Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

"We don't have much time left!" Shirley interrupted Vicky, looking at the pentagram gradually tinged with a holy light, and shouted.

"If we allow him to continue polluting the rules of the Pride Ring, he will soon turn this place into a hell of hatred and suffering, where all sinners who enter will endure endless torment!"

At this point, Shirley's eyes turned bloodshot, and demonic horns appeared above her head. Gripping the trident tightly in her hand, she charged towards Tsurugi's back, who was releasing holy light at the top of the church, just like Don Quixote charging headlong towards the windmill.

however--

The Hell Princess's furious attack couldn't even break through half an inch of the thick holy light, while Tsugumi slowly turned her head, looking at Shirley with a smile.

"Ah, the princess has arrived. But what can you do? Rely on your mother's singing, or on the power of your father that you have never awakened to?"

Shirley didn't speak, only roared and screamed, unleashing a scorching fire that tried to burn away the thick holy light.

However, all of this was in vain; the barrier of the Holy Light remained unbroken.

"Stop, Shirley." Vicky pulled Shirley back, thrusting the Angel Steel Spear forward. The light that Shirley couldn't tear through was actually pierced slightly.

"The power of hell cannot harm the radiance of anything above the level of archangels; only the weapons of heaven can!"

“Vicky…” Shirley looked at her best friend with some surprise, seemingly not expecting her to know such a secret.

"But so what?" Tsugumi didn't care, and continued to modify the world's rules, speaking casually.

"How many weapons do you have? What can the weapons of heaven, driven by demons, do? How can your combined strength possibly shatter my holy light?"

"Look at the entire Pride Ring! Tsurugi, your tricks have been exposed!"

Shirley pointed at the assembled sinners below and angrily shouted at Tsugumi.

“Your believers are dying, your words are no longer believed, everyone, everyone is sinning because you no longer believe in redemption!”

"Oh? You can't turn the tables on me, Princess?" Tsugumi looked at Shirley with a mocking smile and said leisurely.

"But the truth is, my followers and I are just one step away from ascending to heaven, and now, I just want to make this hell more 'beautiful' before I leave."

"Why do you have to be so cruel?" Shirley asked, almost exasperated.

"This is our world, the place we live in. Do you really want to turn this into a giant torture chamber?!"

"Isn't hell just a giant torture chamber?" Tsugumi looked at Shirley with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot and mocked her.

"That's just religious propaganda spread by humans," Shirley exclaimed.

"This is what hell looked like before those religious propagandas. It's you who are trying to reshape the world that already exists using human standards!"

"What's wrong with that?" Tsurugi said slowly.

"No matter what, I hold the belief that whether it is hell or heaven, angels or demons, they ultimately serve humanity."

“They serve the true Creator, and humanity is the Creator’s true favorite. Therefore, the good should be rewarded and the wicked should be punished; that is how Heaven and Hell should be.”

"If not, then transform him into this!"

"You love humans?" Shirley sneered, then pointed to the enormous demons below, churning and churning from countless fused pieces of flesh and blood.

Is this how you show your love for them?

“My voters have no reason to live.” Tsurugi’s voice seeped from the blood of these corpses, like water seeping into sand.

"Their value lies in their blood."

"Hehehe, to put it bluntly, these guys' souls are either suffering endlessly and no longer need a physical body, or they have already atoned for their sins and this body is just a useless burden."

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"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Shirley cursed loudly, then decisively left with Vicky.

On the ground, the army of sinners could no longer advance any further.

The sinner lords had now joined forces. Camilla led the way, followed by her daughters, who carried the angel steel weapons forged by their mother.

Meanwhile, Vox hovered above the group, cables snaking beneath his feet, each cable ending in a screen, intent on hypnotizing every follower of Dongjiang within range.

Valentino stood guard beside Vox and fired, while Alastor and Rosie led the cannibals on both sides. The sinners behind Zassiu had the most firepower and bore the brunt of the attack.

However, they underestimated the number of believers in Dongjiang.

One-third of the population of Pentagram City has become Tsurugi's puppets. They have surrendered their souls and remaining bodies, and the flesh and blood of these sinners have been transformed into materials for creating a giant demon under Tsurugi's dark magic.

While these enormous demons are indeed a bunch of mindless, instinct-driven beasts, their sheer number and sheer size make it difficult for these sinners to break through.

"Fuck! These damn things are completely unresponsive to my hypnosis!!!"

Vox dodged a troll's slap in disarray, cursing the deformed and twisted monsters. His only remaining power besides electricity was hypnosis, but this trick was clearly ineffective against these soulless creatures.

Even those believers who had been redeemed and had their souls returned were completely unaffected by his hypnosis. Their overly devout faith made the media-based manipulation appear clownish!

"Ha ha ha, Vox, I told you you needed more training." Alastor elegantly manipulated the shadows to slice the troll into pieces, grinning as he did so.

“Shut up, Alastor! If you’re willing to give me your power, we can become one…”

Well, even with a formidable enemy at hand, the infighting among the sinner lords is the root cause of their inability to break through.

If they continue to delay like this, Dongjiang will probably have already completed the complete transformation of the Pride Ring before they even reach the cathedral's entrance.

"Ah, look who's here, my Morning Star!" Just then, Rosie clapped her hands happily as she watched Shirley and the other girl flying down from the sky.

