Waves of pain spread through Lucius's soul, but it was nothing he had not experienced before and was able to bear through. The Spike and chain had now been detached from the hell imprint and were held in his soul's hands now.
The chain was easily over a hundred meters long and had nearly thirteen hundred souls trapped in it. The chain started shrinking in Lucius's hand and soon turned into what looked like a necklace.
There was a spike like pendant handing at the bottom of the necklace and if one looked closely they would realize that this was the very same spike that had impaled all of the souls before trapping them into the chain.
The souls themselves turned into motes of light that hung onto the necklace like gems. They were tiny and looked like sparling particles of gemstone dust instead. Lucius looked at the necklace in his hand and smiled.
"Necklace of the Damned… never thought I would ever hold one in my hands…" Lucius muttered to himself.