Chapter 236: Battle
Hearing this, the evil spirit's movements obviously paused for a moment.
Grande turned her head.
Seeing that familiar figure, her heart was instantly filled with a sense of security, and even her tense nerves eased a lot.
"Will!"
Grande imitated Judy's tone.
At this moment, she had strength in her body again, so she hurriedly got up and hid behind William.
Seeing this, William sighed helplessly: "Ms. Grande, haven't you thought that I might be an illusion forged in your brain by the evil spirit?"
Grande only then reacted; she seemed to have completely not suspected the other party.
"You... you you you..."
She panicked inwardly, not knowing for a moment whether she should leave or not.
"Then are... you?"
Grande stared at William, biting her lips tightly.
"Didn't we leave a secret signal in advance." William shook his head again, feeling worried about the vigilance of the North American people.
Grande was stunned, remembering there seemed to be such a thing.
So after thinking for a moment, she tentatively spoke: "Who is the strongest exorcist on the west coast of the Pacific?"
"Uncle Nine."
"No... incorrect, that's a character he played." Grande showed a thoughtful look, repeating the words from her memory.
William nodded: "Secret signal correct."
Grande finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But then she revealed a worried look again: "Will... can you see it, and those audiences."
"Leave this place to me, you hide aside first." William handed an amulet to Grande.
These past few days, in order to find traces of the evil spirit, he hadn't asked the girl to carry holy artifacts in advance.
At the same time, William also kept staying beside Grande; as long as the latter encountered danger, he could strike at any time.
Grande nodded vigorously: "You have to be careful."
After speaking, she hid on the side of the stage.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." William finally looked at the monster opposite again.
While he was talking to Grande, the Smile Entity actually didn't launch an attack, but instead looked like it was waiting patiently.
"Church guy, you can't save her."
The monster actually spoke in Grande's voice.
William instantly narrowed his eyes.
Being able to communicate meant this evil spirit possessed a certain independent consciousness.
At the same time, the other party also recognized that William came from the Church.
Under these circumstances, it was impossible for the evil spirit not to know some of the Church's methods.
But just now it didn't launch an attack, but waited quietly.
This was a bit strange.
Assuming the other party's strength was powerful enough, facing William's deliberate ignoring, it was unlikely to endure this humiliation, if the evil spirit really had this kind of emotion.
If the other party could ignore verbal insults and attitudinal contempt.
Then such an evil spirit could be considered a big villain even in the evil world.
William didn't believe such an existence dared to walk so blatantly in the human world.
He had already dealt with many guys from the Hell faction and Fallen Angel faction.
As strong as those people were, before launching a sacrifice ritual, they all had to tuck their tails and cause trouble in the dark.
Therefore, William quickly ruled out this possibility again.
Then, if it wasn't that the evil spirit in front of him was too arrogant and stupid, there was only one possibility—the other party also needed time and was planning something.
Thinking of this, William spoke again: "I didn't expect you could actually talk. Interested in telling me your origins?"
"Are the people of the Church still so stupid? Actually trying to ask an evil spirit its name." The monster's tone was full of sarcasm.
William raised an eyebrow and continued:
"So to speak, you have appeared in the human world before."
He had a thoughtful look.
"Speaking of which, in the Church's exorcism commission records, there indeed was a similar situation."
"Weird smiles, hallucinations that couldn't be distinguished from reality... was that evil spirit your companion?"
The bloody monster snorted coldly upon hearing this: "That guy was just a low-grade good."
William narrowed his eyes; these words eliminated a doubt in his heart.
"Low-grade good, so to speak, you also plan to pollute the world with curses, thereby achieving the occupation of the human world?" He continued to probe.
The bloody monster suddenly floated into the mid-air, and then scarlet energy fluctuations surged around it.
Immediately after, all the audiences below raised their heads.
"Human, you can take a guess."
William fell silent.
This evil spirit was obviously more cunning than those he had encountered before.
He recalled during the previous investigation, the other party kept hiding its traces.
From this, it could be seen that the evil spirit daring to show up at this time must have some kind of confidence.
No matter what the other party was planning, William didn't intend to wait any longer.
"You are different from other evil spirits, but you should know, this venue has already been arranged by me."
William still had a calm look on the surface.
"Anything you want to do will ultimately fail."
"Of course I know." The bloody monster suddenly spoke.
"The statues at the ticket gates, the large magic array inside the venue, the Holy Water traps on the stage..."
Its voice was hoarse: "This place is full of the stench of Holy Power everywhere!"
