The Exorcism Began in America.

Unshielded pedestrians shouted loudly, trying to attract the attention of others.

However, those with various coverings over their faces merely shivered and quickened their pace.

Looking at the blonde woman lying on the ground beside him, Chu Feng slowly lifted his right foot and then viciously stomped down.

SPLAT!

The blonde head burst like a watermelon, crimson flesh and blood instantly splattering everywhere.

Looking at the still-twitching, dark-red tongue next to his foot, Chu Feng shifted his foot slightly. His right foot, enveloped in golden light, stomped on it and then ground down hard a few times.

POOF!

The headless corpse on the ground instantly burst into countless ashes scattered all around.

After finishing all this, Chu Feng lightly patted his trousers, shaking off the ashes. He looked at the now silent crowd with an enigmatic smile and asked, "Everyone, would you like to continue the performance?"

The surrounding pedestrians looked at each other, their faces wearing inscrutable expressions.

"I'm terribly sorry, Exorcist sir, we didn't know you were performing an Exorcism..." an old white man with a walking stick, his face showing a bit of embarrassment, stepped forward.

Looking at the old man expressing his apologies in front of him, Chu Feng suddenly burst into laughter!

CRACK!

The white-haired head suddenly shattered, and amidst the crimson flesh and blood, a dark-red tongue appeared.

With a golden gleam, his large hand casually scooped up the still twisting and writhing tongue.

SIZZLE!

As Chu Feng's fingers tightened, the still-moving dark-red tongue, corroded by Spiritual Power, directly turned into a clump of charred, rotten meat.

There was another muffled burst, and the old white man's body also turned into countless ashes in an instant.

The consecutive bizarre deaths suddenly plunged the entire street into a deathly silence.

Meanwhile, from the low-rise buildings on both sides, humans peered through the windows at everything happening below. They clutched their mouths and noses tightly, their eyes filled with tears, but dared not make a sound.

The people, whose hearts had been filled with despair these past few days, finally saw a glimmer of hope for survival upon witnessing the events downstairs.

Looking at the surrounding people, who had all adopted indifferent expressions, Chu Feng asked again with that same enigmatic smile, "Everyone, would you like to continue the performance?"

This time, finally, no more of the Bizarre stepped forward to enact their clumsy charade.

After a roar, the surrounding pedestrians charged, their faces twisted ferociously.

The long, dark-red tongues in their mouths, like the tentacles of an octopus, waved wildly.

SWISH!

After a dazzling flash of the blade, all the "pedestrians" who had rushed up suddenly stopped in their tracks.

The next second, BANG! BANG! BANG...

A series of explosions resonated, and soon, pale ash covered the street around Chu Feng.

As he sheathed his longsword, Chu Feng shook his head. It seems Mary Shaw hasn't enhanced the strength of these puppets!

「At the same time, within the Parliament Building in Augusta,」

An elderly woman holding a wooden puppet suddenly froze, her eyes narrowing slightly.

"Billy, it looks like we have a guest!"

"A guest? Billy loves guests the most! Let Billy go play with the guest!"

The puppet's mouth opened and closed, uttering a cheery sentence.

"Oh? Then off you go! Kill that Exorcist named Chu Feng and bring his body here. A puppet made from an Exorcist's corpse will surely be perfect."

Mary Shaw's words made the puppet pause slightly, its mouth opening and closing a few times, but no sound came out.

"Master, Billy thinks that staying with you is the most important thing!"

The puppet's listless voice elicited a light chuckle from Mary Shaw as she turned her gaze toward the Parliament Hall not far away.

"That Exorcist can wait. Our present targets are those fools inside."

Gazing at the grand doors of the Parliament Hall, the smile on Mary Shaw's face gradually faded, replaced by a twisted, malevolent expression.

The pain beneath that intense light, I remember it all too clearly...

「Elsewhere」

Chu Feng, long blade in hand, stared at the ashes strewn around him and fell silent for a while.

This was already the fifth batch of puppets he had annihilated!

Yet Mary Shaw had still not appeared.

It seemed that the loss of these puppets no longer concerned her.

I need to change my approach... She wouldn't invade this city for no reason! After all, it's quite a distance from Ravens Town. Aside from the puppets, what else could Mary Shaw be after in this city?

Looking at the sun in the sky, Chu Feng had a sudden realization.

The image of a nuclear explosion flashed through his mind.

An unexpected thought made him raise an eyebrow.

She couldn't possibly be after revenge...

With the fluttering of the Spiritual Wings on his back, Chu Feng's figure instantly appeared high in the sky.

Let me see, where is the State Government located...

Above the city, with his extraordinary vision, he quickly spotted a building with a golden figurine on its pinnacle.

That must be it!

With a tremor of the Spiritual Wings on his back, Chu Feng's silhouette swiftly crossed the skies above Augusta.

"Help~ Someone save me!"

"Fuck! Why can't we break down this damn door?"

"Damn! We really should have agreed to Bower's proposal."

Inside the Parliament Building, the Parliament Hall had descended into utter chaos. The remains of over a hundred corpses were scattered in every corner.

Crimson blood and the stench of gore had turned the entire Parliament Hall into a scene resembling Purgatory.

The figure of the puppet Billy constantly darted through the corners, tormenting every surviving human.

An assemblyman hiding under a desk trembled uncontrollably, clutching a Silver Cross and ceaselessly praying for God's protection of His followers.

"Billy doesn't like the look of your ears!"

The sudden, duck-like voice beside his ear made him shudder, and the cross fell to the ground.

SLICE!

Two ears, considerably smaller than a normal person's, were promptly sliced off.

The intense pain and the bizarre puppet looming before his eyes made the assemblyman, already on the verge of collapse, lose his sanity completely.

"AAAAHH—"

A shrill scream suddenly echoed through the entire Parliament Hall.

A long serpent formed from countless dark-red tongues streaked past the screaming assemblyman, snatching a fresh red tongue from its owner. The scream that had reverberated through the Parliament Hall was abruptly cut short.

Another one dead! the other humans hiding in various corners thought, their bodies shuddering.

Standing at the center of the Parliament Hall, Mary Shaw surveyed the hellish scene around her, nodding in satisfaction.

"Billy, pick up the pace! Once we've dealt with this cursed bunch, we have other business to attend to," she commanded.

Her voice sounded like the pronouncement of their doom. The humans still cowering in the corners instantly collapsed to the floor in despair.