novelraw Chapter 182: Every Living Person Must Be Killed!
Chapter 182: Every Living Person Must Be Killed!
In that instant, raging flames carrying brutal curses instantly engulfed Lynn.
The violent crimson flames reflected in his furious pupils.
His hand finally reached in front of the Vengeful Ghost at that moment.
Curse Purge! Activate!
Buzz—
A blinding light suddenly erupted from Lynn's palm, transforming into pale streams that wildly surged through the malicious flames like winding threads, rushing toward the Vengeful Ghost right before him.
The little girl's pupils abruptly dilated as she let out a sharp, piercing shriek.
Countless burning human faces symbolizing curses were frantically stripped from her body by those threads.
Like a grand fireworks display, they spread along the curse's veins, wildly extending to the surrounding walls, spreading throughout the ancient castle in all directions!
Erase!Destroy!
Extract!
"Ahhh—"
The massive extraction sensation made the Vengeful Ghost scream in pain and resentment.
Because for Vengeful Ghosts, curses are the companions of hatred and resentment, the flesh and blood clinging to their bones. Extracting curses equals stripping away their very substance.
"How dare you!"
Amid the piercing shriek, her bloody hand almost instantly viciously pierced through Lynn's chest, bursting out from his back.
This time it wasn't illusory, but a real penetration!
Crimson blood instantly gushed from his back, splattering into scarlet rain amidst the raging flames.
But precisely at this moment, she suddenly saw Lynn raise his head.
She saw the terrifying smile blooming on his face.
"You let me... get close to you..."
Buzz—
In that instant, the Vengeful Ghost's eyes sharply contracted.
But it was already too late. With that elegant smile, Lynn's hand violently pierced into her chest, and amidst the surging flames and white torrents, he embraced her body.
Endless hatred and malice immediately flowed from her body like greedy black vines, wildly wrapping around his arms, instantly pouring into his body, stabbing straight into his consciousness.
It felt like endless wailing.
Like falling into hell.
Scalding yet icy, bone-chilling yet brutal.
In that moment, countless images surged wildly through his pupils along with the hatred and resentment.
[Ding! Host's life force is depleting!]
But Lynn paid no attention at all.
As countless images flooded in, he seemed to genuinely feel the hatred in that girl's heart at that moment.
He saw her being imprisoned alone in an iron cage within a high tower, saw her father with an icy expression whipping her repeatedly with a lash!
He saw her cruel and pathological mother using scissors to slowly cut off her golden hair, mixing it with animal entrails and forcefully stuffing it into her mouth, making her eat!
He saw her insane and excited brother using a dinner knife to carve deep, bone-revealing wounds on her arms and face.
It was a piercing shriek erupting from the depths of her heart.
Torture.
Abuse.
Yet even so, a sliver of hope still lingered deep within her heart.
Like memories of past days, like times when she used to sit with her family before a warm fireplace. Her father always returned late from work, but her godmother treated her extremely well, never making her feel like an outsider. Her brother was mischievous, but whenever she was bullied, he would always step forward and fiercely chase those people away.
It was a noble family living in the Middle Ages.
The castle was eerie yet warm.
The knight uncle was very strict, but on birthdays he would secretly give her small gifts.
The chef uncle was rough, but when she occasionally sneaked in, he would smilingly slip her some pastries.
The doctor brother was the scariest because whenever she was sick, he would make Alice drink that very bitter medicine. But every time after drinking it, whether it was a cold or cough, she would quickly recover.
So Alice knew that the doctor brother was also someone who treated Alice well.
Until she was imprisoned in the high tower.
Hung in a cage.
Gazing at the sky beyond the tower.
Because of those past beautiful memories, no matter how cruel the torture, hope still lingered in her heart.
Hoping this was just a nightmare.
That after waking from the dream.
Her father, mother, and brother, everyone in the castle, would still show her warm smiles.
But she never got that.
What she got was that night, the blood-stained butcher knives wielded by faces full of madness and cruelty.
Stab—stab—stab—
Like three vicious dogs tearing apart prey, they swung their butcher knives with smiles, cruelly tearing her apart piece by piece in that high tower.
Hatred!
Unstoppable hatred and resentment!
It completely erupted the moment she was dismembered. She had waited for nothing, the nightmare she thought it was turned out to be the bloody reality.
She gradually heard a woman's vicious voice by her ear.
She gradually recognized that voice as her birth mother's.
But hadn't she already died?
Why could she still speak in Alice's ear?
It didn't matter anymore!
Mom said they were all malicious, they all wore hypocritical masks, they were irredeemable evil spirits from the bottom of their hearts.
Mom said she was killed by them.
So.
It wasn't just Alice who was killed.
Mom said she wanted Alice to stay with her forever, Mom said she must not let those people go, Mom told Alice to kill, so Alice killed.
Father must die!
Godmother must die!
Brother must die!
Every living person in the castle must die!
But Alice didn't want to kill the chef uncle, because uncle secretly brought food to Alice in the cage. Alice also didn't want to kill the doctor brother, because the doctor brother had cried for Alice, he wanted to secretly help Alice escape, but his legs were chopped off.
No... it doesn't matter anymore.
Because Alice was already... no longer human...
Countless images surfaced amid the surging hatred, bone-chillingly cold, yet making one feel incredibly angry.
Because Lynn knew!
All of this was merely manipulated behind the scenes by her birth mother, that malicious and jealous woman!
Not only had she cruelly destroyed this entire family, she had also ruined her daughter's happiness. And now she was parasitizing her daughter's body, using this ancient castle's curse as foundation, greedily continuing to release her malice in this Dark World.
One creature after another was lured into this castle to be slaughtered.
Their souls were embedded into every brick of the castle, their flesh and blood was made into delicious feasts. She used their skins to create puppet after puppet to deceive her daughter.
She had been controlling that girl from beginning to end.
From before death to after death!
She wouldn't let herself rest in peace, nor would she let her daughter rest in peace!
Lynn gritted his teeth, desperately searching for that soul amid the countless malicious energies enveloping him. The curse erasure had temporarily eliminated part of this Vengeful Ghost's power, but the surging malice and hatred were still wildly assaulting his consciousness.
Like jumping belly-first into a freezing icy pond.
Bone-chilling cold enveloped him from all directions.
Continuing to dive deeper.
Continuing to search.
And finally, at that moment, he found that girl within the endless hatred.