Both time-traveled characters ended up as villainous henchmen.

Henia gazed at Terence, who lay motionless amidst rubble and bricks, having pierced through several walls in the distance, her voice icy cold.

An eerie silence fell over the room, broken only by the constant crackling of lightning around Henia, which emitted a series of deep, chilling roars.

This scene, witnessed by the beautiful woman who had been thrown into the corner of the room by the impact, combined with Henia's cold and emotionless words, made it seem as if a demon god of death had descended upon the world.

The woman wanted to scream, but out of fear, she desperately covered her mouth with both hands, afraid that making a sound would attract the attention of the assailant.

However, Henia never paid any attention to her from beginning to end.

He only had eyes for Terrence, that piece of trash.

He held back his strength in that punch earlier, because if he made it too easy for his opponent to die, Henia would feel like he was letting himself down.

Fortunately, Terence is stronger than the four mages who fought the Scorpion, so he can withstand several more attacks from Henia.

Henia slowly walked towards the unconscious Terence, and more and more lightning gathered around her, gradually condensing into the shape of a spear, which she held in her hand.

Meanwhile, stray lightning continued to strike the unconscious Terence, making the burnt smell on his body increasingly intense.

After reaching Terence's side, Henia raised the lightning spear she had conjured and aimed it at Terence's severely deformed and hideous head.

Seemingly realizing that his life was about to end, Terence finally mustered all his strength and regained consciousness.

In his blood-red, blurred vision, Terence saw a figure that was both familiar and unfamiliar to him.

"Hernia..."

Terence would never forget Henia's appearance, but the chilling killing intent emanating from Henia at this moment, as well as the terrifying magical fluctuations, were completely different from the wretched waste he remembered.

Were we being manipulated?

Or...did he awaken dark magic?

In his final moments, Terence was only thinking about these two questions. As for his own life or death, that had already been decided when Henia blasted him away with a single punch.

It's impossible not to be afraid.

But Terence also knew that, given the relationship between him and Henia, there was no possibility of reconciliation.

Therefore, he desperately hoped that Henia had awakened dark magic, so that in addition to the crime of killing her guildmate, Henia would also bear an even greater crime.

At that time, not only the Guild Alliance, but also the government and the Magic Council will issue arrest warrants for Henia!

"Ha... Just wait to die..."

Terence's face was contorted and grotesque, and he let out a strange laugh as if a tattered sack was being pulled.

Henia remained unmoved, and instead slowly and steadily plunged the spear formed from lightning into Terence's head.

Henia controlled the lightning magic with great skill. After piercing Terence's head, it did not dissipate and explode. Instead, it spread rapidly from the lightning spear to every corner of Terence's body in a weak and stable manner.

Unimaginable pain struck, yet Terence was unable to scream.

He could only clearly perceive every cell in his body being devoured bit by bit by the raging lightning.

With a loud "boom," Terence lasted for ten seconds before exploding into a cloud of ashes, which were swept away by the wind and disappeared.

Meanwhile, the other mages in the branches who heard the commotion on the fourth floor and noticed the abnormality finally went up to the fourth floor.

Just as he was about to ask the minister what had happened, he saw Henia, wielding a lightning spear and exuding a terrifying aura.

"Henia?"

Everyone exclaimed in surprise, clearly finding it difficult to understand what had happened to Henia.

Henia's strange demeanor and powerful magic, coupled with the disappearance of Minister Terence, gave them all a bad feeling.

Henia had no desire to explain herself to this group of ordinary branch mages.

He gripped the lightning spear in his hand and slammed it down onto the fourth-floor floor!

boom!

A deafening roar, like thunder, echoed in all directions, but the stone floor was not destroyed; instead, it was completely covered by the scattered lightning.

The next instant, a huge lightning magic circle appeared on the fourth floor and continued to expand.

In an instant, it encompassed the entire branch building.

All the mages in the branch felt a sense of fear and trembling as if they were being locked onto by heavenly lightning.

"You can't be kidding me, can you? Magic of this level?!"

"No way, could this guy be going to...?"

In an instant, everyone who witnessed what Henia had done was thrown into chaos. They no longer cared about investigating the vanished minister, and everyone used all their strength to desperately escape the area covered by the magic circle.

However, the speed of lightning is far beyond what they can avoid.

In just a few breaths, all the lightning in the giant magic circle transformed into bolts of lightning, precisely locking onto and striking most of the ghost mages in the branch at that moment.

Only a small number of people who had not previously caused substantial harm to Henia, and a very small number of people who had not bullied Henia, escaped unharmed.

Those who bullied and harmed Henia, except for a few who died from their sins by lightning, mostly survived.

He was not a bloodthirsty person; for those whose crimes were less serious, he only needed to impose the necessary punishments.

After being bombarded by Henia's lightning, the original Ghost branch building could no longer withstand the pressure and collapsed.

The Phantom Lord branch building in the center of town suddenly collapsed, and the deafening thunder that preceded the collapse drew the attention of the residents of Barclay Town, as well as some of the mages who remained in the town, to the direction of the collapsed building.

Standing before the ruins of the branch building, feeling the awe and fear emanating from the surrounding gazes, Henia stood quietly bathed in sunlight.

Looking at the ruins before him, he thought of his dark and repressive first half of life.

Now, the shadows cast on his soul by his past experiences have been completely swept away with the collapse of the branch building.

Henia let out a long breath and felt an unprecedented sense of ease and freedom.

After the mental constraints were lifted, he seemed to feel that the activity level of his own magic had also increased to some extent.

"Then, it's time to leave..."

Henia was about to turn and leave when she unexpectedly sensed an extremely obscure and dark magical power emanating from beneath the ruins of the branch building.

This dark and twisted magical nature instantly reminded Henia of another person in his memory: Richie, the former branch manager of the Ghost Dominator Guild in Barclay Town!

"That old devil, did he leave something in the branch's underground?"

With a hint of doubt, Henia returned to the ruins and, after a careful search, successfully discovered a secret passage that Richie had once dug underground in the branch.

After lifting the huge stone slab covering the underground passage with one hand, the obscure and dark magic became even more intense. Henia even sensed a hint of dark magic within it.