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Dazzling radiance descended from above.
For the first time, the sewers of Dordot Harbor were bathed in such light.
The evil lurking in dark corners.
The horrors beneath the foul-smelling streams.
Under that radiance, they simply dissolved.
And beneath that same light, Malinda's missing right hand and forearm regenerated at a visible speed.
The surging vitality even left Malinda glowing, her whole being brimming with vigor.
Mihailo froze.
Even this being known as the "Lady of Pain" had never witnessed anything like it.
"Impossible!
This is impossible!
How could voodoo power and holy light coexist?
This is absolutely impossible!"
Faced with a sight that overturned everything she thought she knew, the Lady of Pain roared.
But even as she roared, the Lady of Pain knew what she needed to do.
Run!
The Lady of Pain turned and fled!
But she was still too late.
Malinda exhaled a mouthful of smoke.
The smoke became a sword and pierced her own chest.
Pfft!
The fleeing Lady of Pain's heart was sliced apart at once.
As the smoke sword broke apart into hundreds of tiny smoke needles and darted through Malinda's body, the Lady of Pain's exposed, dangling organs, the bones supporting them, her twisted, grotesque limbs, and her eyes were all sliced apart.
Then...
They were ground to pulp!
The Lady of Pain finally stopped moving, her entire body reduced to a puddle of minced flesh, as though a steamroller had just run her over.
Malinda, meanwhile, smoked her pipe.
Thick smoke veiled her face.
That hurt a little!
Although she had transferred the damage using voodoo power, the pain had not transferred with it. Even with the healing of the holy light, that pain remained.
But what did that matter?
Compared with everything she had suffered as a child, this