Fortune-Telling: The Past

Balthazar did not care whether the enemy was Naimus the Demon or Clement, the traitor to The Church.

Both were enemies of The Church, and it was practically certain that both were plotting against his soul.

He had long since lost the desire to live, but no matter what, he could not die before the Sin Soul had been safely dealt with!

This was the conviction he had upheld for so many years.

Do the right thing.

Protect this world!

Though the massive warhammer looked enormous, it was exceptionally nimble in Balthazar's hands.

When he swung it, it did not whip up great gusts of air. Instead, it smashed toward Clement like a flame.

Naimus did not know, but Clement did.

This warhammer was called Flame of Purging Sin, a holy artifact of the Church of Guardianship. Though it was shaped like a warhammer and its actual weight was astonishingly great,

it had in fact been forged from a special kind of flame.

This flame possessed a peculiar trait: the deeper the "sins" of the person it touched, the heavier the hammer became.

The reason Balthazar could wield this hammer was that none of his own "sins" had been committed willingly. Rather, they had been acquired through circumstances that had pushed him into them.

Thus, he existed in an in-between state—guilty, yet not guilty.

And Clement knew his own affairs best. He was certain that if the hammer touched him, even with the "calamity creature" buffering the blow, there was a ninety-percent chance he would be smashed into serious injury with a single strike.

Watching the hammer draw nearer, Clement's expression shifted slightly. An imp drilled out of the soft earth and slammed headfirst into the hammer, knocking it off course.

Since he had learned Balthazar's information in advance, Clement