Chapter 243: You Call This a Deal?
"Wizard Zole, please place the holy artifacts at these locations on the map."
William said as he handed over a folded piece of paper.
"This is... the villa's blueprint? Where did you get it?" Zole immediately recognized it after unfolding it.
"That's not important. Ms. Madison is still waiting for rescue."
William naturally couldn't say that he had stolen from the police station.
"You're right, I'll go right away!"
Watching Zole run into the villa again, William turned his head.
"Ms. Madison, given your despicable actions, I have no obligation to save you."
William, wearing a smile, walked to a position where the other party could see him.
"The reason you are still alive is only because these evil spirits are still useful."
"So before they are completely purified, I suggest you think carefully about what you will use to exchange for your own life."
Madison's pupil flickered.
At this moment, she inexplicably felt a trace of fear towards the man in front of her.
Not long after, Zole returned.
At the same time, William also sensed those holy artifacts arranged inside the house.
From now on, this piece of land belonged under the Holy Light.
After reminding Laine and the others to wait outside again, Zole carried Madison on his back and followed William to the villa's cellar.
This was the place with the densest evil aura in the entire house. As soon as he arrived here, William's Skin had already begun to become active. Seeing this, he raised an eyebrow.
"Maybe I can complete the reshaping of the entire palm this time."
Thinking of this, William came to a wall.
Accompanied by a "Bang", he smashed a gap into the wall.
William narrowed his eyes and fanned the air, only to see a larger place behind it.
A stale and rotten smell floated in the air, and dark red spots remained on the ground.
If he guessed correctly, this was the place where that Nazi doctor conducted human experiments.
William was the first to step through the gap.
Relying on the holy artifacts arranged in the villa, he had already confirmed there was no danger inside.
Zole had a curious face and quickly followed.
The inside still retained the appearance from decades ago.
Hospital beds, logbooks, experimental props...
Bursts of mournful wails echoed in William's ears; these were the tearful complaints from unjustly killed dead spirits.
"This place... seems to have very heavy resentment." Zole gulped, fine sweat seeping from his forehead.
Obviously, the evil aura here had exceeded the limit he could bear.
"Wizard Zole, leave the rest to me. Please wait outside the villa," William smiled.
He didn't want anyone else around while practicing.
"Okay..."
Zole took out a glass bottle as he spoke.
"This is a healing potion I formulated myself, maybe it will be of some use..."
"Thanks." William accepted it frankly.
After the other party left, he then opened the potion bottle stopper.
In the next moment, a unique smell of herbs surged out from inside.
At the same time, William raised an eyebrow.
The liquid inside the glass bottle actually contained a trace of Source Power. This phenomenon could only appear in high-quality artifacts.
"Could this guy be a genius in healing?" William couldn't help but think to himself.
After putting the potion away, he came to Madison's side.
At this time, this witch's eye stared straight at William, seeming to have something to say.
But William acted as if he didn't see it. He even turned her around to face the wall, and then casually found an old, torn cloth and covered her head.
Unknown, darkness, and an ill-intentioned person beside her...
Anyone encountering this kind of environment would feel despair.
After satisfying the wicked taste in his heart, William finally began to explore this secret laboratory.
Soon his eyes lit up.
William found a relatively large room. In the center was an old fixed bed, and the surrounding equipment was very complete.
But what he cared about the most were the bloodstains on the floor and equipment, and even some limb remains.
Obviously, this was that doctor's main "workspace," and the evil aura here was also the densest in the entire villa, very suitable for Skin practice.
After setting up a defensive magic array on the spot, William immediately rolled up his sleeves.
At the same time, at Madison's location.
Her skin suddenly bulged upwards, highlighting five or six faces with different appearances.
Many spirit body fluctuations also emerged in the air. Madison was anxious inwardly; she knew this was the evil spirits planning to rush out of her body.
But once she let the other party do this, that half of her body would be instantly corroded.
So Madison forcefully mobilized her remaining magic power to maintain the balance of the sealing witchcraft.
At the same time, she also felt a bit of a mental breakdown; that detestable priest actually left her here!
Compared to Madison, the evil spirits inside her body were pleasantly surprised.
Originally trapped by the witch, plus that priest possessing high-level holy artifacts, the evil spirits once thought their soul careers were about to end here.
But they didn't expect that stupid priest actually brought them to this laboratory.
This was their territory!
As long as they had a little more time, waiting for them to absorb enough evil aura, they could completely get rid of this woman.
At that time, these two humans would definitely pay the price!
But as the evil spirits drove their spirit body power, they were surprised to find that the evil aura here was rapidly decreasing.
How is this possible!
