"They've all been treated. Rest assured, Elders. Here, they can neither live nor die. There is no third path."
The Evil Soul Master in charge of the Water Prison spoke eagerly. These two were elders of exceedingly high status within the Holy Spirit Cult, and both were formidable Soul Engineers in their own right.
If he could latch onto these two, it would be far better than serving beneath that madwoman. After all, no one could say whether their immediate superior might suddenly take out her anger on them.
This was precisely the problem with the Holy Spirit Cult's excessively mixed factions.
Unlike a conventional villainous organization, whose members were generally united by desire, did not mind harming others, and did everything they could to obtain what they wanted, yet at least followed rules internally—the Lawful Evil faction.
Or the Neutral Evil faction, which acted as it pleased but at least judged whether to act according to profit, disregarding rules without actively destroying them—the Holy Spirit Cult also contained a great number of Chaotic Evil members.
Among them, Wu Yun, who would occasionally whip himself senseless, was a prime example.
The only reason such people could exist within the Holy Spirit Cult was because Evil Soul Masters were being slaughtered by the Shrek Surveillance Group, while the strongest among them also needed to establish a force capable of contending with Shrek. That was why they had been absorbed into the organization.
But in truth, once any faction was filled with people driven to act solely by their own desires, hatred, and urge to destroy—people with violent tempers, malicious natures, tyrannical ways, brutal methods, unpredictable behavior, and the audacity to seize anything they could—an organization's collapse would only accelerate.
"Chaotic Evil has so many goofballs" essentially meant that most Chaotic Evil