He became the White-Haired Evil God after wearing the Seven Curses Rings.

What are you doing here?

Upon hearing Edward's question, the girl called Ellie replied dejectedly.

"Shouldn't I have come?"

"No...no."

Edward looked tense.

"I'm just curious, why did you come to see me at this time..."

Hearing Edward's voice grow softer and softer, Ellie had no choice but to suppress her accusatory expression.

He began to preach slowly.

"Master Roland informed me that you were seriously injured in a fight while trying to stop the Assassination Association's plot to destroy the library, and you were taken to the First Hospital."

Upon hearing the news, I came to visit you immediately, but unfortunately you were still unconscious when I arrived, and I waited for a long time..."

Upon hearing Ellie's explanation, Edward was immediately dumbfounded.

What the heck?

How to stop the Assassination Association's plot to destroy the library?

Is this really the case? I didn't even know that myself.

However, seeing Ellie's increasingly sorrowful face, Edward's heart tightened.

He didn't care whether it was reasonable or not; he just wanted the girl in front of him not to be sad.

Edward looked at Ellie with a hint of self-reproach in his eyes and said, "Ellie, this is indeed my fault. I was so careless and ended up lying here, making you worry."

Hearing Edward's self-reproachful words, Ellie couldn't help but chuckle.

"Hmph~ You're always like this."

Then she gently took Edward's hands and spoke slowly.

"When did I ask you to apologize? I'm happy as long as you're safe and sound."

Besides, haven't you always taken such risks before, constantly venturing into dangerous places and then narrowly escaping death?

I'm always the one taking care of you. In all this time, when have I ever complained about you?

Ellie's gentle tone brought tears to Edward's eyes.

"Aili..."

Ellie put her hands away and picked up the warm soup from the side.

"Alright, drink this soup first. I made it myself, and it's very helpful for your recovery."

Then, Ellie picked up a wooden spoon and fed Edward the soup spoonful by spoonful.

……

"You wretched Edward, you'd better beg me not to find out where you went."

Xie Bai struggled to his feet.

Feeling nauseous both psychologically and physically, Xie Bai's expression was extremely uncomfortable.

"Hmm...it still tastes awful."

"Edward, you little bastard, I'll definitely make you pay dearly when I get the chance."

Xie Bai was helped to the sofa, where he lay down almost completely exhausted.

"Phew, I'm finally alive."

Xie Bai then turned to look at the backpack interface.

【Spiritual Essence Group *1518】

"Hmm... how come there are still so many..."

It's painful to look at.

We might as well feed it all to funeral parlors.

Thinking of this, Xie Bai casually took out the funeral rites.

[Ritual Funeral]

[Quality: Amazing]

[Scythe-type equipment]

【…】

【Soul Devourer: Allows you to absorb items related to souls to gain corresponding growth.】

Xie Bai felt that the text "Soul Devourer" seemed to light up for a moment, though he wasn't sure if it was just his imagination.

"Looking back, this scythe was also a key part of my growth."

"Without the large number of attribute values ​​it provided at the beginning, I'm afraid it would have been very difficult for me to snowball and become as powerful as I am now."

"Unfortunately, it's starting to fall behind me a bit now."

Of course, this is not about the mechanics, but only about the basic values ​​provided for ceremonial funerals.

In terms of mechanics, funeral services are quite superior.

In particular, the triple attribute of the ceremonial funeral directly changed the nature of her normal attacks.

It deals three instances of damage at once, and these three instances of damage are judged independently, which can circumvent the limitations of the Greed Curse to some extent.

However, due to the low intelligence of the Void Zerg, the Blessing of Gluttony cannot devour much, resulting in Xie Bai's current intelligence value being very low compared to her other attributes.

As a result, the three entries related to ceremonial funerals cannot be fully utilized.

Of the three instances of damage, the second instance of magical damage is negligible compared to the first instance of physical damage.

The low magic damage even reduced the effectiveness of the third stage of damage.

This directly lowered Xie Bai's output by a whole level.

