The pedestrians did not make a single scream. One by one, they simply collapsed, stopped breathing, and met their deaths.
Though shocked to the core, Mai Rada did not lose his composure. He checked them one by one, and only after walking a dozen meters forward and examining three corpses did he begin to feel suspicious. "Could it be a curse?"
He could not see any fatal wounds on the townspeople. He could only infer that some nonhuman being had attacked them mentally—but in truth, even if they had suffered a mental attack, their bodies should have retained some vitality for a short time.
Yet these people had lost all their Life Force in an instant.
Teacher Prin, however, was looking up at the sky in silence.
"What are you looking at?" Mai Rada's heart trembled. He felt that, with his powers sealed, he might have missed something.
"Now you can see." Teacher Prin reached out and lightly tapped the space before Mai Rada's forehead.
See... see?
He immediately focused his eyes and looked. Beneath the night sky, tiny points of light were slowly drifting upward... The lights resembled fireflies, creating a breathtakingly beautiful scene, yet one that was terrifying at the same time.
Because these specks of light were the souls of people who had died... They might become spirits, ghosts, or even vengeful ghosts and evil spirits—the result mainly depended on the conditions of the environment at the time.
But clearly, these souls had become none of those things. They remained in their most original state.
Mai Rada drew a sharp breath. He suddenly understood what Teacher Prin had meant when he said that the time of this town had been brought to an end!
Someone... or rather, some force, was harvesting every life in this town!
"King