Chapter 284: Chapter 285 - Souls of the Dead

The air became thick with their collective resentment, and they began to speak, their voices overlapping and merging into an eerie, otherworldly chorus.

"Why... why did you take everything from me? My family... my life... all gone because of you!" one soul wailed, its voice trembling with grief.

"I trusted you! I thought you were my savior... But you betrayed me, cut me down like an animal!" Another soul's words hissed like venom, its face a twisted mask of hatred.

"You... you left me to rot... to suffer... to die alone!" A third soul's voice was barely a whisper, filled with the loneliness of a forgotten life. "Why? Why couldn't you show mercy? Why couldn't you let me live?"

More voices joined in, rising to a fevered pitch, their pain and anger coiling through the room like a swarm of locusts:

"Curse you! Curse you for eternity!"

"Your hands are stained with the blood of the innocent! Do you feel nothing?"