Although Xie Bai's burst damage was severely excessive, both emotionally and rationally, Xie Bai felt that he needed to upgrade this "beginner weapon".

"If upgrading the funeral service could resolve my unbalanced attribute values, that would be great."

Xie Bai lay on the sofa, muttering to himself.

For a moment, Edward's matter was forgotten by her.

Xie Bai looked at the details of the funeral ceremony again.

The description of Soul Devourer is very vague. It is basically unknown how many spirit particles need to be invested for it to grow, or what new abilities it will have after it grows.

Xie Bai decided to test the waters by investing in one hundred spirit clusters first.

"Tick-tock"

It's like a drop of water falling onto a calm surface of water.

When the spiritual mass entered Li Zang's body, it stirred up a white ripple on Li Zang's surface.

The sacred artifact "Funeral Ritual" has undergone some changes!

"That's working?"

But that makes sense.

Spiritual essence is already hard to obtain; normally, Xie Bai needs to kill a boss to get it.

If it weren't for the fact that the Judgment skill could easily obtain Spirit Essence Clusters, it's hard to say whether Xie Bai could have produced a hundred Spirit Essence Clusters.

Seeing that more intricate silver-white patterns had appeared on the surface of the burial chamber, Xie Bai curiously opened the detailed interface of the burial chamber.

[Ritual Funeral]

[Quality: Amazing]

[Scythe-type equipment]

[Usage requirements: lv.300 (ignored)]

[Strength Boost: 100,000 + Level * 1000]

[Wisdom Bonus: 100,000+ Levels * 1000]

【…】

[Funeral: When holding the Funeral Ritual, you can discover, touch, and absorb lost souls. The absorbed souls will be temporarily stored inside the Funeral Ritual.]

You can consume 1% of the number of souls in a spirit mass to hold a grand funeral for these souls, and obtain a corresponding artifact of the same series based on the scale of the grand funeral.

The stat boost from the funeral service increased tenfold, boosting Xie Bai's strength and wisdom by over 170,000 each.

Although Xie Bai's mana increased significantly as a result.

However, the damage increase provided is still insufficient.

In fact, it's just a drop in the ocean in this regard.

"However, the focus of this funeral is not on attribute values."

Xie Bai looked at the newly added entry.

funeral.

It's just a reversal of the traditional funeral rites; the naming was rather perfunctory.

However, its effects are by no means perfunctory.

Xie Bai carefully read the description of the funeral's effects.

"It can absorb souls, then consume a spirit mass to hold a grand funeral, and then provide an item based on the scale of the grand funeral..."

"A divine artifact?!"

Xie Bai looked at the last paragraph in surprise.

It truly is a miraculous artifact.

Xie Bai could understand the significance of this description.

After all, her ridiculously powerful funeral rites were a divine artifact.

One magical artifact is enough to make Xie Bai soar, so what if there were more?

Moreover, the description mentions artifacts from the same series.

This means that Xie Bai's newly acquired artifact will not conflict with or steal the ecological niche of existing burial rituals.

Furthermore, it can form a special bond with funeral rites, producing an effect greater than the sum of its parts.

"In that case, let's keep the remaining spirit matter for future use."

Although Xie Bai felt that the remaining spiritual essence was enough for the ritual burial to undergo a second transformation.

However, since Xie Bai has no shortage of output, the second upgrade of the Ritual Funeral has been temporarily put on hold.

More than a stronger output, Xie Bai now needs new abilities to cope with more unexpected situations.

"But how can we find enough lost souls?"

Xie Bai stroked his chin and began to ponder.

"I always felt that the existence of a large number of lost souls was not a good thing."

If a place has a large number of lost souls, it is highly likely that a horrific massacre has occurred there.

Many people died, and their souls, for some reason, could not find peace and could only wander the world, lost and confused.

"It feels like something only an evil villainous organization would do..."

Wait, an evil villainous organization?

Is it that kind of cruel, indifferent, evil villainous organization that only wants to destroy the world?

Xie Bai clearly remembered that there was an entity that matched this description.

"The Chaos Cult?"