Inside the banquet hall, Heather, Serena, and Cui Lin, just as Roy had said, didn't run around but stayed to wait for him.
However, plans never keep up with changes. Not long after the three girls waited in the banquet hall, the corpses on the ground started to stand up.
"What's going on?"
Heather frowned and began to clear out the corpses, but even when knocked down, these skeletons would reassemble and stand back up, leaving her exhausted from the effort.
Serena and Cui Lin were just ordinary people, completely defenseless against the constantly appearing undead.
Moreover, the number of undead continued to increase. Heather was alone, and fighting in an open area like the banquet hall was a huge disadvantage.
So, the three girls were forced to retreat to the much narrower corridor, fighting as they went, just to barely hold back the undead's offensive.
Finally, Heather and the others retreated to the lower deck of the cruise ship. There was a huge swimming pool there, but it had long been dry, the bottom piled high with countless corpses.
These corpses also began to stand up after Heather and the others arrived.
The three girls could only keep running.
"Damn it! I wish I'd learned how to use a gun with Roy!"
Heather's expression was terrible. She had only learned some fighting techniques from Roy before, and was still completely clueless about firearms, so she hadn't brought a gun.
In the situation just now, if Heather had a gun in her hand, even just a pistol, things would have been much better.
Unfortunately, there's no going back. Heather could only secretly decide that after returning, she must learn how to use a gun.
Heather and the others fought and retreated the whole way, ending up deeper and deeper until they unknowingly arrived at a place that looked like a treasure vault.
As soon as they entered this room, Cui Lin's eyes went wide. The room was filled with piles of gold bars and jewels, emitting a dazzling light.
"So beautiful!"
Among them, at the top of the pile of jewels was a massive black diamond, emitting a special magic that drew Cui Lin towards it.
"Cui Lin, what are you doing!"
Heather and Serena weren't tempted by the treasure. They were both people who weren't short on money and didn't place such importance on wealth.
But the tempted Cui Lin became strangely strong, and even Heather couldn't hold her back for a moment, allowing her to pick up the massive black diamond from the pile of treasure.
Then, Cui Lin lowered her head.
Heather, holding Cui Lin's wrist, vaguely felt something was wrong and asked her in an uncertain tone.
"Cui Lin, are you okay?"
Cui Lin, with her head down, replied to Heather in a voice that was hard to distinguish as male or female.
"Hehehe, I feel great, absolutely wonderful!"
Something's not right!
Heather immediately let go of Cui Lin's hand and pulled Serena back.
Serena hadn't realized the seriousness of the situation yet and asked Heather curiously.
"Why did Cui Lin's voice become so strange?"
"She's possessed by something!"
Heather's expression was grim. After all, having gone through so many events with Roy, she had some understanding of supernatural occurrences.
Although she knew the situation, Heather had no solution. While the Ghost Wolf was a hybrid of werewolf and vampire, its abilities were purely physical, lacking other supernatural powers.
This made dealing with more unusual dark creatures, such as ghosts or other incorporeal enemies, quite troublesome.
At this moment, the corpses that had risen from the swimming pool were slowly moving towards the treasure vault. Their speed wasn't actually very fast, which was why Heather and the others were able to escape here.
If they were to leave the treasure vault immediately, Heather and Serena could still escape before the undead surrounded them. However, Cui Lin's condition was very strange, and Heather was momentarily unsure how to choose.
Cui Lin turned around, her beautiful face covered in dense black lines, and her eyes were now just whites. These were typical signs of being possessed by an evil spirit.
"Are you leaving? Why don't you stay?"
Cui Lin reached out towards Heather and Serena.
"Quick, go!"
Heather no longer hesitated. She immediately pulled Serena and ran out, knocking down the blocking undead with a few punches and kicks.
"Stay! Stay! Stay!"
Heather and Serena felt as though countless people were speaking in their ears. There were men and women, old and young, but they were all saying the same thing.
"So noisy!"
Serena couldn't bear it and covered her ears.
"Serena, don't stop, run!"
Heather still needed to fight, so she could only force herself to endure the maddening sounds.
