The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

Chapter 611: A Curse on the Soul

The High Priest’s surrender wasn’t unexpected to Shien Buztout.

This necromancer might have some tricks, even creating something unheard of like the [Greater Spirit of Death], but in Shien’s eyes, she wasn’t a threat.

Throughout her life, she had always sought shortcuts.

For immortality, she didn’t diligently cultivate her strength to transcend the limits of life, nor did she seek legendary elixirs. Instead, she transformed herself into a grotesque undead creature.

To conquer the world, she didn’t develop her forces or conquer through strength. Instead, she transformed millions of lives into an undead army, using inhumane violence.

After witnessing Anima’s power and understanding the true influence of Transcendence, she still didn’t cultivate her own strength. Instead, she created the [Greater Spirit of Death] to bypass the limits of life and transfer her soul, an act no different from possession.

These were all shortcuts, none achieved through diligent effort.

That’s why, after thousands of years, this necromancer was only level ninety-two.

If it were anyone else, with thousands of years, they would be far beyond level ninety-two.

If it weren’t for the vast death energy she accumulated and her considerable undead army, she would be at the bottom of the Legendary level.

Such a person, always seeking shortcuts, even with some tricks, wouldn’t amount to much in Shien’s eyes.

So, her surrender and pleas weren’t surprising.

“Let me ask you,” Shien said, staring at the crystal ball in his hand, “What is this base for? It doesn’t seem like it’s just for imprisoning people, right?”

The High Priest immediately replied, “Yes, yes, yes! This base isn’t just a prison!”

“Then what is it for?” Shien narrowed his eyes, “Why are you gathering so many people here? What are you digging for?”

“This…” The High Priest hesitated.

Shien subtly raised his Holy Sword.

“I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you!” The High Priest hurriedly said, “We’re digging for a treasure buried beneath this land!”

Hearing this, Shien knew that the legend Capeline told him was true.

Unexpectedly, these people were really after that legendary treasure.

“A treasure related to the Supreme God and the Demon King… huh?” Shien pondered for a moment, then continued, “What kind of treasure is it? What do you plan to do with it?”

Upon hearing this, a strange change occurred in the High Priest.

“We… we…”

Her voice trembled, as if struggling and hesitating.

“Don’t want to talk anymore?” Shien raised an eyebrow, “It seems your secret is quite big.”

Shien thought that this necromancer didn’t dare to speak because the matter was too important.

“Speak.” Shien tightened his grip on the crystal ball, as if trying to crush it, “What are you trying to do? And what’s your relationship with that Imperial Consort Mara?”

These were important pieces of information that Shien urgently wanted to know.

As long as the High Priest answered, then his trip here would be worthwhile.

Even if he didn’t encounter Mara, he had destroyed this base, rescued Harvis’s sister, eliminated Limgir, and captured this necromancer, learning about Mara’s secrets here. This trip wasn’t in vain.

Therefore, seeing the High Priest struggling and hesitating, Shien was already thinking about whether to make her suffer a bit.

Unexpectedly…

“I… I…!”

The High Priest’s voice, besides struggling and hesitating, now carried a hint of pain.

“Hmm?” Shien finally sensed something was wrong, “What are you playing at?”

The High Priest didn’t answer.

The green light attached to the crystal ball fluctuated and trembled violently.

“I… aaaaaah…! Aaaaaaaaaaah…!”

The High Priest’s voice gradually turned into a scream.

Seeing this, Shien’s expression changed.

At this moment, the High Priest’s scream, filled with pain and hatred, echoed from the crystal ball.

“This… this is a curse on the soul…!? That damned venomous Consort…!”

As this painful scream echoed, something unexpected happened.

“Bang!”

The green light attached to the crystal ball exploded after a violent fluctuation and tremor, turning into countless specks of light that dissipated into the air.

The High Priest’s voice abruptly stopped.

The crystal ball returned to normal.

All movement ceased.

Shien watched all of this, his face gradually darkening.

“Bang!”

In the next second, Shien crushed the crystal ball in his hand.

A large amount of death energy erupted from the shattered crystal ball, mixed with the snake-like ghastly green light.

That was the death energy the High Priest had collected for thousands of years and the [Soul Essence] she painstakingly refined.

“Slash!”

With a flash of golden sword light, all the erupting death energy and [Soul Essence] were cut down by the Holy Sword and quickly purified and dispersed by the golden light.

With this, everything the High Priest left behind in this world vanished.

Shien stood amidst the ruins, holding his sword, his mood very unpleasant.

He could see what had happened.

“That venomous Consort, did she already make arrangements on the High Priest?”

Shien finally couldn’t help but call Mara the venomous Consort.

There was no helping it.

“As expected of a villain, she loves to silence people and prevent betrayals.”

Shien clicked his tongue, throwing away the remaining fragments of the crystal ball, letting them scatter on the ground.

He knew that Mara might already know that he had destroyed this base and eliminated the High Priest and the others.

Since that curse on the soul had been activated, Shien didn’t believe that Mara wouldn’t sense anything.

“Good.”

Shien’s expression softened.

“Now that I know what you’re planning here, I’m not afraid you won’t come back.”

Before, Shien had been worried that if his identity was exposed and Mara learned of his arrival, she might flee.

Now it seemed that she had big plans in the Empire, aiming for the treasure related to the Supreme God and the Demon King, and she definitely wouldn’t be willing to leave.

Not only would she not leave, but knowing that this place had been destroyed by Shien, and the Raifurut family had also been annihilated, Mara would definitely return.

At that time, her true motives would be clear.

Thinking of this, Shien stopped dwelling on the High Priest and looked around, his gaze turning towards the stone wall space.

There, many knights, servants, and slaves were running out, trembling with fear.

Shien teleported away.

“Roar!”

Yulin also seemed to receive some instructions, roaring and soaring into the sky, disappearing into the clouds.

Only a scene of devastation remained.

The people who came out of the base saw this and were stunned and terrified.

“My god!”

“What… what happened here!?”

“Where’s Young Master Limgir?”

“Where’s the High Priest?”

“So… so many meteorite craters, so many corpses, so scary…!”

“Oh god…”

The knights, slaves, and servants were all dumbfounded, trembling.

After a long time, some of them looked at each other, seemingly having an idea, and quietly left.

Of course, they weren’t returning to the base, but fleeing.

Seeing this, the others also reacted.

“Quick… run!”

“Let’s take this opportunity to escape from here…!”

“I… I finally have a chance to escape this hell…!”

“I don’t want to stay here anymore, I don’t want to stay here anymore…!”

Everyone, as if seeing hope, shouted and fled desperately.

Including the slaves and servants.

They were all brought here and treated as laborers without any rights, digging underground for Mara and the High Priest.

Even the knights were the same. Those with some ability were used as patrolling guards and supervisors, while those without were treated as slaves and servants, with no rights at all.

Coupled with the High Priest’s reign of terror, casually killing those who displeased her, even feeding them to the dracolich, the people here had long regarded this place as hell.

Now, finally having a chance to escape, they naturally fled desperately.

However, some couldn’t escape.

For example, some knights, in order to survive and gain power, had already sold themselves to the High Priest, transformed into half-human, half-corpse living dead by her necromancy, becoming her most favored lapdogs.

Now, with the High Priest dead, these living dead also collapsed, never to rise again.

Just like that, this unknown secret base was completely deserted.

Shien searched the area, but found nothing.

However, in a stone warehouse, he found a lot of gold, silver, treasures, and magic tools collected by the High Priest.

“Well, better than nothing.”

Shien took these things and returned to the Imperial Capital.

Leaving behind only the ruins, devoid of any life.