After being trapped inside Crawling Hunger, the three remnants of Medici and the others still found it hard to believe. They could not accept the reality before their eyes.
A King of Angels and the lingering spirits of two Angels had actually been shepherded by a Shepherd!
And in the end, they had even been stuffed into a Beyonder item?
Although, because of the item's grade, the vacant souls inserted into it could not be effectively controlled or enslaved.
They still retained their own consciousness.
Even so, this was far too outrageous!
"Didn't you say that was your master?"
"It has your master's divine aura, yet it shepherded you."
"Looks like this is the final use of worthless trash after it lost all value."
"..."
Inside Crawling Hunger, Ain Thorne and Sauron kept mocking Medici like a comic duo, until even Medici began to lose confidence.
Still, he stubbornly defended himself.
"Shut up! This is the proper way for us to escape!
"Otherwise, once we leave the place where we interacted with the world, without replenishment from the spirit world and without Characteristics, we'll only grow weaker and weaker!
"Being shepherded now removes those concerns instead. Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen such a low-grade Beyonder item. If he had devoured us himself, even our consciousness would have dissipated."
Medici spoke with great conviction, and his reasoning was sound.
Because Beyonder Characteristics were conserved, although wraiths and evil spirits could draw upon the spirit world's power, that power was limited to the places where their final resentments had lingered before death.
Once they left, they would gradually weaken, even at Medici's level.
Unless they obtained new Beyonder Characteristics, or found a Beyonder of the Death pathway above Gatekeeper to possess, borrowing the Netherworld power formed within that person.
Now that they