Nightmare Cultists: First of All, We Haven't Wronged Any of You!

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"Whoa, whoa, whoa, why are the spirits wandering around here so strange? How did they get twisted into this shape?"

On the Nordtov position, which had already been destroyed, the mummy girl Neferet rode around on her champion beetle, Bumper. But she hadn't come to play or enjoy the scenery. This was serious business.

Murphy had specifically invited her to help the spirits who couldn't find rest on the battlefield.

It was probably because of the warp's influence that the souls on the battlefield couldn't embark on the road of the dead. Even a vampire like Murphy, who wasn't an expert spellcaster, could sense those chilly spirits wandering around. Last night, there had even been several "hauntings."

So when the Death Moon Church's specialist arrived to take a look, she found that the situation really was a bit strange and wrong.

"So, what exactly happened to them?"

Murphy, walking beside Neferet, frowned.

"Some of the soldiers were scared out of their wits last night. They said they'd seen terrifying monsters."

"They really are terrifying, little Murphy. I've been doing this for a long time, and aside from the Abyss of Vengeful Spirits in Mamluk, I've never seen spirits this twisted."

Neferet sighed and jumped down from the champion beetle's back. She made a strange hand sign and waved it in front of the vampire's eyes, temporarily granting Murphy "spirit vision" as well.

He blinked and looked toward the shattered ruins, where he saw souls forcibly fused together by an outside force. They'd lost the appearance of human souls, replaced by "aggregates" that looked like shapeless monsters.

Their forms were hard to describe, since spirits didn't have fixed shapes to begin with.

But Murphy could clearly see some with two heads, some