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After healing up, the seven of us bid our farewells to the others, and made our way to the powered down Prism Globe.

Now that it's powered down, there are no defenses to strike us down anymore. We made it inside safely, and eventually found ourselves in a massive throne room.

And at the end of the room, Wonho sat on his throne, his body covered in a thick black cloak.

"This is the end of the line Wonho! Show yourself and face us like a Sin!"

I angrily insisted.

"Hmph. As you wish, your majesty"

He chuckled as if this was all just a joke.

But the moment he stood up is when everything took a turn.

His power suddenly increased, and he changed into his Oni form right after he ripped his cloak off. But his Oni form is unlike any we've ever seen before!

He doesn't have two horns like the average demon, and he doesn't have one or three like Jaemin or Renjun! He doesn't even have just one tail!

He has four horns and four tails, and he has an incredibly muscular physique to go with them!

"Aww, why the scared faces? Isn't this what you wanted? Didn't you want me to show myself and face you like a Sin? Don't get cold feet on me now~"

He chuckled once more as he slowly approached us.

"What the hell...?? How can one demon be this powerful?? We've never faced anyone of his caliber before, regardless if they were a demon or a ghoul.."

Renjun mumbled.

We can't help but be intimidated by Wonho. He's a completely different breed. He's been around for three whole generations, and through each generation, he's grown more and more powerful.

"So this is why his sin is Despond... T-There's no way we can beat this guy by ourselves.."

Chenle became scared, and quickly hid behind me.

We were quickly starting to lose hope, but we can't help it. His power is just too immense... This is just impossible...

"That's right. Let your fear take over. The seven of you are no better than the other fourteen. You'll join them in death, just as you're meant to do. And this realm will finally belong to me~"

He just kept coming closer and closer, and we could even see the power radiating off of him now.

We tried not to, but we couldn't help backing up to try to get away from him.

The moment we took a step back, all of the beads on our bracelets suddenly started glowing. But instead of the previous princes showing up, we each got protected with an aura in the color of each of our sins, and we couldn't feel the intimidation from Wonho's sin anymore!

We must've called out to the princes for help out of fear without realizing it!

This time, instead of backing up more, we walked towards him just like how he was approaching us, making him stop in his tracks.

"What..? This has never happened before. How can my power have no effect on you?!"

"Because we have something that you don't: Help from the past"

Jeno smirked.

"Damn pests... They don't know how to die and just stay dead.. Very well then... Blade of Anguish"

He became angry, and summoned a dark and powerful blade.

But then, he suddenly summoned the dust of his fallen ghouls, and absorbed their power into himself!

"So that's why they didn't just fade away!"

"They were planning on helping him to the very end!"

Jisung and Donghyuck concluded.

We should've tried to stop them when we had the chance. Now Wonho's gonna be even harder to defeat.

After being powered up by their remains, he transferred some of his own power into his blade.

"Don't be quick to get so cocky you brats. You may have their power, but not even they could defeat me. Know your place, beneath my feet!"

He used only the sheer power of his gaze alone, and managed to blow the others away, leaving me out in the open.

"MARK!!"

Renjun tried to get to me, but he was too far away.

Wonho suddenly teleported behind me to kill me, but I'm not going down without a fight.

"This isn't over!"

"He's not going to kill you the same way he killed me!"

I could hear Jackson and Namjoon even if I couldn't see them, and the gold bead on my bracelet glowed even brighter than before.

So this is how he killed Namjoon, and he's trying to kill me the same way. Pathetic.

First Shownu tried to kill me the same way he killed Jackson, and now this? It's gonna take more than these rehashed murder attempts to kill me.

"Namjoon! Jackson! Lend me just a bit more of your power, please!"

I called on their power once again, and I was surprisingly able to use my hand alone to stop Wonho's blade without even touching it.

Before either one of us could react after I stopped it, the reaction caused by our powers clashing created an explosion that engulfed the entire room, with the both of us at the center of the blast.

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