CHAPTER 205: THIRD RETAINER RITUAL ACTIVATION

"Hmm? What kind of look is that?"

The high-level Black Sinner in front of him showed fear mixed with a hint of fanaticism, as if it recognized him?

Soon,

Red Spirit decoded Jeff’s soul vibes and sent them to its master.

"There are actually human backstabbers in Rock Sand City!!!"

Carlos’s face got dead serious, anger flashing across it.

Putting all the info together,

Anyone who could know Rock Sand City’s top brass arrangements in such detail had to be a high-level or above psychic.

Only someone with serious position and power could know the detailed plans made by the leadership.

But that human traitor was pretty careful, always hiding their identity during communications.

Even the Black Sinners didn’t know what they really looked like!

"Who could it be?"

Carlos couldn’t pin this down for now.

But once back in Rock Sand City,

He could find chances to have Red Spirit decode soul vibes one by one.

He didn’t believe they couldn’t catch this human backstabber!

Carlos kept going through the remaining content, his frown getting deeper:

"The Black Sinners in Rock Sand City

Are split into two parts.

One part is here, handling the False King’s descent ritual!

The other part

Is led by a Black Sinner named Luckybe, handling the portal ritual prep!"

According to the soul vibes, Luckybe’s group of Black Sinners had unpredictable movements and were buried deep.

They always showed up on their own—even when sending people to contact them, they could only leave signals and wait for responses.

"Luckily,

As long as we stop the Black Sinners’ powerhouses from showing up,

A measly high-level Black Sinner can’t cause any real trouble!"

Yeah,

Without a False King’s descent, what could they use to make sure the ritual wouldn’t get screwed up?

At the end,

Carlos actually ’saw’ intel about himself.

"Kingly qualifications?

Demon King?

Me?"

This group of Black Sinners had to have some serious mental problems.

He was clearly human. Kingly qualifications... he could grudgingly accept.

But Demon King, and their Black Sinners’ Demon King at that, bearing the great task of bringing back the Black Sinners—what kind of nonsense was this?

After getting all the information,

Carlos turned and walked to the deepest part of the cave.

There,

Several Black Sinners pinned down by the Dark Purple Force Field kept their original poses, bowing toward the ritual center.

Complex array patterns, withered yellow vines,

At the ritual center, a woman with a totally pained expression—

She felt a deep, terrifying aura eating away at her soul!

"Si... sir, sa... save me!"

Diliya saw the approaching figure, and hope for life appeared in her despairing eyes

As she cried out in pain for help.

She felt her soul was in serious danger.

This deep aura was crazy terrifying. Her soul desperately fought back, but it was totally useless.

Outside,

Carlos’s face went grim:

"Dark mist! The dark mist’s aura again!!!"

"These Black Sinners really know how to ask for death!"

His soul instinctively felt a deadly threat.

Who knew what these Black Sinners were thinking—

If they screwed this up, the dark mist aura would go nuts. Forget finishing the False King ritual—not a single life in the cave would make it out!

"The dark mist infection has already started.

To stop it, there’s only one possible way...

Are you willing to try?"

Only by running a retainer transformation ritual and grabbing the soul from the dark mist aura could complete corruption be avoided!

Honestly, Carlos wasn’t feeling super confident either.

Unlike Purple Vortex and Red Spirit’s predecessors, whose spiritual essence was top-notch, making the retainer ritual pretty much 100% successful,

He wasn’t sure about this person’s spiritual essence quality.

But as a crazy rare Anomalous Soul, it probably wouldn’t be too bad.

Carlos explained the method short and sweet, asking for Diliya’s take.

Whether to try or not was totally up to her.

"You... please try by all means.

If it fails, please kill me right away.

I... I’d rather die than become a dark mist monster!"

Without a moment’s hesitation, Diliya immediately agreed, having figured out the consequences of failure.

"Relax.

So far,

I have never failed."

Carlos really respected Diliya’s will to choose death over corruption.

So he immediately summoned Tulip Shield Guard No. 1.

Then the other shield guards, with practiced moves,

Using Tulip Shield Guard No. 1 and Diliya,

Started inscribing the retainer secret array...

Soon, the retainer creation secret array was done!

"Focus your mind, pay attention to coordination—retainer ritual starts!"

Carlos held his breath and concentrated.

Psychic energy surged within him, firing up each position of the secret array in sequence.

Finally,

Drawing out the familiar inverted double-horned chalice outline!

Right then,

Echoing chants started resonating in the cave:

"Great **,we beseech ***&#@@++—..."

...

After a brief silence,

"Boom!"

A mysterious ** voice thundered through the souls of all living beings in the cave!

The locked-down Black Sinners couldn’t handle this whisper, their souls shaking like crazy.

An inverted double-horned chalice phantom appeared over the retainer ritual!

With the phantom’s appearance,

Waves of weird angry complaints echoed in Carlos’s ears, and strange anger rose in his heart, as if to drown his reason!

It’s changed!

Carlos’s heart tensed, his spirituality stood firm, squashing the nameless fire within

As he kept praying:

"&##soul#&&..."

"Bang!"

Entering soul vision,

Sparse light points flew by, totally lacking the density of the previous two times.

Even the urge for his soul to jump from his body was way weaker.

Carlos easily squashed this urge to leave his body,

Turning his ’gaze’ toward Diliya, who was getting eaten up by the dark mist.

In his vision,

Diliya’s soul barrier was wrapped by a deep aura, rapidly dissolving and devouring it.

Seven-tenths had already dissolved!

According to their prior agreement, Carlos immediately signaled with his eyes:

"Open your soul barrier!

Don’t fight this power!"

"Bring it on then!"

Diliya nodded, enduring the pain and immediately opening her soul barrier.

At the same time:

"Great , ##*&&&"

Along with Carlos’s prayer, the retainer creation secret array fully fired up!

"Boom!"

A totally terrifying devouring force exploded.

The horrifying vessel phantom immediately swallowed both Tulip Shield Guard No. 1 and Diliya, who had given up resistance.

...

"???"

The prey about to be claimed disappeared???

For the second time!!!

After a brief silence, the dark mist aura reacted, quickly searching everything around, trying to find any traces.

But like with Purple Vortex’s incident, under the inverted double-horned chalice phantom’s cover, the dark mist aura found nothing.

As if that person never existed at all!

One hour later,

The resigned dark mist aura had to accept this reality again and disappeared.

"More of a pain than last time."

Carlos breathed a sigh of relief and quietly put away the teleportation scroll.