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A group of demon priests looked at each other, then shook their heads with pale faces, pointing in one direction and saying, "No, no, no, it's not us, great demon lord...that's a sacrifice for you!"

"Oh...?"

Shen Yuan turned his head and looked behind him.

A human girl was sobbing.

She lay in a pool of blood, a bright crimson stain flowing across the pristine white stone. Those about to kill her performed a ritual around her, shrouded in shadows. Guilt and fear flickered in the villagers' eyes, as if they had chosen to sacrifice her, obeying the demonic priests' threats and summoning the blood moon's demon.

"Another soul, a solace to endless hunger. They struggle, so in vain."

Shen Yuan met its eyes, and the girl's bloodstained face looked back at him like a reflection in a mirror.

She lay on her side, her breathing shallow and growing weaker.

The girl's lifeless hands were cold, but she felt nothing. A deathly stillness enveloped her like a shroud, without pain, fear, or despair. Perhaps nothing existed anymore.

After what seemed like pain, betrayal, and despair, she felt peace again.

However, a voice that shouldn't have appeared was heard.

"Hello, girl."

She heard an evil, malicious laugh, and then the sound of chains swinging.

"I don't understand why you are so stubborn and unwilling to die. But I feel your pain."

Thresh's fear and oppression came like a wave, as if reminding the girl that the time had come.

The monster seemed to want to drag the girl into the abyss of death.

The people around looked at this scene and lowered their heads in fear. They did not dare to fight against the blood moon demon or even the girl. Instead, the demon priests were excitedly looking forward to something.

However, at this moment, the pitch-black sky was cracked. Turbulence surged in the atmosphere, and the dark clouds flickered in the light of lightning.

When Thresh (Shen Yuan)'s power emerged, black fog swirled everywhere.

"My family..." The girl exhaled weakly, as if she resented everyone around her, but then her breath dissipated like ashes in the wind.

She is dead.

Thresh (Shen Yuan) gestured, summoning his lantern. He let it swiftly approach, hovering near the girl's face. In the lantern's flickering, deadly light, he saw the girl's tortured soul—torture, pain, death, and despair were the source of the Chain Warden's power. There was nothing wrong with tasting their suffering.

But Shen Yuan is not the old pervert Thresh himself, so he still sighs.

He will free the souls of the girl and her family who are trapped in this eternal state of limbo, allowing them to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.

"You will have to make up for what you lost."

Shen Yuan raised his ghostly hook and pointed it at the demon priest and the villagers behind them. His action and words made everyone behind him look horrified and terrified, and they fled with pale faces.

"Now, I come to collect souls..."

On the night of the blood moon, in the crimson glow of the village altar, the Soul Chain Warden (Shen Yuan)'s withered, pale silver hair and skin were shrouded by his cloak. The lantern in his hand faintly illuminated the demonic features that still remained in him. He looked desolate and emotionless, yet he carried an aura of sadistic fanaticism.

Like the other demons, he floated up slowly, and groans of pain came from within his rustling blood-red robes.

"mortal."

Thresh (Shen Yuan) raised his head half an inch and grinned sinisterly with anticipation.

“Don’t be afraid of the end, embrace it.”

Without any delay, he raised the ghostly hook sickle, swung it half a circle in his hand, and then shot towards the direction of the demon priest!

His "Death Sentence (Q)" carries a destructive aura, like red lightning. As blood splatters, souls are hooked out one after another. The throats of the imprisoned dead are entangled with chains and violently dragged into the "Soul Guiding Lantern (W)".

"The devil... has gone crazy!!"

"Run away!!"

"Tsk. Isn't this why you summoned me?"

Shen Yuan stood in the darkness, mocking them, his eyes burning with cold fire. The cursed lantern lay on the rubble nearby, emitting rays of deadly light, and captured souls writhed within.

The demon of the blood moon.

Soullock Warden, Thresh.

What do they think the "devil" is?

