Chapter 71 - Repaying the favor (1/2)

Translator: La0o9  Editor: La0o9

As the ceremonial dagger was pulled out, her blood began to flow, and Ellis fell to the ground. Having been pierced through in both her head and her heart at almost the same time by daggers, the young aristocratic lady with a strange hobby lost her life.

Before her death, the brief moment of pain was mixed with her ongoing ‘high’.

Some inexplicable things began to gather above her body and absorbed the white Life Essence that overflowed from her body. Right in front of the Hales members, the remnant soul that belonged to Ellis was forming.

The two Hales members exchanged glances and took out a gray stone. Unlike the other stones they used, this one was full of tiny holes.

The two cut open the corpse’s chest, removed all the useless internal organs, and put the gray stone inside.

A force capable of acting on souls was absorbing the remnant soul that was forming.

These grey stones were the Black Abyss stones obtained by Hales through their rituals over the years. It had the effect of preserving a person’s soul and vitality, a considerably precious resource.

If they only wanted to form a normal Evil Spirit, Hales would only need to use at most a single Black Abyss stone to greatly promote its creation.

But Hales didn’t spend years searching for Ellis just to turn her into a normal Evil Spirit, they did so because her soul had the potential to become the Chopped Hand.

To this end, they used a considerable amount of Black Abyss stones, and even boldly performed the ritual in Interkam – the home turf of those mad dogs of the Church of Divine Grace’s Heresy Hunters.

The castle was now full of corpses, each one of them had a Black Abyss stone buried inside their body. Some kind of force seemed to be acting near these corpses and made the blood flowing out of them form an eerie pattern.

The porous Black Abyss stone inside Ellis’ body continually vibrated. The Life Essence and Soul Essence stored in the Black Abyss stones inside the other bodies were slowly turning into a plume of mist and poured into the porous Black Abyss stone.

Eventually, these Life Essence and Soul Essence would be integrated into the remnant soul of Ellis, aiding her in becoming a qualified Evil Spirit. It would then perform a Fire-removal ritual for her and turn her into the Chopped Hand that represented God’s unfathomable side.

In addition to the Cut Tongue who had already returned to their position, and the Dazzled who they already found a candidate for, only the unreasonable side of God – the Decapitated – was left. Once the four sides of God were gathered, then the Black Abyss’ arrival in this world would not be far away.

Returning to the Black Abyss was the long-cherished wish of every member of Hales. They all used to be ordinary people, but in this world, being ordinary itself was a mistake.

This world should not be like this, why were nobles naturally born greater than they are? Why do they get to enjoy endless resources, money, food, rights and women?

Everyone is human, so why did some get to have everything they wanted, while they could only endure their tragic fate and suffer all kinds of torments just to helplessly die in the end?

Why was it like this? Did they make some sort of unforgivable sin that God punished them so for? Or was their fate like this from the start?

Why? Why? Why?

Why was there such a big gap between people?

And the answer that these people arrived at in the end was that the world itself was wrong.

And since the world was wrong, someone must correct it.