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A faint silver-white radiance erupted from Kenma, enshrouding everyone around him.

The Witch Cultists were initially somewhat surprised, but when they tried to check the anomalies in their bodies, they became even more terrified.

They couldn't move, not even a single finger. Apart from their thoughts, their bodies seemed completely rigid.

Even Shaula was frozen in place, unable to even move her eyeballs, still maintaining a completely blank expression.

Two seconds later, she finally regained her mobility and clenched her fists in utter astonishment.

"Master! Did you just pause time all around us just now? I couldn't move at all a second ago."

Seeing that Shaula had regained her mobility while the other Witch Cultists were still pinned in place, Kenma roughly guessed the effect of this ability.

That's right, after absorbing the Witch factor, the ability Kenma acquired was still time stop.

However, what Regulus acquired was a state that put himself into time stop, whereas Kenma could create a thirty-meter-diameter domain, plunging everyone within this domain into a state of time stop.

However, the time stop he plunged them into was not the absolute invincibility of Regulus. Rather, everything except their thoughts would be frozen by time.

It seemed that the stronger a person was, the easier it was to break free from the time-stop domain.

Shaula had taken two seconds to break free.

As for these Witch Cultists, nearly ten seconds had passed, yet there was still no sign of them breaking the time stop.

Next was to test...

Kenma strode up in front of a Witch Cultist, raised his fist high, and then slammed it down.

Under the state of being time-stopped, could they react to external attacks?

The next second, his fist landed on the Witch Cultist's body and a shockwave spread outward centered around the two of them.

However, the Witch Cultist stood in place, completely motionless.

Normally speaking, given the bodily strength of Witch Cultists, under Kenma's nearly 300 points of strength, a slight touch would directly explode them into a mist of blood.

Yet right now, the other party had taken this blow completely unscathed.

Could it be... just like what I thought?

Holding the thought of testing it out, Kenma snapped his fingers, and the time-stop domain was lifted.

The instant the time-stop domain was lifted, that Witch Cultist who had previously been hit by a punch exploded into a sky full of blood.

Bang!

Raising his hand to unleash a powerful wind pressure that completely dispersed the blood, Kenma gained an even more accurate understanding of his newly acquired ability.

During the period when the opponent was time-stopped, all attacks he dealt would fully take effect the moment the time stop ended. In other words, this was a stacking damage mechanic.

Mechanics... Mechanics!

Kenma wiped his face, pressed down the joy in his eyes, and waved at the remaining Witch Cultists.

"I'm now a man with Hax too. I'm in a good mood today, so I'll spare you—get lost now."

The remaining Witch Cultists looked at each other, bowed without hesitation, and then slipped into the shadows and disappeared.

Damn it, I originally thought we could switch to a new boss and get away from that screaming freak, but this new boss seems brutally lethal too.

Lifting Roswaal's remains onto his shoulder and having Shaula hug him tight, Kenma soared into the sky once more, flying in the direction pointed out by the Witch Cultists.

In less than half a minute, he spotted a magnificent manor within his field of vision.

It seemed this was the Roswaal Mansion.

Kenma plummeted in a straight line, landing on the ground. Looking at the luxurious manor before him, the corners of his lips twitched.

This bastard sure knows how to live it up.

He jiggled the cloth bag holding Roswaal's corpse, feeling a bit of regret in his heart.

What a pity. He originally wanted to kindly let Roswaal meet the teacher he had yearned for for 400 years. He didn't expect Roswaal to die so fast.

Thinking about how some of his mildly sadistic thoughts couldn't be realized, Kenma felt deeply disappointed.

It's fine, there's still a second wave, let's keep playing.

Kenma glanced at Shaula, and his dear little apprentice instantly understood.

"Understood, Master."

She took a deep breath, and her magic-enhanced voice spread across the entire mansion.

"My Master and your Lord Roswaal are back, come out and welcome them!"

Kenma's composure cracked a bit. Had he known, he wouldn't have let Shaula chant it.

What kind of nonsense was that?

In just over ten seconds, the manor's gates were pushed open, and a girl wearing a maid outfit and sporting short pink hair quickly walked out.

Upon seeing Kenma's appearance, she suddenly seemed to recall something and executed a polite bow to show respect.

"Subaru-sama, welcome to the Roswaal Mansion. Where is Roswaal-sama, might I ask?"

Gazing into Ram's earnest eyes, Kenma flicked the cloth bag in his hand and then threw it onto the ground.

"Here, this is him."

Ram: "??? "

Her gaze locked tightly onto the cloth bag on the ground.

After taking a deep breath, she ultimately didn't reach out to open it, her tone growing a bit more serious.

"Please, Subaru-sama, do not play such malicious jokes. Roswaal-sama did not travel back to the mansion together with you. Could it be that he still has other matters to attend to? If that is the case, please enter the mansion to wait for a moment first. Roswaal-sama should be back very soon."

Seeing the other party's stubborn appearance, Kenma shrugged, then took the initiative to grab the cloth bag and shook out everything inside.

"I told you, your Master is right here."

A lump of flesh and remains consisting only of sleeve fragments and hair remnants tumbled out, landing on the grass at the entrance of the manor.