The intense and thunderous explosion instantly reverberated throughout Aurous Hill, even waking up the entire city from its nocturnal slumber. The valley where the explosion occurred had its dense vegetation obliterated, forming a circular blank space with a radius of several hundred meters.
Mr. Chardon had completely vanished without a trace, his entire being vaporized, leaving no residues behind.
The notion of ‘a soul surviving despite the death of the physical body’ was nothing but a deception. It was an empty promise given to them, luring them to sacrifice themselves generously.
Mr. Chardon only realized at the moment of his death that the formation the British Lord had left inside their pineal gland thirty years ago was not something capable of preserving a strand of their souls. Instead, it was a tremendously powerful self-destructive formation. In a critical life-or-death situation, what they believed to be a hope for being reborn had turned out to be a means to perish with their enemies.
When the explosion occurred, Charlie, who was less than two meters away from Mr. Chardon, also vanished without a trace. On the ground, besides the tattered remnants of Charlie’s clothing, only a few small-sized fragments of Tridacna remained. These fragments were originally Charlie’s Soul Blade.
His Thunder Order, which had been crafted from Thunderstrike wood, had already turned into a pile of black ash in the explosion.
At the edge of this several hundred-meter-radius blank space, a heavily injured woman was struggling to crawl forward. She was none other than Ruby.
“British Lord, oh British Lord, Mr. Chardon was right. You are truly… too sinister!”
As she thought of this, she could not help but murmur, “The four of us have served you for so many years, but you’ve never regarded us as human beings. In your eyes, what’s the difference between us and those suicide bombers with explosives tied to their bodies?!”
Ruby clenched her teeth and continued to crawl painfully toward the distance.

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