Chapter 6

Ruiz struggled desperately, but was firmly held by the guards around him, unable to move.

The black guillotine was lowered in the middle of the square, and Ruiz was pushed in front of it.

He was terrified, looked at Dempsey on the side, and begged: "Master Dempsey, you have arrested the wrong person! I was just sick, and now I am cured. I really haven't fallen. Let me go."

Dempsey was unmoved, but watched Ruiz calmly as he was pushed onto the guillotine, with his neck stuck in the depression in the middle of the platform, exposing his neck.

"Goddess, I can prove my innocence, let me go..."

Ruiz hissed in fear, with tears and snot running down his face.

He turned to the onlookers and called out the names of a few familiar friends and neighbors, hoping that they could intercede for him, but he only saw indifferent faces, and no one made a sound.

In desperation, Ruiz looked at Dempsey again, his eyes were full of hatred, "I was just sick, and I was going to recover soon, but you caught me here, you said you were going to judge me, and you claimed to be Believers of the God of Justice, does this count as justice?"

"My family relies on me to support the family. If I die, who will support my wife and three children?"

"Do you want to watch them starve to death? Bah!"

"Why are you treating me like this!"

At this point, Ruiz's eyes were bleeding, mixed with tears, looking horrific. He started cursing Dempsey crazily, cursing the church, and finally even the onlookers hated him, cursing everyone to die.

In Nuoda’s square, only Ruiz’s voice echoed.

Ren in the crowd watched all this with complicated emotions.

However, no one on the scene dared to speak out for Ruiz. This was not indifference, let alone resignation, but getting used to this kind of thing.

Judging from Ruiz's state, anyone with a little knowledge knows that his curse has broken out and he has fallen.

This curse is called the "Blood Soul Curse", which exists in the soul of every human being in this world, and it is an eternal nightmare in everyone's heart!

According to the rumors, as early as thousands of years ago—some historians have verified that it was about four thousand years ago, and the exact year cannot be determined—it can only be confirmed that it was at the end of the last era. The ancient evil god of the abyss, the whole family has been cursed until today.

The name of this terrifying evil god is "Uxorn". He comes from the abyss and has existed for an unknown number of years.

Uxorn has countless names in the long civilization. Many races in history called him "the demon of all demons", "the whisperer", "the source of fear", "the ruler of the abyss", "the thousand demons" Maw Demon", "Indescribable God" and so on, while humans usually call him "Lord of Darkness"!

The Lord of Darkness is the head of the four evil gods of the abyss, and the curse he cast down cannot be undone at all.

The blood soul curse usually lurks in the human soul, which seems normal.

However, when people are in a weak state, or when they encounter setbacks and lose control of their emotions, the curse will take the opportunity to make people hear an evil raving.

This terrible sound seemed to come from the abyss, gradually making people crazy and losing their minds.

That's why the blood soul curse is also called "the whisper of the Lord of Darkness". Anyone who is lured to fall by this raving can no longer be called a "person", but a "fallen person".

Their souls are polluted by the "evil energy" from the abyss. Even if they are killed, their souls will fall into the abyss and become the slaves and minions of evil gods, and they will never be redeemed.

When the blood soul curse occurs, it will draw out the greatest malice in people's hearts and do the craziest and most terrifying things.

In order to avoid further damage, there is no choice but to kill the fallen.

Thousands of years ago, human beings were born with powerful strength and long lifespan, not much worse than elves and dwarves, and lived in remote areas in the form of settlements. But after being cursed, human beings began to kill each other. In just a hundred years, the population plummeted to only one-tenth of the original!

The most frightening thing is that the curse of blood soul will be passed on to the next generation through blood.

Every baby is cursed when it is born. Babies are weak-willed and can easily become degenerates. Even if they are lucky enough to grow up, their bodies are also very weak.

Such a continuation of the curse from generation to generation, after a few generations, the lifespan of human beings is greatly shortened, and very few people can live past the age of seventy.

Moreover, human beings also lost their powerful talents, their bodies degenerated rapidly, and their sensitivity to various supernatural forces became dull. No matter how hard they tried, they could not compare with other races, and no top powerhouses appeared.

From the end of the last epoch to the beginning of the new epoch, during the millennium-long dark period, human beings were almost on the verge of extinction.

In the dark age, human beings tried various methods to fight against the blood soul curse.

Finally, someone discovered that eating a herb called "Soul Eater Grass" could fight the curse of blood soul and reduce the chance of the curse happening.

