Chapter 163: May I Hold This Child? / Chapter 164: The Real Crowley Family

This was the purpose of the Mo. Aser ritual.

Everything in the world had an opposing side: yin and yang, cold and heat, good and evil, even matter and antimatter, positive energy and negative energy.

Laura's method of spreading it was to assign corresponding counterparts to each of these polar opposites, then annihilate them in collisions.

To complete this spell, every living being had to be assigned its corresponding other half, and every atom had to find its corresponding antimatter.

Only then could everything be perfectly annihilated. Even the Great Demon herself needed a corresponding person before absolute nothingness could finally be achieved.

Yes, it was a new world in which even the Great Demon herself did not exist.

Kolozun gazed expectantly at the people before her. During the ritual, she had designated herself as the final entity to be annihilated.

That way, the Great Demon could witness the destruction and disappearance of everything with her own eyes, satisfying her lofty sense of mission.

But contrary to expectations, the ritual did not activate. Destruction did not occur at all.

More sweat appeared on Laura's smooth forehead. It was unclear whether she was panicking or in pain.

"What's going on? Why isn't the ritual working? You... Was it you? Did you tamper with my ritual?"

Laura suddenly looked toward Roy. In her view, only Roy could have sabotaged her ritual.

"Treating the flesh as original sin—that's the doctrine of the Gnostic sect, a heretical branch of Christianity. That idea is hardly advisable, Laura!"

"...Why are you looking at me? I didn't tamper with your ritual. It was your own mistake. You simply failed to set the ritual up properly."

"You should know that with such a complex and precise ritual, even the slightest error will cause it to fail."

Roy spread