the direction of the family hall. The shadows had completely disappeared. The darkness inside the hall had dissipated. The massive exorcism ritual had cleared the inside and outside of the building of the negative energy and a sense of sacredness in the form of a milky white halo was floating above the dome. “Wow, that was a freaking powerful ritual, eh?” he said.

“It is of the demon hunters,” White Flame said as the flame on her body went out slowly. She looked a little tired but other than that she was fine. “It seems that our exorcism is better than your shadowmancy, but of course, your gun is quite powerful too,” she said.

Hesperides carried a dark demon hunter over and dropped him before Hasse. “Your man has got lucky today; he’s still alive. But if he couldn’t recover from his deranged mind, I will finish him myself,” she said.

It was the demon hunter possessed by the Shade of Chaos. After getting bombarded by 100,000 volts of current and bat swarm of Vivian, the demon hunter’s body was as black as coal. His body occasionally twitched with the electric current still flowing under his clothes. Hasse immediately bent down to examine the warrior’s condition. Aside from visible wounds on the outside, the warrior seemed fine mentally.

“He has healed?” White Flame was astonished. “How?”

“How?” The last thing Hesperides wanted was to talk to Hasse and White Flame, but since White Flame had asked, she replied, “With some good beating.”

Hasse’s face looked somber while he used magic to examine the injured demon hunter. Hao Ren sensed something was wrong. “How is he? Shouldn’t he have recovered?”

“This has never happened before. Normally, it requires a very complicated ritual to dispel the Shade of Chaos out of a person,” Hasse said without looking up. “A month ago, some demon hunters were attacked by these shadows. Since then, we have somewhat found the treatment according to some ancient records though the method is pretty troublesome. But I have never heard of anyone could heal a deranged person by giving him a good beating,” he said.

Lily interjected. “I saw on TV that the possessed people would recover after getting a good beating,” she said.

Hao Ren shot Lily a look. “As you said, it is a TV program; it is not real,” he said.

The MDT came out and muttered, “In fact, I know a person who can do that, but he is not here.”

Hasse did not hear what the MDT said as he was too engrossed with Hesperides and Vivian. “What have you done?” he asked Hesperides.

Hesperides thought for a while. She remembered she was wielding a mace and swung it indiscriminately at the possessed demon hunter, but she could barely hit the target. So she raised her finger pointing at Vivian. “She was the one making the last strike.”

“It’s the electric shock,” Vivian replied. “It’s the lightning discharge of the bat swarm. To me, it is a common move. It does not possess any exorcism power.”