Chapter 1184

The villagers, resembling the walking dead, were deathly pale with veins bulging under their skin. Their pitch-black pupils fixed on Shannon and the others as if they were eyeing a delicious meal, hungry and unblinking. The group, alongside Reginald, were stunned in place until Shannon's frantic shout pierced the air. "Run!" Almost immediately, everyone sprang into action as if by reflex. They simultaneously turned and sprinted toward the village entrance, urgency fueling their every step. The villagers behind seemingly detected the scent of something that drove them into a frenzy. Their faces twisted in unnatural contortions as they let out guttural growls, charging toward the group with maddened determination. "Lexie!" Shannon urgently called out, prompting Lexie to pull a talisman at the same time as her. "O' heaven and earth, come in control; spirits and all, and none shall flee… Bind!" "Three souls to the left, seven spirits to the right; unseen in motion, unheard in stillnes