[As you mercilessly drove the grotesquely shaped Inverted Spear of Heaven, which radiated a deeply unsettling aura, into Reggie Star's brain, exposed without the protection of his skull, this ancient sorcerer's sinful, miserable second life came to a complete and irreversible end, after he had crossed a thousand years hoping to wreak havoc in this era once more.]
[You withdrew the Inverted Spear of Heaven without expression, letting the mangled body crash heavily into the pool of blood like a puppet with its strings cut.]
[Lowering your eyes slightly, you studied the corpse at your feet with absolute composure. The scene you had anticipated did not occur.]
[He did not dissolve into ash and vanish into the air like cursed spirits composed of pure cursed energy when they were exorcised. Nor did the forcible destruction of the ancient sorcerer Reiji's soul cause all of Reiji's features to fade from the cooling corpse like a discarded disguise, leaving behind the original appearance of the unlucky modern man whose body he had forcibly possessed.]
[The lifeless body lying before you still bore the appearance and physical characteristics of the ancient sorcerer Reiji.]
[The overwrite etched deep into his genes, flesh, and bones was clearly more overbearing than you had imagined, but you still keenly detected a faint clue.]
[You noticed that, within a tiny area surrounding the wound where the Inverted Spear of Heaven had pierced his brain and forcibly nullified the cursed energy's effects, the muscle fibers and arrangement of cursed energy residue seemed ever so subtly different from those elsewhere in his body.]
[This demonstrated that the Inverted Spear of Heaven's extraordinary ability to forcibly nullify any active cursed technique could indeed undo this soul-overwriting state called incarnation to some extent.]
[But only to a very slight extent.]
[This might