Chapter 14: Commission Complete
The dead spirits knew this man.
He liked beer, loved his family, and tended to run away from problems...
A typical American husband and father.
But right now, this man had completely changed.
Connecting this to the fact that he had been so close to the priest yesterday, the answer was obvious.
That priest actua...
2025-11-28 16:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: The Further
As she walked downstairs, Elise recalled a piece of news she had heard over the last couple of days.
A sacrificial incident had recently occurred in Philadelphia, involving over a hundred people.
But the plotters ultimately failed. It was said that someone with a Church background had stepped in and resolved it.
Could it be...
... 2025-11-28 16:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12: The Psychic Medium
Josh's attitude was sincere.
After last night, he finally understood that everything his wife had said was true.
For so long, these dead spirits had not only been haunting their family but hurting Dalton as well.
Yet he had chosen not to believe her, using overtime as an excuse to avoid coming home, leaving his wife to bear...
2025-11-28 16:31:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11: A Restless Night
This remark sounded a bit strange, like he was questioning him... "Why don't you dare go inside?"
Josh realized his slip of the tongue immediately.
So he added a warning: "Don't take a single step into my house."
Then he turned and went back inside.
Dustin stared at Josh's back and suddenly spoke up. "If I cut ties with...
2025-11-28 16:31:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10: Preparations Before the Exorcism
William took his travel bag out of the car.
When he looked up again, the shadows he had seen earlier had vanished.
He narrowed his eyes, guessing they had gone into hiding.
He hadn't expected these dead spirits to roam so freely in broad daylight.
Was there no justice left in this world?
Going into...
2025-11-28 16:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9: A New Commission
The voice made William dizzy.
But by now, he had finished chanting the exorcism scripture.
[Scripture Reading +1]
[Current Progress: Tier 1 (0/100)]
[Unlocked Ability: Focus. You have a profound understanding of the sacred texts. When evil forces attempt to inflict mental influen...
2025-11-28 16:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8: The Sacrificial Ritual
"Hehe, thanks for all your hard work over the years."
Johnny twisted the dagger in his hand.
"For the glory of the Descent, please die."
Gail felt her strength drain away.
She slowly looked down.
An inverted black crucifix was embedded in her left side, just below the ribs.
It radiated a palpable aura o...
2025-11-28 16:18:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7: Twenty-Two Years Old, Treated Like a Nobody
Gail gestured from the front, leading the participants through a door in the main hall.
William packed up his things and followed at the very back.
Behind the door was yet another massive hall, occupying a space three stories high. It was an indoor amphitheater.
In the center was a circular stage, wi...
2025-11-28 16:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6: The People at the Venue
On the top floor of the building, inside a luxurious suite.
A Caucasian man in a black suit stood by the window, looking down at the crowd gathering below.
"Johnny, what are the exhibits this time?" the man in the suit asked.
Johnny, also a man in a suit, was holding a glass of whiskey.
"A Witch Hunter's musket, a...
2025-11-28 16:18:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5: The Exorcism Expo
The white rabbit opened its mouth, revealing a smile that looked disturbingly human. It was eerie.
Seeing this, William slowly backed toward the wooden ladder, ready to evacuate at a moment's notice.
But after observing for a while, he realized that apart from the creepy smile, the rabbit didn't emit any evil aura.
There was only one other di...
2025-11-28 16:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4: The Smiler's Mask
William wasn't in a hurry to examine his reward. Instead, he walked over to the middle-aged man.
This man had already been on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
Coupled with the possession by an evil spirit, he was currently in very bad shape.
William held the crucifix on his chest with one hand and placed the other hand ge...
2025-11-28 16:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3: Mission Accomplished
At this moment, in William's eyes, a humanoid spirit was straddling Isa's body, trying to pry her jaws open and crawl inside.
The others in the room were completely oblivious to this horror.
Judy was the only other person present who could see it.
She shrank into the corner, pulling her hoodie over her head, too terrified ...
2025-11-28 16:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2: The Smile
[High-Risk Mission]
This was part of his ability. It would appear periodically.
Completing the task meant receiving a specific item, usually one with unique properties.
For example, the brass bells tied to the fences outside were a reward from a previous mission.
When placed in specific positions, they formed a...
2025-11-28 16:16:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1: The Strange Church
West Philadelphia.
This was the slums. A place where hope went to die and the streetlights flickered like dying pulses.
In the center of the community stood an old, decrepit building. With a rotting black roof and peeling white walls, it was the only church in the neighborhood.
At this moment, two figures st...
2025-11-28 16:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 154: The Letter from London
The December chill always drove wizards closer to the fire.
Sean sat at a table near the library's large hearth. He methodically packed away his books and, before Madam Pince could shoo him out with her feather duster, filled out the borrowing forms.
With a casual flick of his wand, Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms, The...
2025-11-28 12:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153: Roland
"My Lord—!"
Peeves zoomed through corridors and classrooms, but there was no escaping the Bloody Baron. The terrifying ghost cornered him in a dead end.
"I was wrong, My Lord! Forgive little Peeves just this once—!"