The Soul Eater Grass itself is a highly poisonous plant, the toxin directly acts on the soul, and only a very small amount of consumption will not cause death, but it is also very painful, comparable to torture. Although the Soul Eater Grass couldn't lift the curse of the blood soul, it didn't let the human body continue to degenerate, and then lead to the genocide.

After thousands of years of confrontation and struggle, human beings finally survived.

After that, human beings got a blessing in disguise.

The soul torment that has lasted for nearly a thousand years has given human beings a talent to fuse other souls, and obtain the special abilities of various beasts, strange monsters, monsters, insects and even demons.

All life in the world, as long as it has a soul, can be used by human beings and cultivated to grow stronger.

By combining souls and combining different abilities, humans have developed dozens of extraordinary professions.

About 3,000 years ago, the world's first extraordinary person, a "wizard" who cast spells with the power of the soul, was born in the world; and more than 200 years later, a group of sun knights who believed in the sun god "Geon" lived in "Black-A The "Continent of Fidland" established the first human country "Kingdom of Ramon"!

As a result, the world of Arrenus has ushered in a new era for human beings, and it has been 2528 years.

Even so, no matter how brilliant civilizations humans have created, how many powerful enemies they have defeated, and how rich territories they have ruled, the curse of blood soul is still not lifted, and it is as inescapable as a gangrene.

No matter which country, which city, or which settlement in human beings, there are people who attack due to the curse every day and become crazy degenerates, causing countless tragedies.

The curse of blood soul will always be a lingering nightmare in people's hearts!

Ren remembered the nightmare he had when he was in a coma, and couldn't help but feel very scared.

At that time, he was in the weakest state. If he hadn't been protected by his mobile phone, he would have gone crazy now.

But Ruiz in front of him was not so lucky. He said that he was just sick and he was cured, but no one would believe it.

Weak patients are the group most prone to curse attacks. Almost half of the fallen are sick, and 60% of the other half are elderly. Because the elderly are poor in physique and weak in will, they are easily cursed to take advantage of them.

Therefore, there are very few old people in human beings, because they all don't live to be seventy years old, and they fell before that.

"Your wife and children are dead."

Dempsey spoke suddenly, and his voice spread throughout the square for everyone to hear.

Ruiz's scolding stopped abruptly, and Dempsey continued: "You killed your wife with your own hands last night, and you strangled the other three children, remember?"

"I didn't, I..." Ruiz retorted subconsciously, and then seemed to remember something terrible, with remorse and pain on his face.

Gradually, his expression became distorted, his eyes were filled with a strange blackness, and a shuddering aura emanated.

"Hahaha……"

A burst of crazy laughter came from Ruiz's mouth. The sound was very uncomfortable to hear, and I felt dizzy and dizzy.

"Shut up! Devil!"

Dempsey's voice rang in people's ears, and there was a strange power in the voice, which lifted people's minds and immediately returned to normal.

Ruiz on the guillotine desperately opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound, like a drowning person.

Faint black air suddenly emerged from his body, his limbs twisted and swelled abnormally, and his flesh and bones seemed to be knotted into a horrible mud, trying to break free.

A series of strange characters appeared on the silver chain, which bound Ruiz firmly, like an invisible cage, and even the black energy on his body was also locked, unable to escape.

People looked at this scene in fear, and involuntarily took a few steps back.

It was the first time Ren saw the fallen man go crazy. He wanted to see it more clearly, so he turned on the camera with a thought.

As soon as the scene in the field of vision changes, everything is clearly visible.

Ryan was taken aback. He found that he could see more things, far more than super vision.

In his eyes, the heads of everyone around him became illusory, and he could see through their skulls and flesh, to the inside, where there was a hazy light.

Ren subconsciously guessed: "Is this the human soul?"

His eyes scanned the crowd, and then he was very sure that his guess was right, secretly said: "I can actually see the soul directly!"

After a closer look, Ren found that everyone's soul was different.

The most obvious difference is the color of the soul, red, white, yellow, green, blue, all kinds of colors are available, and they are changing all the time, as if they are changing with people's emotions.

Secondly, the size of the soul is also different. A large soul feels stronger to Ren; conversely, a small soul feels weak.

This can be distinguished by the holy sword servants on the square.

The soul of each holy sword attendant is much stronger than the souls of the onlookers, at least half the size, and more solid. Most of the townspeople's souls are weak, and some of them have even been damaged, flickering like candles in the wind, and seem to be extinguished at any time.

Finally, Renn looked at Dempsey in the square and was stunned.

Dempsey's soul is too powerful. Even compared with him, the servant of the holy sword is several levels behind in terms of size and texture.

