The figure finally stepped into view as the pale moonlight slipped down through the broken hole above the underground room.

From behind a mound of rubble, a figure slowly, shakily, rose to its full height.

It was the tall, suited demon—the one Riko had supposedly killed.

Its suit was torn and stained.

Half of its chest was still ripped open, but it didn't seem bothered by the damage at all.

Its vitality was unbelievable, far beyond what normality should have allowed.

Its flesh wriggled and stitched itself together, healing every wound it had taken.

Even the injuries that should have killed it were already closing up.

Its empty eye sockets fixed on the two new "prey."

A low, hungry growl rumbled in its chest, and it prepared to lunge... But then its gaze landed on the woman in the pristine white dress.

A powerful instinct of danger made the demon freeze.

Run!

With its intelligence, the demon immediately turned and fled!

Its long legs carried it with surprising speed down a dark tunnel.

It knew that the woman in the white dress was something it could not fight!

It didn't get more than twenty feet before its body began to decay and rot at a horrifyingly visible rate.

Its skin blistered and sloughed off, muscle tissue dissolving into black sludge.

Within mere seconds, its entire body crashed into the ground, leaving only disfigured bones.

Reymond watched the entire process without a flicker of surprise.

He had seen enough strange things that something like this no longer shocked him.

Priestess Putrescence had the same calm expression, as if this was simply what happened to anything foolish enough to run from her presence.

Priestess Putrescence suddenly stopped walking.

Her head tilted slightly, as if listening to a distant sound.

"A child climbed up into the gateway... "

She stated, her voice devoid of any concern.

"It is best you take your leave now. I will go dispose of that loose end and clean up the rest of this… mess."

Before Reymond could even form a response, her body seemed to deflate.

The beautiful woman collapsed in on herself, transforming into a simple, unremarkable pile of dark soil that scattered across the ground.

Reymond let out a breath he didn't realize he'd been holding, a shaky sigh of relief.

'They're not getting rid of me?'

He thought, his mind racing.

Although he did not know the reasoning behind the Coven of Abomination's mercy towards him, he had his own guesses.

He was about to leave when his gaze suddenly drifted toward a corpse lying several meters ahead.

It was Arthur...

The man had been impaled by a long metal rod, his body stuck against a collapsed pillar.

Reymond approached slowly, his eyes narrowing as he examined the corpse closely...

The sins inside Arthur had not been consumed yet!

His greed stirred as he walked towards the body, eager to absorb it...

He did not notice that a man had silently picked up a fallen gun near him that was earlier dropped by the Iron Jackal member named Riko.

The figure moved with an unnatural quietness, stepping over rubble without a sound.

Just as Reymond bent down, eager to claim the festering sins inside Arthur, the man was already standing directly in front of him.

Despite being mere feet away, Reymond's senses detected nothing.

It was as if the man were a ghost.

BANG!

A gunshot rang out as a small stone charm on Reymond's belt exploded into dust!

Alarmed, Reymond immediately rolled over to the side as he looked for the possible places the gunshot could have come from!

But there was no one.

BANG!

Another shot struck his head as his skull cracked open—

This time, a small pendant on his chest exploded as his head healed instantly!

A wave of disorientation washed over him as the item substituted a fatal head wound.

Reymond gritted his teeth and scrambled behind a stone pillar.

He ran while rolling and changing directions, his eyes desperately searching the darkness for the shooter.

However... there was still no one around!

He analyzed the situation...

'The marksman is invisible!'

Reymond immediately concluded!

As for who it was... the only person he knew capable of invisibility was definitely Seth!

'Did he use his ability to hide while the rest of the Iron Jackals died?'

In an instant, Reymond attempted to know Seth's location through his authority...

His current Sin of Hoarding allowed him to always sense any item or minuscule thing he claimed as "his," no matter the distance or concealment.

When he first met Seth in his apartment, he had quietly marked his shirt along with a single strand of his hair.

He could not directly "own" a person due to his low authority.

The mark on Seth's clothes at that time was just used by Reymond to show off his prowess, giving the illusion that he could pull Seth towards him anytime!

While the mark on Seth's hair strand was simply used to locate him!

Clothing could be removed and changed, but hair would stay for weeks before shedding.

And since he marked only one small strand, the sin energy was so tiny that Seth shouldn't have sensed it.

However... now, the mark was gone!

'Is it because of the explosion or did he somehow manage to sense the minuscule sin energy?'

As he analyzed this, another shot rang out.

BANG!

This time, it was the wallet in his back pocket that was destroyed as it took up the damage that was intended to harm its owner.

'Not good!'

Reymond was only a second circle witch of the Sin of Hoarding.

The maximum number of times he could redirect damage to his hoarded items had been reached!

Reymond immediately hid and ducked for cover as fast as he could.

Then, he reached into the air with his hand as he pulled out an item from his extradimensional pocket!

It was a single, sharp, blood-red tooth that brought a sense of wickedness!

It was the demonic weapon from the sin of cruelty!

As he mentioned during the meeting back at the small office in Kilammil, the item had two functions...

One was to bind entities in place, and the other was to sense if anyone had cruel or wicked intentions towards the user!

Immediately, a faint, cold signal prickled at the edge of his perception.

It was a thread of pure killing intent, and it was aimed directly at him.

The demonic weapon's power had quickly established a connection with Seth, which cancelled the effect of his invisibility.

However, what Reymond did not expect was that, despite his attempts to build distance between him and Seth...

Seth was already standing right over him, the barrel of the pistol pointed directly between his eyes.

"Wait.. I-"

Before Reymond could even speak, another gunshot rang out.

BANG!

The bullet tore through Reymond's forehead.

His body swayed for a moment before collapsing backward with a dull thud.

This time, no items on Reymond's body exploded to substitute the bullet's lethality.

Instead, a flowing stream of blood slowly enveloped the ground.

Reymond's eyes dimmed, losing all trace of life.

The underground fell silent once more.

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