The span from dizziness to the agonizing destruction of her soul took only an instant.
Morgana le Fay immediately understood that this sudden, excruciating pain was no accident—it meant her Horcrux had been destroyed.
Following the plan, Herpo had abandoned her and sacrificed the "spiritual knowledge" within her soul fragment to the Master.
In this world, the only thing capable of piquing the Master's interest was this so-called "spiritual knowledge."
Even Herpo only knew of the concept of "spiritual knowledge"; he had no understanding whatsoever of what it actually was.
To gather "spiritual knowledge," the Master had bestowed the Killing Curse upon Herpo. Only by ending lives with the Killing Curse could "spiritual knowledge" be harvested most efficiently.
Furthermore, the Master had bestowed upon Herpo the revelation to resist the Killing Curse.
It was through this bestowed revelation that Herpo created magical artifacts known as Horcruxes.
The foundation upon which the Isaiah Society was built was the Killing Curse directly bestowed by the Master, along with the Horcruxes Herpo had created through revelation.
To Herpo, the Killing Curse was a "scythe" for harvesting "spiritual knowledge," while Horcruxes were a "shepherd's crook" for drawing wizards into the Isaiah Society. This made him the Master's "shepherd."
At the core of Morgana le Fay's plan was a sacrifice targeting the entire Paris Region.
By sacrificing the residents of the Paris Region, she would gather enough "spiritual knowledge" to summon the Master's early descent and wipe out all the Guardians gathered here in one stroke.
Should this plan fail, Herpo would take her place and activate the contingency plan she had left behind.
At that point, Morgana le Fay and the Isaiah Society members still fighting would be transformed from the plan's executors into sacrifices, with Herpo completing the final offering.
So long