A charred black hole about a meter wide formed where he stood.
"Ash, I don't have much time. Remember what I said, you stupid fool—you have to die here."
"You have to die here!"
The male figure manifested by Baal began retreating into the walking corpse's mouth, but before he could get halfway back inside, a barrage of lightning came crashing down.
"Ahhh—!"
Baal, with half his body still outside, let out a piercing scream. The sound stirred the surrounding evil energy, making it resonate.
It sounded as though it were blasting from loudspeakers, unbearably tragic.
"Ash, you have to die here!"
Baal, who had been retreating, seemed to realize he could no longer escape. He suddenly lunged out of the walking corpse's mouth at Ash again.
"Are you brain-dead?"
Ash cursed and threw a punch as well.
He smashed Baal—who had crawled two-thirds of the way out of the female walking corpse's mouth and lunged at him in an attempt to entangle him—back into the corpse's mouth, leaving half his body outside.
Then Ash rapidly retreated, opening up considerable distance and reaching the doorway.
Baal and the female corpse formed a '7'-shaped pose as endless lightning struck them. Vast amounts of black evil energy rose from his body.
The rotting female corpse was struck directly into a lump of charcoal.
Dense evil energy continuously spilled from Baal's body. His form grew dimmer and dimmer, and amid his shrill screams, he finally dissolved completely into evil energy.
The black slime throughout the room was completely vaporized as well.
Within a twenty-meter radius centered on the house, everything turned black beneath an extremely dense shroud of evil energy.
That evil energy gradually spread outward.
It was the evil energy gathered from the power of a Great Evil Spirit, now returned to