It had actually put up ten million Soul Bricks as a bounty for Reed Pike's whereabouts, declaring that if Reed had fallen into any Hell, anyone who delivered him to it would receive a soul possessing the corresponding traits.
In other words, the character Wu Heng had possessed back then had made Aiad Ouroboros willing to pay the price of a Hell High Priest's soul.
For such ancient Lords of Hell, their reserves could not be underestimated.
No other Lord of Hell suspected it of bluffing.
Likewise, no Lord of Hell was willing to turn away a Hell High Priest whose traits suited their own.
Though they did not understand why this Ouroboros, coiled deep within the Dreaming Sea, harbored such hatred for an ordinary human soul, that did not stop them from wanting to complete the transaction. Thus, in every Hell—including Leviathan's Labyrinth—their Hell cores rumbled into operation.
Countless beams of Hellish light swept over the Cursed Disciples and demons of their respective Hells, as well as the lowest-ranking soul wraiths.
They searched through their memories.
They sought Reed Pike's whereabouts.
Yet none of them found that man's soul. Even his traces in reality had vanished, as if he had stepped beyond this world.
To them, this was inconceivable.
Because the "Reed Pike" provided by Ouroboros was more than merely a name; it also carried residual information from his soul.
There might have been quite a few people in this world named Reed Pike, but not one possessed a matching soul aura.
Even they understood that a person's soul aura could not be altered.
For changing that aura was not as simple as changing the soul itself. It meant that even the particles composing that soul had changed.
Lords of Hell could easily dissect souls and reshape them into