"It seems you are very confident in what you are preparing." William was not annoyed by the other party seeing through the arrangements.
"Hmph, you are indeed quite different from other Church guys. As long as I get close to your vicinity, I can smell a burst of danger." The Smile Entity said.
"In order not to let you notice, I indeed spent quite a bit of time. As long as there is a place where you exist, I would hide a few kilometers away."
"If the people of North America had your awareness, maybe I could have retired long ago." William couldn't help but speak.
He didn't expect an evil spirit to actually have such high vigilance.
"Hmph, but at this moment you are no longer a threat. The curse of the Smile has long been planted on these humans." The evil spirit said.
"If you mean these." William said and took out a piece of paper from his pocket, with a twisted smiling face drawn on it.
"These things can indeed achieve a certain mental interference, but long before the concert started, security checks had already confiscated these contraband items..."
The evil spirit said: "The power of the smile can not only be transmitted in reality."
As soon as its voice fell, the audiences below suddenly all took out their phones, and the picture on them was impressively that smiling face.
"This... this is what I posted on the internet." Grande's voice suddenly came from behind.
She covered her mouth, holding her phone in her hand.
William's figure instantly appeared beside her.
He snatched it and looked; the screen stayed on a space like a chat room.
And before Grande looked for William for help, she had already posted the picture inside.
And with her influence, who knows, the picture might have already been spread multiple times.
The situation took a sharp turn downwards at this moment.
At the same time, the power on the bloody monster strengthened again.
And a pure white faint light also surfaced inside the audiences below.
Many outlines of "Human figures" surfaced from the audiences.
"This is... soul peeling." William narrowed his eyes.
"Human, your strength is indeed not bad, but you cannot escape."
Many fleshy tentacles suddenly stretched out from the bloody monster's body; they stuck to the audiences, dragging the latter's souls out.
At the same time, a huge vortex also gradually formed on top of the monster's head, and all souls were sucked into it.
William immediately observed with [Holy Eye], and saw that it seemed to contain an older power.
This power could act directly on the soul, making the soul body produce a natural instinct to merge.
Even William felt a wave of dizziness.
Without any hesitation, he immediately activated the holy artifacts arranged in advance in the venue, and at the same time took out a bottle of Holy Water and drank it down.
But the peeling of the spirit bodies did not stop.
"Hmph, give up struggling. This is a high-tier demon power; even if you have accepted the power of 'Pouring', you cannot escape." The bloody monster said.
"Soon... I will be able to completely possess this power."
The evil spirit showed the emotion of "Excitement" for the first time.
"So... you plan to promote... your tier." William spoke with difficulty.
Through the Demon God Marbas incident, he had long known that evil existences could also achieve promotion through certain methods.
"It's too late to guess now." The bloody monster drove the power in the vortex.
William instantly felt a stronger peeling force.
Grande aside had already fainted, and her soul was also floating towards the mid-air.
Seeing this, William forcefully felt for his robe and took out a brown face mask from inside.
Since discovering the clue of "Soul Peeling," William had kept the [Smiling Face Mask] on him all along.
Besides wanting to use it to find clues, another purpose was to prevent this situation.
And seeing it, the evil spirit in the mid-air showed panic in its tone for the first time.
"What! How could you have this thing!"
It immediately mobilized the vortex power; the surging suction force even brought William's body into the air.
At the same time, the fleshy tentacles on the bloody monster flew out again.
But William had already put on the face mask a step ahead.
Pfft... Pfft...
The fleshy tentacles pierced his body, bringing up several blood flowers.
In the next moment, William grabbed them tightly.
"About to achieve your goal, and actually saying those classic lines of villains before failure."
William's voice was no longer as calm as in the past; at this moment it was somewhat frivolous instead.
"What a stupid evil spirit."
As soon as his voice fell, powerful Holy Power surged in his hand, instantly destroying those fleshy tentacles into flying ash.
At the same time, William's soul body also overlapped with his physical body, and the suction force of the vortex lost its effect on him.
"What did you say!"
The bloody monster seemed to have some anger and drove more fleshy tentacles to rush towards William.
The latter stood in place, raising his head and sucking in the smell in the air.
"The smell of an evil spirit, and an evil spirit about to be promoted..." William's breathing suddenly became rapid, and his tone was also full of greed.
"It really makes one unable to stop!"
In the next moment, the fleshy tentacles also stabbed towards his vital parts.
But William didn't start moving until one second before his body was hit.
He twisted his body freely in the air, like a dance, actually dodging all those attacks.