The moment the "Pendulum of Doom (E)" was swung out, the entire village fell into silence. Countless flashing scarlet lights were flying towards the "lantern" continuously, like a sky full of fireflies, turning the sky blood red.

A demon summoned during a blood moon, Thresh's lantern holds thousands of vengeful spirits, fueling his insatiable desire to torment the dead.

Entire villages were massacred overnight, and the remaining blood may take decades to wash away.

This tragedy was discovered shortly afterwards.

For this reason, the gods sent a savior goddess and a brave man to save the world. The beginning of the story begins here.

.....

[System: The number of layers of "Hell Curse (Passive)" increases by 1093!]

Curse of Hell (Passive): Thresh reaps the souls of enemies who die around him, granting him 1 armor and 1 spell power, and increasing the shield strength of Soul Lantern and the minimum bonus magic damage of Doom Pendulum by 1.

"This passive skill can finally make up for my lack of 'defense'."

Shen Yuan looked at the extremely powerful late-game skill "Hell's Curse" with delight. Just like "Supernatural Evil Power" and "Soul-Draining Strike", the armor value increased by Hell's Curse can give him an invincible damage reduction ability. Except for true damage and magic damage, even standing still and taking a beating could not break his defense.

What's more, there is the shield value of the Soul Guiding Lantern and the increased magic damage of other skills.

"But, speaking of which, this simulation has three phased quests. Does that mean I need to use three different skins to clear three worlds of varying difficulty levels to complete the quest?"

Shen Yuan looked at the current world difficulty which was B level.

He thought about it.

"If I only considered the world difficulty, I could definitely crush this world. But since this is a 'Novice Village' tutorial mission, it's better to be safe."

Shen Yuan looked back at the blood-stained village. He raised the Soul-Guiding Lamp in his hand. Thousands of souls inside were looking at him in horror.

Not long ago, these thousands of souls were all prominent people, but now they can only look in fear at the blood moon demon that imprisoned and killed them in the lanterns.

"In that case, let the Soul-Eating Night come."

Black fog swirled around Shen Yuan, filled with hatred, anger and fear, but he was unperturbed and remained himself.

The thick green fog had a terrifying power very similar to the Shadow Island Ruined Curse of the [King of Ruined]. After summoning this black fog, Shen Yuan allowed it to expand and search wantonly.

Wherever the black fog reaches, the souls of the dead can reach it.

This is also their cage where they never see the light of day.

"The evil spirit is out of the cage."

Shen Yuan was like a burning lamp in the darkness, holding the lamp and leading 'them' forward step by step.

Wherever he passed, the black fog spread, causing the trees in the forest to die and the remaining branches to shrive and crack.

The remnants of fallen leaves that once remembered the gentle breeze now howl with the cold wind in the dead forest.

The surroundings illuminated by the Soul-Guiding Lamp revealed a large group of shadowy evil spirits, not only the villagers here, but also evil spirits from other worlds.

Ghosts on steeds galloped as the black fog expanded outwards, their movements swift, weaving through the woods and heading towards the sun in the east that no longer shone.

Their movements were in unison, like a hunting party... but in reality, they were just pets.

They were just "prisoners" released by the Soul Chain Warden, Thresh, to test the waters. As long as the Soul Guiding Lamp was slightly moved, those ghosts would be instantly taken back like a backflowing tide.

"Go, hunt."

Shen Yuan gave the order.

"Roar!"

A voice responded to him.

But it was not just one voice, but hundreds or thousands of voices overlapping and reverberating, an army of souls speaking in unison.

The leading cavalryman galloped away like a mixture of evil spirits and twisted metal—the unholy ghost of his once-proud Knight of the Iron Order. To him, it was but a glory in life, now a Dual Knight serving its Lord Thresh.

A black lance, its tip serrated and barbed, rested in the knight's mail gauntlet. Two massive curved horns jutted from his helmet. He jerked his mount sideways, and the ghostly steed reared and neighed. Its hooves, shrouded in shadow, seemed barely to touch the ground as it charged forward.

