Author Disclaimer: My apologies, there was an unexpected outage in the town that lasted for a couple of hours and made it impossible to release the chapters in time.
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As Felix exited the chamber, leaving behind the echoing screams of Manananggal and his family, a strange void began to fill him.
He had expected relief, satisfaction, and perhaps even a sense of triumphant justice. But instead, he felt...nothing. It was as if his spirit, fueled for so long by the raging fire of vengeance, had suddenly found itself without purpose, without direction.
He was left hollow, a shell echoing with the ghosts of his past. The anger that had propelled him, the hatred that had kept him focused, had dissipated, leaving behind a stark emptiness that was somehow more painful than his previous torment...