Then he threw out five bottles of 30-year vintage Holy Water, flying towards the Smile Entity.
Feeling the powerful Holy Power inside, the evil spirit didn't dare to take it head-on, and could only hurriedly dodge in one direction.
But immediately after, a powerful Holy Light lit up there.
It turned out to be a holy statue William had arranged here in advance.
Sizzle... Sizzle...
A burning smell appeared in the air.
The Smile Entity hissed and dodged towards another side.
But William was already waiting here.
He unzipped his backpack with one hand, and then an iron nail slid out from inside.
The moment he grabbed the iron nail, the powerful Holy Power instantly activated the magic array on it.
Pfft!
The iron nail stabbed fiercely into the evil spirit's bloody flesh body.
The latter felt pain for a moment and paused in place for a moment.
But William started circling the other party.
One circle.
Two circles.
His figure became increasingly blurred until only an afterimage remained.
At the same time, more and more iron nails appeared on the evil spirit's body.
Every single one flashed with a massive amount of Holy Power, containing the aura on the evil spirit's body, making it unable to move at all.
"Now you've tasted the feeling of being stabbed?"
William appeared in front of the evil spirit again, stepping fiercely on the latter's head.
Bang!
A large pit was instantly smashed into the stage.
"Create hallucinations? Smile Curse?"
William kicked one after another, stomping the evil spirit's entire head into the ground.
Then he threw out five more bottles of Holy Water, pulled out the stoppers, and placed them on the surface of the evil spirit's physical body. As long as the latter moved slightly, the Holy Water would immediately spill.
"The other personality is really a coward, actually leaving such a strong body unused, hiding behind all day."
William closed his eyes, squeezed his fists, and felt the exhaustion of a large amount of Holy Power being consumed.
"Really satisfying... don't you think so?"
He looked at the bottom of the pit.
If anyone familiar with William saw him like this right now, they would definitely be startled.
Twisted smiling face, holy black robe, and covered in bloodstains...
Such an incongruous scene would actually appear on that cautious and meticulous priest?
William jumped into the deep pit, squatting in front of the evil spirit.
At this time the latter was covered in scars all over, and even the evil aura around it became very sparse.
William grabbed the evil spirit's bloody and ugly face, and then actually brought his own face close to the other party.
"Hiss... Ah..."
He sucked greedily.
A wave of evil aura mixed with blood rushed into his nasal cavity.
Although it was cleansed thoroughly by Holy Power the next moment, William still revealed an expression of pleasure.
His hands also exerted more and more force.
At this moment, "Fear" actually showed in the Smile Entity's eyes.
"Ah~ Sorry, sorry, did I scare you?"
William reluctantly got up from the other party.
"You... you this... monster." The evil spirit spoke hoarsely, its body also trying hard to move backward, attempting to stay further away from this priest.
"Monster, huh..."
William touched his cheek.
"I only got this item after destroying your companion."
The Smile Entity's eyes instantly widened.
"That guy was actually purified by you..."
It came from an unknowable space, not belonging to any force like Hell or Heaven, but a native existence of that space.
Due to the particularity there, it possessed the power to peel souls from the day it was born.
This power could make even demons and angels not dare to underestimate it.
And that face mask was its only weakness.
The existence of this item could even be traced back to a period more distant than its birth.
But due to the closed nature of the unknowable space, no item could escape from there.
Therefore, the Smile Entity was fearless.
But it didn't expect it would actually see the [Smiling Face Mask] in the human world.
How is this possible!
But no matter how surprised the evil spirit was, this had already become a fact.
"Even if you purify me... you cannot stop the peeling of souls." The Smile Entity was still putting up its final resistance.
"Why should I stop it?"
The evil spirit was instantly stunned upon hearing this.
Purify evil, save stupid civilians; isn't this the responsibility the Church has always pursued?
But it looked at the priest opposite and found the other party was also sizing it up with greedy eyes.
For some reason, the Smile Entity actually gave rise to a creepy emotion.
Opposite.
William licked his lips: "Bloody flesh body, highly self-aware consciousness... your soul must be very delicious."
Smile Entity: ???
Why do you look like a villain!
William's breathing became more and more rapid, and drool also flowed from the corners of his mouth.
He stepped forward step by step, his hands also reaching out unconsciously.
"NO! NO!"
The Smile Entity only felt an intense danger approaching.
But it couldn't move, and could only watch helplessly as the priest's hands touched its flesh.
"NOOOOOOO!!!"
A miserable scream rang out in the venue.
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