The two of them finally managed to rush out of the treasure vault. Cui Lin, standing by the treasure, didn't chase after them, just stood there emitting an evil laugh and mumbling incessantly.
"You can't escape! No one can leave the Antonia Grassa!"
Heather and Serena fought their way out and soon arrived back at the indoor swimming pool.
While running alongside the pool, Serena was suddenly grabbed by the ankle by a hand reaching up from the pool.
"Heather, help..."
Before she could finish speaking, Serena was pulled into the swimming pool.
Heather turned back to try and grab Serena but found that there was no one in the swimming pool at all.
"Serena, where are you!"
This situation was very similar to when they had first split up. Heather suspected that Serena had entered another dimension again.
Just as Heather was feeling extremely anxious, a force attacked from behind.
Heather, possessing the Ghost Wolf bloodline, reacted incredibly fast, sidestepping the sneak attack from behind, but a pair of hands reached out from the swimming pool again and grabbed her ankles.
Heather was not Serena, after all. Even with two hands grabbing her ankles simultaneously, she maintained her balance and didn't fall.
But more and more undead swarmed towards Heather. With her ankles grabbed, Heather couldn't move and could only stand still to resist the undead.
Finally, two fists were no match for four hands, and Heather was pushed into the swimming pool by countless undead.
With a splash, the expected pain didn't come. Instead, it felt like falling into water.
Heather subconsciously held her breath and found herself seemingly dropped into a dark ocean. She tried to swim upwards, hoping to reach the surface.
However, Heather swam for a long time but couldn't reach the surface.
Although Heather's lung capacity far exceeded that of an ordinary person, her breath-holding time still had a limit.
After swimming for over ten minutes, Heather felt like she was about to suffocate.
Is this how it ends?
Heather's vision grew darker and narrower.
Finally, Heather ran out of strength, and she began to sink slowly.
Vaguely, Heather seemed to see a hand shining with white light grab her.
"Heather, are you okay?"
Roy's voice gradually brought Heather back to consciousness. It turned out that the hand emitting white light was his.
With the help of the insider, Francesca, Roy entered the alternate dimension and forcibly pulled Heather out.
Serena was also nearby. She seemed to have been dragged into the underwater world like Heather and was lying on the ground unconscious.
Heather took a few rapid breaths. For the first time, she felt how wonderful air was. She had almost suffocated.
"I, I'm okay! How is Serena?"
"She passed out. The space you entered didn't actually have seawater. It was a sensory deception, making you think you were suffocating. Heather, did you see Cui Lin?"
Heather looked up and noticed Joey standing beside Roy. Not far away, two women in white dresses and one in a red dress were harvesting undead.
Heather recognized the two women in white dresses; she had seen Sadako and Kayako before. But she hadn't seen the woman in the red dress.
Could it be a new female ghost Roy caught on the ship?
"Cui Lin picked up a black diamond in a treasure vault and then was possessed by something!"
A black diamond?
Hearing this keyword, Roy immediately thought of the cursed diamond that Francesca had mentioned before.
"Where is the treasure vault? Quick, take me there!"
Heather nodded and stood up, holding Roy's hand.
Although Roy said the seawater in that alternate dimension was all an illusion, Heather's reaction after suffocating was very real, so much so that she hadn't fully recovered even now.
Returning to the treasure vault, Heather saw Cui Lin sitting on a throne made of gold bars like a queen, still holding the massive black diamond in her hand.
"I knew you would come back. What's so bad about this place? Why would you want to leave?"
Cui Lin's face was full of intoxication, and her eyes were filled with greed, making Roy wonder if she was truly possessed or just speaking her mind.
"Francesca, what's going on?"
Roy looked at the woman in the red dress beside him. She was a local and should know more about the situation.
"Antonia Grassa is an aggregate of thousands of evil spirits. After they merged, they became very chaotic, and their thoughts became very simple and direct, only responding to external information in a basic way."
As soon as Francesca explained, Roy understood.
This situation was probably like a collection of souls, each with different thoughts, causing the soul aggregate to be unable to process them and thus becoming very sluggish.
