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"I only feel shame as I hear what happened here. To think I ever trusted the Murim Alliance... they're all scum. Trash! Rulers of Heaven? My ass! They're all monsters!"
As the old man complained, Partner looked into the distance, noticing the two other Vampires and the sect members beside them struggling to force the barrier against the Void Aura.
But they couldn't do it. Maria's Void Aura seemed to nullify it completely.
"They extracted the souls of these people. Most of them had their souls forcefully taken before they died," Emeraldine sighed, choosing not to mention the children—it would have been too much.
"Oh... so that's why there weren't any souls!" Nyx said.
"Yeah, we know who did this. We just have to find them now," Maria replied. "But behind it all, it was planned by the Murim Alliance. And look what we have here—an ambush. They easily guessed we were coming back, right?"