Not to mention ordinary people, the gap between them and Dempsey is like a firefly and a bright moon.

Dempsey's soul was like a ball of white light, and Ren felt a firm will and a lake-like calm.

In addition, Dempsey's soul has an internal structure, like an onion wrapping one layer after another. From the outside to the inside, there are five layers in total. The deeper the interior, the stronger the texture, and the power of the soul surges in it.

Deep in the core of the innermost layer of soul, Ren saw three strange abstract patterns.

These three patterns are different, two big and one small, and have their own morphological characteristics, like different souls, and then the three souls are fused together.

"This should be the element in the soul, and each element represents an ability."

Ren felt something in his heart and was also very pleasantly surprised.

He is very clear about what it means to be able to directly see the soul, especially for humans who gain power by fusing souls, there is no stronger ability than this.

Then, Ren looked at Ruiz on the guillotine.

Ruiz's soul is also different. The whole soul is pitch black, like smoke, almost spreading from his head, and even the naked eyes can see the black air on his body.

The black soul is constantly expanding, twisting, wriggling, and tangled tentacles emerge outward, like living things. In the center of the soul, there is a pair of scarlet eyes looming, moving rapidly like twitching.

Ren just glanced at Ruiz's soul, and felt a surge of madness and evil, and almost lost his mind.

"The soul of the fallen is really scary enough, just looking at it is dangerous."

At this time, under the gaze of the people, Dempsey stepped forward and drew out the sword in his hand. The silver blade was shining with cold light, and characters were engraved on both sides of the wide blade. His lips moved, as if chanting a spell, which made the characters on the sword brighter.

"In the name of Tyrael, I, Demps Bill, sentence you to death. May your soul escape from the abyss, redeem yourself, and return to the kingdom of God."

Dempsey read the sentence aloud, then raised the silver sword above his head.

Ren wanted to turn his head away from the bloody scene. For him who lived in a peaceful society in his previous life, the impact of watching the beheading up close was still too great.

However, he found that everyone around him was staring at the guillotine intently. No matter adults or teenagers, women or children, they looked impatient and had some fanaticism in their eyes, as if they were enjoying a wonderful drama.

Their soul color also slowly turns red, which indicates emotional agitation.

Ryan couldn't help but suddenly realized that it turned out that watching others be beheaded was a daily entertainment for people in this world.

If you turn your head and don't look at it, it will look too different.

Ren could only watch with his eyes wide open, and with a flash of silver light, Dempsey's sword slashed down at a speed that was hard for the naked eye to reach.

Ruiz's head fell to the ground, and blood spattered out, dyeing the black guillotine with the latest red. The headless corpse was still writhing, and finally stopped after a few hours, returning to a mass of bloody corpses, and the frightening aura quickly dissipated.

The crowd of onlookers let out a sigh of satisfaction, then shook their heads silently, and slowly dispersed.

Ren stood there, motionless as if frightened by the beheading scene.

He was indeed a little frightened. A living person had his head cut off right in front of his eyes. The impact of this scene made him feel a little sick and also a little novel.

However, what shocked Rennes the most was that after Ruiz was beheaded, he "saw" a black light flying out of the head on the ground, which should be Ruiz's soul.

It was just floating upwards, but suddenly turned, and flew towards him like a moth to a flame.

Before he could react, maybe in the blink of an eye, this ball of black light came in from his eyes, and then disappeared.

Ren froze all over and was almost scared to death.

Ruiz is a fallen person. His soul is polluted by evil energy. It is by no means a good thing. It stands to reason that he should fall into the abyss and become a servant of the evil god of the abyss. Now he has got into his head. What will happen? ?

What if someone finds out?

That Holy Swordsman Dempsey is still here!

Ren was frightened for a long time, but he didn't dare to take any action, for fear that Dempsey would notice something strange and cut him with a sword.

Fortunately, Dempsey obviously couldn't see the soul, so he ordered the guards to burn the body, then put away the bloodless silver sword and returned to the church.

It wasn't until most of the crowd dispersed that Ren breathed a sigh of relief and found that his back was wet with cold sweat.

He hurriedly checked his body and immediately found an abnormality.

On the illusory interface, the battery of the mobile phone has skyrocketed by eight bars, reaching a total of 16%. At the same time, there seems to be a power in the body, which makes me have unlimited energy, and my whole body is itchy and swollen. I wish I could find a place to vent this power immediately.

Ren was surprised and delighted, and probably guessed what was going on: "Am I able to absorb other people's soul charge?"