"What could be more suitable to lead us than the princess of hell!"

The sinner lords had a lot to say, but with Alastor and Rosie openly siding with Shirley, and this ridiculous problem jeopardizing everyone, Shirley was their only hope.

“Listen! What the Martyr is doing is adding his rules to the Pride Ring, and his rules are the same as what you saw in your previous illusions!”

Shirley didn't waste any words and directly told these people what Tsurugi was doing.

"Once he succeeds, all the sinners in the Pride Ring will begin to suffer torment! And all the sinners who go to hell afterward will also have to endure extremely cruel pain!"

The sinner lords fell silent until Camilla finally spoke.

"What are your instructions, Your Highness?"

"We need weapons, weapons made with a lot of angel steel—to blast open the heavenly light that protects his church!"

Vicky spoke before Shirley could.

"Camilla, we knew you came with a weapon like that, right?"

Camilla was silent for a moment. She waved her hand behind her, and her daughter pulled back a magical canvas that concealed a large, white cannon.

"This is a weapon I made from angel steel I collected a long time ago. It can fire a cannonball powerful enough to kill an archangel," Camilla said earnestly, looking at Vicky.

"However—its biggest flaw is that it requires an angel to operate at its core. The power of sinners is insufficient to activate it; only an angel, and only an angel, can do it."

"So where do we need to find a living angel now?" Alastor looked at Vicky with a wicked grin.

“…I am an angel.” Vicky took a deep breath, stepped forward, and looked at Shirley sadly.

"Shirley, I'm sorry I've kept this from you all this time. I'm actually an exorcising angel under Adam's command..."

Blah blah blah, anyway, it's just another round of the usual drama of female colleagues questioning, doubting, and then reconciling.

Ignore all that, just know that they finally shoved the cannon barrel right in front of Dongjiang.

"Last chance, martyr, stop!" Shirley was still trying to persuade Tsugumi to surrender one last time, but there was no response.

She lowered her head, unwilling to look at Vicky, who was acting as a human battery. As Vox eagerly charged her, Vicky, now inside this cannon of heaven, soon let out a painful scream.

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The cannon greedily extracted the radiance from her body, transforming it into pure holy light power through the angel metal. Accompanied by a golden wing appearing at the muzzle, a dazzling holy light cannon shot straight towards Tsurugi!

The artillery fire whistled, tearing apart the defenses in front of Dongjiang! One layer, two layers, three layers, and then—

"Fuck! Camilla, didn't you say this thing could break through that awful light?!" Vox shouted at Camilla, looking at the holy light that was still half-pierced.

"Because that little angel's rank is too low," Tsugumi explained slowly and kindly.

"To break through the defenses, you'll need to send at least one six-winged angel inside. But—well, some of the rules have been revised. Ladies and gentlemen, witness it!"

Accompanied by Tsurugi's joyful laughter, the next moment, Shirley and the others saw a scene that horrified them!

Hundreds of sinners fell from the pentagram like dumplings being dropped into a pot. Instead of being transformed into sinners, their souls were directly sucked away in the invisible air, right before the eyes of both Heaven and Hell, leaving only their bodies smashed to pieces on the ground!

These souls were not taken away by the Tsurugi River, but were bound by the Pride Ring itself. Therefore, the scene of their torment is clearly displayed on the pentagram.

At this moment, the entire hell witnessed the utterly miserable state of these hundreds of sinners.

Decapitation, skinning, dismemberment, suffocation, swallowing poisonous insects, slow slicing, piercing...

Countless punishments, both invented and uninvented by humankind, were inflicted upon these wicked individuals in their lifetimes, their agonizing screams and wails echoing throughout heaven and hell.

Even Valentino, who loved to torture, gasped at the sight, and even Adam in the heavens thought—brother, you've gone too far!

Only Tsurugi felt that the force was still not strong enough!

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536. I'm done pretending, it's time to slaughter you all.

"My God, what is that? How could such a thing happen!"

"It's terrifying, so evil, so... ugh!"

"I don't want this! I don't want to be tortured! Quick, kill myself! If I kill myself, I won't have to suffer anymore!!!"

After Tsurugi successfully demonstrated his initial transformation of Hell to the entire Pride Ring and Heaven, it was clear that countless previously aggressive sinners were now terrified into quails.

They were acutely aware of the sins they had committed, especially since the torture scenes were all labeled with the specific sins and reasons for the torture.

What human traffickers see is the endless pain transmitted to the soul through every piece of flesh after being subjected to slow slicing.

What the rapist saw was flesh being torn apart, internal organs being pulled out countless times and then growing back.

As for the more serious criminals, the future they envision for themselves is so tragic that they can't even describe it.

All I can say is that Tsurugi has seen so much of the world, and it's hard to say how much progress other places have made, but in terms of tormenting people, the amount of suffering it has endured is countless.

In the face of such a horrific shock, a large number of criminals even chose to commit suicide to avoid possible torture.

After all, sinners can be reborn after death, but it takes a long enough time. Is such a long time possible...?

It is not possible

In terror, many sinners in Pentagram City chose to commit suicide, but this was not their end, for at the moment of their death they were teleported to the pentagram.

The process of the body being stripped away was even omitted; the soul was directly and remotely extracted by the pentagram, and then the TV series featuring Tsugumi's favorite lover began.

Quack! Yep! Ya! Crack!