One must know, back then, over a hundred humans were brutally murdered in the laboratory, and their souls weren't even willing to open the gates of Hell.
The evil aura accumulated under these circumstances could reach an extremely terrifying level of filthiness.
And such a power was actually... disappearing?
While the evil spirits were shocked, William had also reached the critical moment of his practice.
At this time, with him as the center, the nearby evil auras were all absorbed over, forming a small vortex around his left hand.
If this scene were seen by someone who didn't know, they would definitely think it was some cultist setting up a sacrifice ritual.
William mobilized the Holy Power of his whole body to his left hand, fighting against the evil aura there.
Gradually, the Holy Power generated many spirit body threads, burying into the skin there inch by inch.
And an impression of a "Left Hand" was also being constructed in William's brain.
He could see this hand every day, and was more familiar with it than anyone else.
And at this moment, he deconstructed this hand anew.
In reality.
The skin on William's left hand became increasingly firm, and the nearby evil aura became less and less.
In the next moment, the skin on his left hand suddenly became fair, clean, and smooth, and he also opened his eyes.
"Phew... the left hand has finally been reshaped completely." William sized it up curiously.
"But is this really the skin from my butt? Why is it so white..."
The corner of his mouth twitched, restoring the two patches of skin to their original positions respectively.
"I thought I could reshape a second part along with it this time." William looked at the empty room around him and shook his head helplessly.
Fortunately, he still had materials left that hadn't been consumed!
Returning to the room where Madison was again, William took off the torn cloth from the witch's head.
Madison glared sideways at William, her eye sockets already red under her long, narrow eyelashes.
The moment she looked at William, a teardrop flowed from the corner of her eye, making her look like she had suffered all the grievances in the world.
"Crying will only ruin your makeup, and it won't save your life." William's expression was indifferent.
This woman had a venomous heart. If her scheme had really succeeded earlier, William didn't believe the other party would have spared him.
Therefore, there were no ripples in his heart.
Subsequently, William looked at the other half of her body again.
At this time, the skin on this part was completely withered, and quite a few evil spirit bodies were swimming madly under the epidermis, like stranded fish.
"Thank you for your hospitality; the evil aura here was very dense," William spoke up.
In the next moment, those spirit bodies suddenly stopped moving, and Madison's mouth opened accordingly, a low male voice coming out from inside.
"It really was you..."
"Are you Doris? Or Marcus?" William asked.
These were names of suspected deceased recorded in the files.
"Who are you? Why do you know these?"
"I also know that some of you were once used as human materials by the Nazi doctor, eventually dying of resentment," William said.
"Since you know these, then you should release us, not deprive us of our living environment!" The evil spirit roared.
"Release?" William snorted coldly.
"You were indeed killed by the Nazi doctor, but since then, you have also murdered many innocent people, haven't you? For example, that mother and her two daughters."
"They summoned us using the Ouija board, actually intending to profit from it! They all deserve to die!"
"Alright, alright." William waved his hand.
"Spare the high-sounding reasons. That mother just intended to modify the Ouija board to make a living and earn some living expenses; it was you who proactively contacted them."
"The identity of victims is indeed worthy of sympathy, but after your own self-corruption, you actually still want to be released? What shameless boasting."
"You!" The evil spirits let out bursts of roars.
At the same time, in the Exorcist Guild hall.
An exorcist was pacing in front of the commission board.
He inadvertently turned his head and suddenly noticed a message pop up on the high screen—Anonymous No. 947, Resentment Points +800.
This screen would display the changes in Resentment Points during commissions in real-time.
"Wow... actually increased by 800 points at once, this should be an 'Erosion' rated commission, right."
At this time, other people also noticed the situation here.
"Even on those 'Main Body Evils', it's very difficult to increase this much all at once. Looks like it's those guys at the top of the leaderboard again..."
More and more people in the hall noticed the screen.
Although this situation was surprising, it wasn't very rare to see. Therefore, after the small interlude, everyone quickly shifted their attention.
The laboratory in the villa's cellar.
"What... do you want to do? Could it be you want me to let this woman go?"
"Madison" raised her head slightly.
The corner of William's mouth twitched: "Ha, the power between you two is at a stalemate, and you actually want to use this as a bargaining chip?"
His eyes were full of disgust.
"Then what exactly do you want!" The evil spirits roared again.
Even as spirit bodies, they didn't want to listen to this priest say any more.
It's too infuriating to "Spirits"!
William smiled slightly: "There should still be quite a bit of evil aura within your spirit bodies, and I happen to have some interest."
He stuck out his pinky finger as he spoke.
"Why don't you release all these powers, and I promise to give you a quick death."
