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Chapter 72

As the ceremonial blade was pulled out, blood began to gush out. Ellis fell to the ground, stabbed once in the head, then again in the heart. Almost in an instant, this aristocratic young lady with strange hobbies died just like that.

The moment before her death, the pain she felt was so addictive.

Above her body, some inexplicable things began to gather and absorb the white Life Essence that overflowed from her body. In the eyes of the Hales members, a remnant soul belonging to Ellis was being born.

The two Hales members glanced at each other and took out a grey-white stone. Unlike other grey-white stones, this one was riddled with tiny holes.

The two of them cut open the body's chest, took out all the useless internal organs, and put the grey-white stone inside.

A suction force acted on the soul body and absorbed the remnant soul that was being born.

This grey-white stone was the Stone of the Black Abyss that the Hales organization had obtained through various rituals over the years. It had the function of preserving people's souls and Life Essence, so it could be said to be a very precious resource.

If it was an ordinary Evil Spirit, the Hales organization would only need to use one of these Black Abyss stones to greatly facilitate the birth of an Evil Spirit.

After the birth of an Evil Spirit, the Hales organization had been searching for it for years and finally found Ellis. Naturally, it wasn't to turn her into an ordinary Evil Spirit, but because her soul had the potential to become the Chopped Hand.

That was why they used a large number of Black Abyss stones, even if it was in Interkam, where the mad dogs of the Church of Divine Grace's Inquisition were causing trouble, they didn't hesitate.

The entire castle was filled with corpses, all of which were buried with Black Abyss stones. As if some kind of power was acting on these corpses, the flowing blood around them formed a strange pattern.

The porous Black Abyss stone inside Ellis' body was constantly vibrating. The Life Essence and Soul Essence stored inside the Black Abyss stones turned into strands of mist and flowed towards the porous Black Abyss stones.

Eventually, these Life Essence and Soul Essence would fuse with Ellis' remnant soul, helping her become a qualified Evil Spirit, and finally perform the Fire Removal ritual for her to become one of the four faces of God, the Chopped Hand that represented the unfathomable.

In addition to the Cut Tongue who had already returned to his position, the Dazzled who had a target, and the Unreasonable who represented the Decapitator, once the four sides of God gathered, the Black Abyss would not be far from descending upon the world.

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

This world shouldn't be like this. Why should nobles be born a cut above others? Why should they be able to enjoy endless resources, money, food, power, and women?

Weren't they all human? Why were those people able to possess such things, while they could only endure their miserable fates, suffer all kinds of hardships, and die helplessly in the end?

Why was it like this? Was it because they had made an unforgivable mistake and God was punishing them? Or was this their fate?

Why? Why? Why?

How could there be such a huge gap between people?

In the end, these people found a reason, and that was that such a world was wrong.

Since the world was wrong, then they would correct this mistake.

These people who were determined to change this wrong world found some information about the Black Abyss. They devoted themselves to research and finally discovered the truth of the world. Light flashed through the Black Abyss, bringing with it flames. The ashes left behind by the flames changed their original appearance.

So at that time, Hales was established. The meaning of the word Hales was return. From the moment they were established, they had a great and lofty ideal!

Remove the ashes, extinguish the flames, dispel the light, and return the world to its original appearance — the Black Abyss!

Clothes were the product of fire, money was the product of fire, food was the product of fire, power was the product of fire, desire was the product of fire, and most of the things in the world were the product of fire.

So when they returned to the Black Abyss, everything about them would be removed. The identity of nobles, money, food, power, and women would all be removed. Everyone would return to the Black Abyss and return to their original appearance. At that time, everyone would be the same.

What a great ideal. Why did some people not understand it?

It must be because they were greedy for the color of light and the warmth of fire.

It must be because their original appearance was blurred by the ashes of hypocrisy and they were deceived by the useless beauty.

But it didn't matter, anyone who stood in the way of the return of the Black Abyss was an enemy enslaved by the flames, and it would be fine as long as they were eliminated.

The ritual inside the castle was in motion. Everyone would become sacrifices to allow Ellis' Evil Spirit to continue to grow, and after a while, the Chopped Hand would also return.

The three members of Hales stood outside the castle, looking at the ominous castle with pious expressions, then turned around and left. The more sacrifices there were, the better, the newborn Evil Spirit needed a lot of food.

The farmers and women were mercilessly killed by them, ignoring their pleas for mercy, ignoring their pain, forgetting that they had also suffered like this. The three people wearing black masks, under the shroud of black mist, slaughtered without any pause.

You are also poor and oppressed by the nobles, so you must be able to understand what we are doing!

Since you can understand what we are doing, then die, for our ideals, no, for all the injustices in the world, die!

"Sorry to bother you, jiejiejie" An ugly voice came. An ugly old woman with a walking stick appeared in front of the three Hales members who were slaughtering their way through the forest.

Next to this old woman stood three people. They were a 4-5 meters tall fat man, a spear-wielding man sitting on the fat man's shoulder, and a young man wearing a white robe with a smirk on his face.

They were the Ghostmen under Negri's command.

"It's like this, not long ago, your people sent a gift to our Lord, so in accordance with the Lord's order, we have come to return the gift!" Sieh Mother-in-law said very politely.

"Why, such a noble ideal must be stopped by someone, you slaves of the flames, die!" The members of Hales didn't care about their words at all. For them, anyone who stopped the return of the Black Abyss was an enemy.

"I think you must have misunderstood something, jiejiejie" Sieh Mother-in-law let out an ugly laugh, completely ignoring the attacks of the members of Hales.

Slamming the cane in her hand on the ground, Sieh Mother-in-law loudly declared: "We have come with the will of our Lord Negri, so no matter who you are, what noble ideals or evil plans you have, you will all be dominated by the will of our Lord Negri!"