Chapter 162 - Undeath (3)

What is atonement?

It was taking punishment in place of someone else's accumulated sins.

The sinner was no longer a sinner, and ownership of the sins they committed transferred to the one who atoned.

Along with the sins, their accumulated karma was also collected.

What remained for them was only pure white, cleanly wiped.

Black mana flowing from Jegan's body became ink, filling the blank spaces of the Book of Atonement.

It was a memoir of the life he lived, a confession of the sins he accumulated, and simultaneously a prayer asking me to take those sins and atone in his place.

"My thoughts were right...! You are undoubtedly a devil! You are...!!"

Jegan's passionate cry burst out incoherently.

The power I was taking from him surely wasn't all of his strength...