"Careful! Everyone on this ship was killed by this Demon!" warned the middle-aged man with grayish-green hair, a pallid face, and azure eyes. He held a short sword that radiated a warm aura; the Sun Domain divine spell from earlier had been released by this very blade.
Under the warm sunlight, plumes of charred black smoke rose from Barbosa's body, which should have long since been completely dead. Yet he still exuded an overwhelmingly powerful sense of oppression.
"Demon? Is that a description, or... a demigod?" Light, who stood at the very front, suddenly shrank back, even closing his eyes. Beyonders of the Monster Pathway possessed exceptionally keen intuition; seeing even a little of something they should not see could make blood spray from their eyes.
"Hehe, brat, I only killed six hundred and sixty-six. Don't you dare pin even one more on me!" Barbosa stuck out his crimson tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, revealing a bloodthirsty smile. His eyeballs glowed a blazing red like molten metal, and merely hearing his voice brought a powerful sense of corruption.
"I'd like to know exactly what happened." Sno did not rashly assume that the other two were good people just because Barbosa seemed to be from the Devil Pathway. The passengers on this deck had died slaughtering each other, which was indeed something a Desire Apostle might do, but the deaths of the crew above were not the work of the Devil Pathway.
"As you can see, I am Nomila, captain of a Mandated Punishers squad from the Storm Church. That fellow is Barbosa Norse, a mid-level member of the Blood Sanctify Sect. He has now advanced to Demon. We boarded this ship to hunt him down, and the passengers aboard were sacrifices for his advancement ritual."
Nomila explained