The state Cui Lin was in now was likely because Antonia Grassa had just possessed her and hadn't yet been able to merge with Cui Lin's soul. Its own thought process was slow, so it was being dominated by Cui Lin's thoughts.
However, due to Antonia Grassa, the evil thoughts in Cui Lin's heart were magnified, leading to her current state.
"Good. Antonia Grassa probably hasn't had time to devour Cui Lin's soul. We just need to drive it out of Cui Lin's body."
Just as Francesca was about to ask Roy how he planned to drive out a soul aggregate that had merged with thousands of vengeful spirits from Cui Lin's body, she saw Sadako and Kayako return to the Cursed Twin Daggers as if they were fleeing a disaster.
Then, six light wings sprouted from Roy's back.
"Ah—"
Just the power of holy light shining on Francesca's spirit body caused her unbearable pain. This natural restraint was especially evident for evil spirits.
Because evil spirits have no physical body to block the holy light, the light can directly burn their souls.
"Sorry, I forgot to tell you to go back into the revolver. Come on in!"
Francesca really wanted to ask Roy how he could be an angel, but the power of the holy light was truly unbearable. She could only dive into the revolver first and ask Roy this question later.
The holy light also caused great damage to Cui Lin. Black gas was steaming from her body; that was Antonia Grassa's怨氣 (resentment/grievance).
However, under the protection of Cui Lin's body, much of the holy light's damage was blocked.
"Angel! Damned angel! I'll tear you to shreds!"
Cui Lin was incredibly arrogant now, actually trying to go head-to-head with Roy in his angel form.
Roy smirked and raised his hand, aiming at Cui Lin.
"Cui Lin, you need to know that your dad is still your dad! Don't think you can win against me just because you're controlling Antonia Grassa's power!"
These words seemed to make Cui Lin recall some unpleasant memories. Her expression softened slightly, but soon her face was once again filled with arrogance.
"Even if you're an angel, don't think you can defeat me here! Go to hell!"
Just then, a burst of black gas emerged from Cui Lin's body, quickly engulfing the entire treasure vault.
In the blink of an eye, Roy found himself floating on the sea, with a massive cruise ship crashing towards him.
To be honest, this scene was quite shocking.
Roy's size floating in front of the cruise ship was like a person standing in front of a mountain. How terrifying is it to have a mountain crashing towards you?
However, Roy knew that this was all an evil spirit space created by Antonia Grassa using the power of souls after merging with countless vengeful spirits.
In this situation, other than having the insider Francesca take him away, he could only go head-to-head with Antonia Grassa.
Head-to-head it is!
I even defeated the King of Wrath, why would I be afraid of a mere aggregate of vengeful spirits?
Light wings, spread!
The light wings behind Roy became more radiant and enormous. The effect was that his entire body was enveloped in holy light, dazzling like a small sun, and he met the charging Antonia Grassa head-on.
Boom!
A violent collision like Mars hitting Earth!
The evil spirit space couldn't withstand such a terrifying impact and collapsed on the spot!
The result was that Roy stood firm, radiating a dazzling light, while Antonia Grassa was directly knocked out of Cui Lin's body.
After the soul aggregate left her body, Cui Lin's body went limp and fell directly to the ground. The Cursed Diamond, Eye of the Dead, in her hand also rolled away.
"This is impossible! Ah!"
The soul aggregate was a mass resembling grey mist. You could see many different faces rolling and twisting within this misty weapon.
But after losing Cui Lin's body, the holy light's damage to Antonia Grassa greatly increased. It could be seen dissolving at a visible speed.
Antonia Grassa used to rule the seas and hadn't seen much of the world. Even when encountering Roy, a six-winged angel, it was still extremely arrogant and, under Cui Lin's influence, even wanted to defy heaven and kill Roy.
Now, after taking a punch, Antonia Grassa finally sobered up. At this moment, it just wanted to get away from Roy and hide.
So, the thing directly drilled into a vent and escaped.
"Want to run? Dream on!"
Francesca (Francesca Rettondini, this Italian actress has very few works, so it's hard to find pictures).