"The merciful Lord in His heavenly kingdom saw the injustice on earth.
He taught us to carry out His will and execute punishment on His behalf."
Within the surging blood river, Silas softly chanted.
Blood river, shepherding the Red Angel, Torment in his body, illusory seawater emanating outward... at this moment, he had exhausted every means at his disposal.
The full output of his spirituality left his mind in a daze, causing him to unconsciously chant the ancient prayer once more.
Crimson color soaked the palace grounds.
On the river's surface, countless blood-colored figures emerged.
They were the combination of the Great Smog victims' residual souls and Silas's flesh and blood.
Bearing their resentment, they charged toward the palace guard.
The armored guards weren't backing down.
Their swords formed a forest as they swung, easily cutting down the blood flesh puppets closing in on them. But after one batch of blood flesh puppets fell, even more puppets surged forward.
They were surrounded by dozens of times more enemies!
"Death!"
The two leading Sequence 5 Disciplinary Knights solemnly declared, their longswords radiating punitive radiance.
With one sword strike, a large fan-shaped area before them instantly cleared.
"Boom!"
Then a barrage of crimson fireballs flew toward them, carrying intense heat as they exploded.
From within the flames leaped agile Beyonder puppets, continuously launching attacks with air guns and card throwing knives.
Pyromaniac and Faceless subjects!
On another side, Mr. A and the "Wraith" Steve each led a group of puppets to engage Duchess Georgina.
Two Sequence 5s against one Sequence 4 honestly still wasn't enough.
But Georgina still found them difficult to handle because these two Sequence 5s wouldn't die no matter how many times she killed them, and her core abilities like "Prohibition" and "Deprivation" were suppressed by the illusory tide sounds, making them difficult to activate!
"O Lord, You have given me the gate of my enemies.
At Your rebuke the depths of the sea appeared, and at the blast of Your anger the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook."
Silas flipped his palm and produced a palm-sized card. On it was drawn Roselle in demonic form enslaving humans.
The "Abyss" card!
He chanted softly while directly stabbing the card into his body!
"Ungh!"
Everyone simultaneously let out intense cries.
Under the effect of "Torment," Silas's pain faithfully fed back to each person.
And as the card pierced him, his body rapidly changed, beginning to grow taller, becoming more imposing, wings sprouting from his back, horns growing from his head...
He completed his "Demonization"!
Not only that, relying on the status of the "Abyss" card, his body was far more magnificent than an ordinary demon, his aura even more imposing!
"The Lord commands me to crush them like dust before the wind, to cast them out like mud in the streets..."
The twisted, terrifying demon radiated maddening desire throughout his body yet still offered prayers to the divine.
"Well said, boy, well said!"
Hearing Silas's praises to the "Lord," Medici couldn't help but laugh in appreciation.
Facing Him were Prince Grove and Qonas.
This "Red Angel" evil spirit alone confronted one Sequence 3 and one Sequence 4, yet in the short term didn't fall behind.
No, not just Him. The bloody wounds on His face had already split open, and the souls of Sauron and Einhorn manifested as well.
They too seemed extremely satisfied with such a battlefield and joined together in attacking the enemies before them.
The battlefield was thus divided, giving Silas the opportunity to act independently.
"Whoosh!"
His bat wings behind him beat the air fiercely as he advanced rapidly, launching a surprise attack on the palace guard squad.
"Desire Shock!"
Silas swiftly stirred the desires of the two "Disciplinary Knights."
Though they wore black armor that concealed their faces, under such an assault their bodies swayed, but they quickly adjusted and resisted the emotional fluctuation.
"Thunk!"
What awaited them was Silas's self-mutilation. He viciously stabbed his dagger into his own abdomen and twisted it frantically!
"Ahh!!"
The entire guard squad screamed in agony.
Even the two leading Sequence 5s couldn't withstand it. This was a hundred times more painful than suffering the same injury themselves!
Silas seized this opportunity.
He didn't care about the wound in his abdomen but raised high his magma greatsword and charged straight ahead, directly cleaving the two Disciplinary Knights in half.
"Boom..."
After killing the Sequence 5s, he didn't slow down as he plowed through the guard squad, carving out a crimson chasm through the crowd. This squad that guarded the kingdom suffered massive casualties in an extremely short time.
With the lead knights killed, the battlefield's balance was immediately broken. The remaining few knights were besieged by the puppets and after several screams were completely wiped out.
"No!"
Georgina shrieked in fury. The aura on her body instantly surged as she pushed away Mr. A and Steve who were entangling her and charged straight toward Silas!
"Execute!"
She swung an invisible whip down toward Silas's back.
"Crack!"
A terrible sound rang out. Silas's entire back was torn open, his pale spine and shoulder blades directly exposed to the air.
"Ahh..."
He roared in agony. This extreme pain was equally transmitted to the duchess across from him. And she at least was a Sequence 4 demigod with some resistance to "Torment," forcibly enduring this pain. Just as she was about to swing her whip again, she saw...
Embedded beneath the skin of Silas's back was a peculiar picture frame.
This frame wasn't facing outward with its front but rather facing her with its back.
Duchess Georgina couldn't see the content of the painting.
But the instant she saw the frame's back, some invisible domain manifested.
Georgina felt the life force within her body pouring out, being rapidly absorbed by that painting!
What the hell is this thing!
Georgina was horrified. She felt her skin rapidly becoming wrinkled, her hair withering.
Terror of aging surged into her heart in an instant. This Sequence 4 demigod hesitated!
And this instant of wavering brought her a fatal conclusion.
"Whoosh..."
Blood waves rose up, sweeping toward her from behind. Just as she was still panicking over the changes to her appearance, she was instantly engulfed!
Damn it!
Georgina thought, trying to break free from the river water and return to the air.
Then, she heard chaotic, illusory, viscous tide sounds.
Were they tide sounds?
No, they were something more profane, more insane, more difficult to perceive, more difficult to comprehend...
"Ahhhhhhh!"
Georgina let out a scream as if her soul was being annihilated. Though covered by blood, she seemed to see a boundless, indescribable ocean of terror!
And so she went mad.
"Whoosh!"
When she burst from the blood river, her entire body had undergone a terrible transformation.
She had become a bloated monster, her whole body covered in translucent bubbles, each bubble reflecting fierce yet majestic light.
She had lost control!