The blond girl huddled at the bottom of the icy pool, wrapped by countless hatred and malice, still had that kind heart she had never abandoned!
"Alice!"
Ryan let out a loud shout and call, stretching out his hand vigorously towards the girl.
At the bottom of the icy pool, in the midst of the chaotic hatred.
The girl raised her head in a daze.
"I'm your doctor!"
"If you trust me."
Ryan's eyes were full of ferocity. He kept diving down in the ocean of consciousness, constantly reaching out his hand towards the girl.
And behind him were the surging black vines, the ferocious hatred from that fierce ghost, and the sharp, terrifying long howls.
"Then let me!"
Finally.
At the last moment, Ryan managed to stretch out his hand towards the girl with great difficulty.
In her eyes was reflected that face, and the glimmer of kindness hidden deep in those ferocious eyes.
It was just like once upon a time.
Those lost family members...
What she had hoped for...
The friendly and gentle hand reaching out to her again...
"Let me! Heal your wounds!"
Buzz—
The vast darkness and hatred were like a surging blood spring, instantly sweeping over his whole body. Dense black capillaries instantly covered his cheeks.
His right hand that had stabbed into the fierce ghost's body broke off instantly, and his body was thrown far away like a broken kite.
The pitch-black blood tainted by hatred splashed across the sky.
His body landed heavily on the ground dozens of meters away, leaving a long, blood-red trail.
[Ding! Your health points are rapidly decreasing!]
[Ding! Your body has been eroded by a large amount of ghostly energy!]
[Ding! The current progress of ghostly energy erosion is 67%!]
[Ding! The current progress of ghostly energy erosion is 75%!]
[Warning! Warning! Warning!]
But Ryan didn't care at all. He raised his head, and a wild smile instantly appeared on his face. He suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed a broken spear out of thin air from the system space.
Then, without any hesitation, he picked up the broken spear and stabbed it into his right leg forcefully.
The ghostly energy surging wildly inside his body suddenly triggered the power within the broken spear.
The dazzling sacred light instantly rushed through his flesh and blood and spread all over his body.
[Ding! Health points lost!]
[Ding! Due to the interference of sacred power, the current progress of ghostly energy erosion in your body is: 89%!]
[Ding! Due to the interference of sacred power, the current progress of ghostly energy erosion in your body has decreased to: 79%!]
[Ding! Ghostly energy has decreased to 68%!]
Ryan instantly raised his head, looking at the fierce ghost shrieking and rushing towards him. He didn't dodge or avoid it because he knew...
"You've lost!"
A wild and delighted smile suddenly appeared on his face.
Buzz—
Almost at the moment when the ferocious blood hand was about to stab into Ryan's tightly closed eyes, the blood hand suddenly stopped.
Her sharp and blood-red nails began to tremble, and a huge sense of uneasiness and fear suddenly emerged on her ferocious face.
She found that she couldn't move forward any further.
She found that the endless hatred and malice driven by her were actually going against her at this moment.
"Mom... It's you who did it..."
A girl's crying voice suddenly rang out from her body.
The fierce ghost backed away palely, looking at her own hands in fear and said,
"No! No! Alice! No!"
It was an extremely sad wail coming from the depths of her body.
In the icy pool of consciousness.
At the moment when her hand reached out to Ryan.
She saw everything that Ryan had seen in "Remnants of the Past", and all of those were also the truths that Ryan wanted to tell her.
Pain.
Grief.
Despair.
Hatred!
She saw the whole process of her biological mother casting spells on her family, heard her soft whispers in their minds, and saw the pain they endured before and after the change under the false appearance.
She saw them being gently bewitched, saw the curse spreading on them, and saw the past tenderness gradually turning into painful coldness and madness.
It was like a hand manipulating puppets.
It was like thick haze shrouding the sky over the entire ancient castle.
"Ah!!!"
A shrill and bone-piercing long howl.
Tick— Tick—
From the lifeless eyes of Alice's corpse, drops that were either blood or tears fell.
In an instant, the surging hatred pierced through the dome of the ancient castle and rushed towards the sky shrouded in black fog, madly churning the black fog all over the sky.
The expressions on the faces of Bloodsaw and Lady Doll, who were waiting outside the castle, instantly changed drastically.
They also immediately felt the almost sky-breaking hatred and resentment sweeping over.
That coldness even made their hearts tremble.
"That's..."
Lady Doll looked solemnly at the black clouds covering the entire sky above the ancient castle and said, "It's hatred. I've never seen a creature that could generate such a large amount of hatred..."
"If it's a fierce ghost... The power derived from this amount of hatred... I'm afraid it will surpass you and me..."
Bloodsaw's eyes flickered, and he stared fixedly at the burning ancient castle.
Lady Doll turned her head and glanced at him, saying,
"Should we interfere?"
Bloodsaw said in a deep voice, "No need."
Lady Doll was a bit surprised, and the corner of her mouth curled up slightly as she said,
"Aren't you always very fond of your apprentice?"
Bloodsaw said deeply, "He had the chance to ask me for help. After that incident, I gave him the way to contact me, but he didn't."
"Either he's already dead, or he believes that even without relying on his teacher, he has the ability to complete this task on his own!"
Bloodsaw closed his eyes, and his hands had already clenched tightly without him realizing it.
"And if he really contacted me, I would look down on him instead."
...
In the deepest part of the ancient castle.
The fierce ghost was shrieking wildly. The flames surging around her were constantly extinguished and suppressed by the hatred emanating from her body.
One bulge after another constantly appeared on the body of the evil spirit, as if something was crying and trying to break out of her body.
She tore at her own cheeks painfully, leaving one bloody mark after another on her face.
"Alice! Alice! I'm your mother! I'm your biological mother!"
"Don't be bewitched by that human! Things... Things are not what you think..."
"It's them! It's them!! They are a group of devils in human skins! They deserve to die!! How dare they make you forget your biological mother!! Daughter! Daughter!"
"Daughter!!"
Ryan struggled to pull out the spear and leaned on it to stand up with great effort, staring fixedly at the fierce ghost.
"You're just jealous and full of hatred. You just want revenge. You're not qualified to be her mother at all."