The Lady Nun Vows Revenge by Caroline Rowland

Chapter 718

The mute slave rubbed her eyes and looked back at the corpse, but found nothing.

'Maybe I was just seeing things,' she thought, deciding not to dwell on it.

Then she reached out once more to lift the corpse on the platform.

However, in the very next moment, the mute slave's body went rigid.

Slowly, she looked down to see a hand thrust through her chest, and that hand belonged to the corpse on the platform.

"Where... am I?" the corpse rasped, its voice hoarse and grating.

The mute slave's jaw stiffly fell open.

The corpse then saw the hollow cavity where her tongue should have been.

"Useless," the corpse spat with contempt.

Then, with a sickening squelch, it plunged its hand into the mute slave's chest, yanked out her heart, and casually tossed it aside.

Ignoring the blood on her hands, she got up and paced around the secret chamber, quickly spotting an old bronze mirror.

When she looked into it and saw her stitched-together, patchwork body, Sophie's face contorted in a twisted expression of fury.

She thought, furious and bewildered, 'Damn it! What the hell is going on?!

'Wasn't I already dead? Why is my consciousness suddenly here? Did I... come back to life? But why does my body look so grotesque now?

'The face is mine, and part of my upper body too, but the rest, including my hands and feet, clearly aren't mine at all!'

Sophie examined the unfamiliar hands, then slowly raised one to touch her face.

The tangible sensation only deepened the gloom in her eyes.

Sophie frantically rummaged through every corner of the secret chamber.

'Damn it! A room full of corpses, and not a damn thing of value,' she seethed inwardly.

she still couldn't find a single useful thing. Just then, a sudden noise echoed from

coming in!" Sophie's body tensed

as she fixed her gaze on

door, Fletcher was using an intricately crafted key to unlock

open, a surge of danger made Fletcher's hair stand on

dodging a throwing dagger that came flying straight

that retreat and dodge gave the figure inside the

could react, a dark shadow darted past him and

inside the chamber, below the stone platform lay the dead

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corpse... had

had time to be shocked before snapping, "Damn it! Go after it, bring

that corpse came back to life, it must not be

one

could cause if it

chase, Fletcher's face betrayed not just alarm, but a disturbing

it the parasite that had mutated, or the corpse itself?' Fletcher

a stitched-together collection of

it remained fundamentally dead. However,

planted in the corpse mutated somehow, broke free from my control, and

could only mean one thing; the corpse parasite had

in his throat, his eyes

last evolved into a King Parasite; a single

the forbidden

Parasite, it would be like commanding an army of ten

army, but an immortal legion. No

would stand a chance

already envision himself seated upon that throne, reigning supreme like a true

remained immersed in his schemes of grandeur, Sophie had already bolted out

she broke free, guided by her past memories, she raced straight for the Duke's

feels so

who knew how many corpses, But

strong. She could dart about with

was as if, in just moments,