Soul Devourer

In the end, Freya never learned the Little Maid's name. The girl had offered up her soul, and Freya had promised to kill the evil Count Fulongke.

Years of hatred, repression, abuse, and humiliation in Viscount Luciwang's household had left the Little Maid with no desire to live. Only her determination to take revenge had kept her going, and now she had entrusted that purpose to Freya. A faint smile touched her lips. One last glimmer of relief crossed her vacant eyes before she closed them, bowed her head, and knelt.

Freya watched the Little Maid, who had lost all will to live, without a flicker of emotion. She extended her right index finger.

Following her movement, the bloodstained Bone Claw beside her shoulder extended its index finger too. An instant later, it pierced the Little Maid's head with a wet schick.

The strike was swift and clean. The Little Maid felt no pain, and the death of her body finally freed her soul. But what emerged from the corpse was no ordinary human-shaped soul. Years of suffering and hatred had warped it beyond recognition!

It was a monster ten times the size of an ordinary person, with no trace of human form left. Its tangled, chaotic soul-body resembled a giant tumor growing without restraint. At its crown gaped an enormous mouth filled with sharp fangs. As it opened and closed, it drew in every fragment of soul left by the dead nearby and swallowed them whole.

The Soul Essence of those Freya had killed had already been collected by the Graveyard and converted into its Psychic Energy balance. But the spirit born from the Little Maid's twisted soul devoured without discrimination. Its mouth worked ceaselessly, swallowing every spirit it could find, down to the smallest scrap.

Freya did not