Underground Chamber

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"Mr. Neva, I hope you have a reasonable explanation." Green stared expressionlessly at the small cloud of white mist hovering above his palm.

A twisted, scarred face was faintly visible inside it. This was the soul Green had extracted from the burly man with the scar.

Ordinarily, the Six-Headed Snake Woman would have devoured the original owner's soul when she possessed him. But Green thought the scarred man named Neva might still be useful, so he had extracted his soul with Soul Siphon beforehand and wrapped it in psychic energy for the time being.

"My lord! I really didn't lie to you, I swear! I don't know what happened either. He was still here when I left a little while ago!" Neva's voice reached him through vibrations in the psychic energy. His scarred face, trapped inside the cloud, looked ready to burst into tears. He was terrified that Green might crush his soul on a whim.

"I don't want excuses. You have ten seconds," Green said coldly, tightening his hand slightly around the cloud of psychic energy.

Neva's soul struggled desperately inside, to no avail. As the seconds passed, his fear mounted. Green's fingers closed tighter and tighter. Then Neva seemed to remember something and cried out, "Wait, my lord! I remember! There's one more place!"

The corners of Green's mouth lifted slightly. He slowly relaxed his fingers...

A short while later, Green arrived at a clearing beside the lake.

It was more than three hundred meters from the three-story Lakeside Villa, but dense shrubs and a large banyan tree blocked the view. No one at