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The bar, which used to be a bustling place, had become totally abandoned ever since its owner and guests were cut into pieces. More bizarre was the strange influence that the tragedy had on the nearby residents. Every pet around the area, down to the last animal, had run away after the incident.

All the residents would have the same dream at night. In their dreams, they were naked and tied to a cross. There were many horrible dark green thorns around them that would whip them bloody!

Under such circumstances, even the bravest dare not live there any longer. Every person who moved out would fall ill, but fortunately, life would return to normal after that. News soon spread and eventually, everyone chose to move away.

Therefore, almost no one saw the Cardinal when he arrived. There was only an old drunkard who was a local inhabitant here. What he feared most was not any nightmare, but having no money to buy alcohol. Because the other people moved away in a hurry, they left a lot of cumbersome stuff behind. Those things provided money for the old man to buy drinks.

When the old man heard the noise, he initially rushed over in a fit of anger because he thought that a thief had invaded his ”territory” and wanted to take away the properties that belonged to him, but his attention was quickly grabbed by the Cardinal's attire. It took a while for him to realise that the priest robe actually grew out of the Cardinal's body. Even if his brain had been dulled by all the alcohol he had consumed, such a bizarre scene still instilled fear in him.

He naturally tried to run away, but the Cardinal had long discovered him and would never give him the chance.

With a point of the Cardinal's finger, the old man was quickly lifted off the ground as if he floated up by himself. He screamed and kicked, causing a bottle of Chivas to fall out of his trouser's pocket. The bottle of Chivas crashed to the ground and the sweet alcoholic aroma instantly permeated through the air. The loss of the love of his life caused the old drunkard to swear profusely at the Cardinal.

The Cardinal's eyes turned cold.

”You lowly human. How dare you blaspheme the glory of God?”

With a wave of his hand, the old man's voice instantly stopped. His whole body suddenly…. separated. Yes, separated, not exploded. The gentle manner in which his body broke apart was hard to describe; it was the same way that meat would fall off from a bone piece by piece when it was boiled. The scene exuded a calm cruelty!

After a few seconds, the old man was completely broken apart. His hair, skin, flesh and bones were neatly separated and hung in the air. As for the blood, they gathered in front of the Cardinal in the form of a basketball-sized sphere.

With another wave of the Cardinal's hand, the rest of the remnants fell to the ground. Meanwhile, the basketball-sized blood sphere spread in front of the Cardinal to form a horrifying translucent blood mirror!

Through the blood mirror, the Cardinal saw everything that had happened here with cold, indifferent eyes..... A large number of people flocked toward the exit, but there seemed to be a transparent barrier that blocked all of them. The people screamed hysterically but it was to no avail. Next came Togo with his deformed arm, laughing and wantonly massacring, splitting the bodies into parts.

The Cardinal moved forward. He was indifferent to these tragic scenes. The blood mirror moved together with him. They finally stopped in the middle of the dance floor. The bone words that had crumbled into ashes once again appeared in his vision. The Cardinal couldn't help but mutter:

”Such beautiful madness! Such refreshing evil!”

Then, the Cardinal went over to the place where the bone words were and took a deep breath. The breath he inhaled seemed like it would never end. The force was so strong that a violent wind blew through the entire gloomy underground space. Not only did the wind scatter lightweight things such as paper and plastic bags, it even threw heavier things like wine bottles around the place!

After that, the Cardinal's hands glowed bright. The sound of hymns and gospels mysteriously rose in the surrounding. A slight disturbance could be felt from the floor. Then, a symbol which gave off a sacred feeling slowly emerged.

The symbol represented one of the seven deadly sins: Pride!

If one were to look carefully, they would see that the symbol did not appear out of thin air, but was formed from a small joint of bone from a pinky finger!

The Cardinal pinched the finger bone between his thumb and forefinger, then slowly exclaimed in a tone full of praises:

”Welcome back, my children, my servants, my weapons.....”

Then, the Cardinal opened his mouth and swallowed the bone!