Selina's Dark Turn (1)

"What a pity. It failed. It seems your sins were too great for you to bear my lord's mercy and power." Freya showed no surprise as she watched Joey Jackson fall dead. Under the effects of Death Corruption, his body rapidly decayed into a skeleton.

By then, Freya had all but become a Fanatic Believer. After gaining supernatural abilities, she was convinced she had received divine favor. Even when Green's spell on Joey failed, she supplied her own explanations: the True God could not be wrong. Joey's faith had been insincere, and he was unworthy of the blessing of such great divine power.

Meanwhile, at a castle-like mansion on the outskirts of Fleidenburg.

This was Viscount Luciwang's secret base for training female slaves, and an important place for him to cultivate ties with other nobles and high officials. Nearly every noble and high official in Friedenburg City had secretly come here to choose from the female slaves he had painstakingly trained. It had long since ceased to be a secret in Fleidenburg's noble circles. Instead, owning one had become a mark of fashion and status. If a noble had no slave trained by Luciwang in his household, it all but showed that he had not been accepted by Fleidenburg's nobility.

At that moment, in the castle's basement, the vast chamber showed signs of having been designed for this purpose from the start. Its walls were built of rough-hewn stone blocks, each weighing over a ton. Stacked layer upon layer, they made the room feel massive and solid.

More than a dozen expensive Magic Lamps mounted on the walls kept the basement from being dark, but the instruments of torture lined up against the walls and the cramped cages sent a chill down the spine. Though the implements and cages had