"Devour them!!"

The evil spirit army attacked human settlements, and Shen Yuan had no idea what kind of force that was.

But it looked like the 'kingdom army' from this other world. The Ghost Riders easily broke up their formation. The soldiers wearing silver helmets and steel armor screamed in fear. An evil soul spear emitting green light pierced his body.

When that person reached the bottom, his soul was resurrected at the same place and fell into the black fog, turning into a vengeful spirit that followed the darkness and became one of them.

Then the hunt ended. Shen Yuan, the Soul Chain Jailer, hid among his "prisoner" servants and slowly approached the last surviving noble in front of him like a terrifying demon king.

The evil ghosts surrounded him, and the noble-looking man was scared to death. Although he wanted to faint, he woke up because of his extreme fear of death.

"Master Demon! No, don't kill me!"

"I am the Duke of the great country of Taman. I am willing to be your most loyal servant. Please give me the chance to be your dog! I am willing to betray humanity and join your demon army!"

"Do not--"

Thresh (Shen Yuan) mercilessly mocked and rejected him: "You have the wrong person. I am the Undead King, not the King of the Demons. To be loyal to me is to sacrifice your soul. When I speak to you, everything is over!"

As the tyrannical and cunning Thresh, ambitious and tireless, how could he let anyone die easily?

Thresh uses his own unique method of excruciating pain to slowly torture and defeat others as a means of survival.

Those he persecutes endure pain far beyond death, for Thresh will inflict excruciating pain on their souls, trapping them within his lantern to torment them for eternity.

This twisted undead's existence is the agent of pain, torture and death.

——A living villain boss.

The kind that can never be whitewashed.

It can even be said to be a psychologically twisted pervert.

Of course, what does Thresh’s madness have to do with him, Shen Yuan?

As a summoner, Shen Yuan is just imitating Thresh's way of spreading chaos. After all, his mission is only to distort the world. It's okay to torture those with evil souls, but to torture innocent good people is purely a psychopath.

(PS: This volume consists of three small worlds. The current world is the world where the hero and goddess first appeared in the original work. The skin is Blood Moon Thresh).

Chapter 325: The Miserable Demon King! The Terror of the Great Demon King Thresh!

Therefore, even if Shen Yuan stood on the side of the villain and killed those ordinary people who resisted him, he was too lazy to torture them.

It is even possible that they will mercifully release their souls and allow them to be reborn.

However, for a duke like this who sacrificed most for his own sake, Shen Yuan would not kill him immediately. Instead, he would wait until his value completely disappeared before letting him taste the torture of hell.

By then, I will be able to feel at peace with myself.

...

[Location: Unified Divine Realm]

【Event: Gods’ Meeting】

The Council of Gods - This is a meeting where the gods decide which goddess will summon a hero to save the world.

However, this meeting seemed to be an ordinary [B-level].

Therefore, the atmosphere of the meeting was much more relaxed than expected. There was no tension at all. The gods talked harmoniously and looked relaxed and contented.

Soon, the meeting produced results.

"Well then—! This time, the goddess in charge of saving the B-rank world difficulty [Exfolia] is—Ariadoa! I'll leave it to you!"

Following the host's enthusiastic shouts, a beautiful red-haired goddess appeared in the center of the venue, calmly accepting the gods' thunderous applause.

—Aliadoa.

The Sealing Goddess who unified the divine world, a superior goddess with the ability to seal, and has the title of veteran goddess who has saved more than 300 worlds.

She is also an idol in the eyes of many new goddesses.

During her years as a goddess, she had encountered many difficult situations. Although most of them were low-level worlds such as D and C levels, Ariadoa had also saved several A-level worlds.

This time, asking her to save the B-level world is a piece of cake.

At least that's what everyone thought, including Ariadoya herself, who felt that this mission was like a vacation.

"Eh? Only B-rank difficulty? I thought it was finally the S-rank world's turn. Yeah, alright. Since it was decided at the meeting, it's an established fact that can't be denied."