The Unnameable Mud of Souls

Intense, searing divinity engulfed Balthazar's body.

Naimus appeared to strike with only a single sword, but that single sword contained three flows of time within it.

That was right, borrowing operation as a connection, Naimus's sword Xihe was primarily based on divinity and fire attributes, with the time attribute as a secondary focus.

Precisely because of these temporal changes participating in it, the power of this sword concentrated in a single instant, pushing its force to the absolute limit.

However, this single instant stretched out into three separate instants.

The Dust-Purifying Hemp Robe blocked the first instant for Balthazar.

The second instant then transformed Balthazar's entire body into a pillar of flame.

The divine attribute infused into the flame battered through defenses, plunging straight into Balthazar's body.

The demonic aura of those Berserker Demons was instantly scorched away, and even having protection originating from the taboo proved completely useless.

The second instant passed, and Balthazar was forcefully driven out of his frantic Berserker Demon state; even the layer of horny scales on his body was burned away, leaving him withered and lean like a charred corpse.

The "charred corpse" shifted slightly, and the third instant fell.

Balthazar could be considered a genuinely good person; even if he wanted to escape, he could have completely avoided killing the son of that prominent figure.

Yet he simply felt resentment—why, under the rule of a church bearing the name of protection.

Those who ought to be protected could only become sacrifices for him to kill.

Whereas a willful second-generation scion could make a high-ranking figure of the church pay all manner of prices.

If these resources had been invested into the plague, then the plague probably would have been cured long ago.

If he let that second-generation scion off, then what did those