As soon as his voice fell, the room fell into silence.
Handing over remaining power in exchange for... being purified?
???
This could actually be proposed as a negotiation condition?
The evil spirits rarely used Madison's face to make a "Are you kidding me?" expression.
"As a human, you actually think we would agree to this condition?" The evil spirits hit back with the same words.
"Even this woman betrayed her companions in exchange for cooperation with us."
William glanced at the other side upon hearing this.
Madison immediately averted her eyes, not daring to meet his gaze at all.
"Talking to you is just to see if I can save some effort." William turned his head back.
"Since you have this attitude, then there's nothing to talk about?"
A roar came from "Madison's" throat: "Are everyone in your Church stupid people like you."
William said no more and immediately projected Holy Power onto Madison with his gaze.
At the same time, golden patterns also surfaced in his pupils.
Since practicing the second circle of golden patterns previously, he had already been able to influence the auras around spirit bodies.
At this moment, William immediately channeled the residual evil on Madison and enveloped it around those evil spirits.
The latter originally wanted to break through the seal applied by the witch.
But then they were surprised to find that the evil aura they had coexisted with all the time suddenly became unfamiliar at this moment.
The evil spirits were not only unable to draw power from it, but were instead slowed down in their own actions by these auras.
The other half of Madison's body calmed down at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"How could a guy like you possibly come from the Church!"
Only voices were left expressing the evil spirits' shock and anger.
William ignored them, but continued to focus on interfering with the spirit bodies.
Although the inside of Madison's body was very chaotic, from his perspective, he could clearly distinguish the outline of each evil spirit.
Among them were men and women, and even doctors.
"It seems that Nazi doctor even made himself into an experimental material," William narrowed his eyes and thought inwardly.
After clearly observing each evil spirit, he began to use Holy Power to isolate them individually.
After all, extracting evil aura is not easy; if handled together, there would inevitably be some waste.
William drove the Holy Power to wrap the evil spirits.
This step was not easy; not only did he have to consider the safety of the spirit bodies, but he also had to constantly guard against their counterattacks.
William used almost all of his concentration, and even quite a bit of sweat seeped out of his forehead.
And in his pupils, the third circle of golden patterns was also rapidly being etched.
Half an hour later.
"Phew..."
William breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at Madison in front of him, revealing a satisfied smile.
He saw dozens of small bumps bulging on the latter's body. Their sizes and shapes were very similar, and they were neatly and densely arranged together.
Seeing this scene, the eye representing Madison's consciousness was extremely terrified, and tears couldn't stop flowing out.
"Don't worry, there won't be any pain. I will guarantee your safety," William comforted.
But in Madison's eyes, this tone was simply no different from a demon!
She deeply regretted provoking... No! Why did she even let this person join in the first place!
That guy's clumsy attire back then was completely an illusion!
She had been tricked!
William had no idea about the inner torment the other party was going through at this time.
After the Eyes practice was completed, he prepared to continue the practice of the Skin stage.
Evil spirits can only release all the evil aura within their spirit bodies when they encounter massive emotional fluctuations.
For this, William had already prepared a method.
He took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and then looked at those "Small bumps" trapping the evil spirits.
"Since you are unwilling to dedicate your power, then I can only be forced to demand it from you."
"Hmph, evil human, don't you even think about getting any power from us!"
William rubbed his chin: "Evil human, huh... this is the first time someone has called me that."
"Anyway, everyone was already tortured by that doctor decades ago, and the suffering you endured is also recorded in some logs."
He paused after speaking, seemingly looking for something.
"For example, here, someone once found a corpse in a completely dark secret room. The latter had their tongue and vocal cords removed, and their lips were sewn together with thick thread..."
Accompanied by William's voice, quite a few of the "Small bumps" trembled.
"...During the autopsy, soft tissue fragments were found in the brain tissue of some deceased, but according to DNA comparison, this belonged to another person... Heh, played pretty hardcore."
"Sh... Shut up!" Some evil spirits could no longer listen.
William acted as if he didn't hear it.
"And this!" His eyes suddenly lit up.
"Investigators also found a body in a glass tank. Besides that, there was also embalming fluid made of arsenic, alcohol, and honey..."
"The corpse's heart also had a crucifix stuck in it, with strange runes carved on the tip..."
"Stop talking!" The evil spirits roared together.
"Human... what exactly do you want to do."
William's face was calm, but his words shocked Madison, as well as the evil spirits.
"I am going to let all of you, in your identities as evil spirits, experience the feeling of being tortured once again."
The fear in Madison's eyes could no longer be contained.
How did the person in front of her look like a human?
This was clearly a demon!
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