The Baron stared at him with cold, dead eyes. Only after Peeves had finished his ear-splitting wailing di...
2025-11-28 12:59:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 161: The Zoldycks x Ging's Bizarre Condition
God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
God didn't say where the light came from or where it went... but Roy knew that regardless of what any god said, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, day after day, month after month, year after year. It shines freely, illuminating the world, not caring a...
2025-11-28 12:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 160: Preaching to the World x Kyojuro Rengoku Converts
Those who kill will always be killed.
Since Muzan Kibutsuji had murderous intent, he struck first. He couldn't blame Roy for striking back. It was only right to kill him and return peace to the night.
The Hashira meeting ended with Roy taking on the "Mugen Train" mission alone.
The...
2025-11-28 12:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 112: Valarie's Benevolence
"High pay, simple work?" Pilar rubbed his slender mechanical fingers together, his expression a complicated mix of greed and suspicion. "That sounds like the standard intro to a trap.
"Corpo-rats, generous? I bet that server's crawling with some kind of brain-melting virus, or the 'asset' we're escorting is a walking bomb!"
... 2025-11-28 12:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 111: The Arasaka Gig
Deep within the desert bastion, the air was thick with the smell of dust, metal, and cheap industrial cleanser.
The only light came from a few hanging work-lamps, casting pools of dim yellow light over the cluttered space.
Maine, Dorio, Rebecca, and Pilar were gathered around a rusted metal workbench, strewn with second-hand cy...
2025-11-28 12:55:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 338: Just Take This Punch First!
"Reinforcements?"
"Besides Admiral Kizaru, there's an even more powerful reinforcement?"
"No wonder Admiral Kizaru isn't here… he went on a mission like that!"
Saint Nusjuro's words had an immediate effect. Although some Marines were still fleeing, the situation had largely stabilized. Many of them lo...
2025-11-28 12:54:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 337: The Death of Sengoku? The Death of Garling!
Under Vista's shocked gaze, Shane walked through the air, black-and-red lightning crackling around him. He sighed softly with disappointment, looking down at the two men in the crater.
"In the end, you still couldn't even give me a decent workout?"
"You talked big about exterminating me, about wiping...
2025-11-28 12:54:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 348: Primal Numel?
"N-nothing!" Basalt suppressed his surprise, pretending to be nonchalant. "Cough cough! Ember, I want to take this strange object back to study it properly. You don't mind, do you?"
"Of course not. Besides, your Bronzong was the one who brought it up. It should belong to you." Ember shook her head, her innocent mind not thinking too much of i...
2025-11-28 12:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 347: Primal Reversion
"You're saying there's something at the bottom of the magma pool that's connected to you and calling out to you?"
When Bronzong translated Numel's message, Basalt was confused.
Or rather, he found it strange.
Why wasn't it there before, and why is it suddenly calling now?
Looking at the steaming magma...
2025-11-28 12:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 327: The Weapon Has Been Oiled
When Karna returned to the Dawnlight, he found Arthur, who had been in another sector not long ago, already back. He was discussing strategy with Romulus, who hadn't rested since the war began, in front of the master map.
Beside them stood an unexpected guest.
"Ulthran?"
Before Karna could even react, Tra...
2025-11-28 12:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 326: The Rehearsal is Over
As if the Omnissiah had answered Cawl's prayers, a transmission from the Dawnbreaker Fleet accessed Trazyn's central processor.
[Return to the fleet. We need to talk. Bring Karna with you.]
A very brief message, but one that Trazyn, accustomed to wandering, clearly had to take seriously.
"It seems the rehears...
2025-11-28 12:51:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 152: The Bloody Baron
"Here, take these Canary Creams, Little Green. Consider it payment," Leon said, pressing a box into Sean's hands. "Now, Pister and I are going to the hospital wing to check on that idiot Bruce. Hopefully, he's not dead."
With that, the two older Hufflepuffs departed, leaving the five first-years to make their way back to the castle, wrappe...
2025-11-27 13:14:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 151: A Difficult Task
After Bruce had successfully dispatched himself, a heavy silence fell over Greenhouse Three. They were now faced with a daunting task: who was going to wrestle the pods from the Snargaluff?
Leon told everyone not to worry, though whether he was reassuring them about Bruce's fate or his own ability to handle the plant was unclear.
2025-11-27 13:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 159: Dominating the Heroes x Roy's Sermon
Wind Breathing?
It was him... Eiichiro Kamado!
A sudden typhoon rose from the ground, snatching the teru teru bozu hanging from the eaves. The wind snapped the string and sent both the doll and Sanemi Shinazugawa flying into the sky!
"How do you know Wind Breathing?!"
It was noon, ...
2025-11-27 13:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 158: The Wonderful Uses of En x Enlightenment at the Estate
Mitsuri is watching him!
What a huge amount of jealousy... En, like an overturned bowl, silently covered the entire courtyard. Roy glanced at Obanai Iguro and easily caught his inner thoughts. The white snake wrapped around his neck, Kaburamaru, flicked its tongue, its slit pupils glowing...
... 2025-11-27 13:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post