Allen stared at the youth for a while.

The more he stared at him, the more he felt that there was something within him.

For some reason, Allen\'s divine energy seemed to innately avoid the youth, which shouldn\'t happen since they were in his shrine.

Until now, Allen could feel that the beasts that he had controlled were still wary of the youth.

Allen inspected the body of the youth but he did not find anything.

"Hmm."

Allen thought of a reason for this strangeness. But despite racking his brain so much, he could not find any.

Then, Allen gathers divine energy on his index finger and condensed it into an eye of the spirit. Then, he injected it into the glabella of the youth.

The eye of the spirit entered the inner world of the youth. But, it only stayed there for a while and was extinguished.

But that brief moment was enough for Allen to see what was inside.

The inner world of the youth was unnatural. Unlike the Plague Priest and the other\'s inner world, the youth\'s inner world was unnaturally dark and gloomy.

Then, from the inside, Allen saw an unusual inner body.

The youth\'s inner body has a seed. But the seed inside the inner body is unlike his seed of faithfulness.

It is black and has an evil aura. The black seed, like the seed of faithfulness, was also producing some sort of energy to nourish itself.

But, at the same time, unlike the faith energy, the black seed\'s energy was corrupting the inner body of the youth.

The more the seed grows, the more corrupted the youth would become. Allen reckoned that when the black seed sprouted, the youth would no longer be the same. The youth would be rebirthed anew.

But as to what it is, Allen was not sure. The era where he came from did not have demons. Although his world was bigger, it was not as strange as this one.

Then, as if the black seed felt Allen\'s presence, it burst and which caused an influx of evil energy that instantly corrupted the inner body of the youth and turned it anew.

It condensed the evil energies in the inner world into demonic energy which effectively countered Allen\'s divine energy.

Then, for the second time, Allen felt disconnected from the world\'s aura of life. The divine marks also formed a link to Allen and transferred all the divine energy that they had collected.

This also happened during Allen\'s confrontation with the demonic beasts.

"Hmm, interesting. There seemed to be another Divine Spirit in this world," the newly corrupted soul spoke.

Allen noticed that as it condenses demonic energy, it was also changing, or rather, evolving further.

It was becoming more like Allen\'s inner body except it was made of demonic energy.

Meanwhile, Allen\'s eyes widened as he heard the words of the demonic inner body.

Based on the words of the demonic inner body, there are other Divine Spirits in this world. But Allen could not feel them.

Supposedly, Divine Spirits could feel the presence of other Divine Spirits.

"What do you mean?" Allen asked.

"Hehehe," the evil spirits chuckled in response but it did not answer Allen\'s question. Instead, it exploded as it knew that the newly formed demonic soul was too weak.

*BOOM*

The demonic soul is not the only one that exploded. The body of the youth also exploded and released a considerable amount of demonic energy inside Allen\'s shrine.

Allen hurriedly released divine energies to extinguish all the demonic energy inside his shrine.

He feared that his newly built shrine would be corrupted just like the inner body of the youth.

After that, everything returned to normal. Allen\'s connection to the world\'s aura of life resumed as well as the influx of divine energy. And, the divine mark\'s link with Allen ended.

The beasts inside the shrine stood and were on full alert in case something happened. But everything seemed to be under the control of their Lord, or so as they thought.

Allen felt an urgency. He noticed that the newly formed demonic soul seemed to be controlled by someone powerful. And, whoever controlled it did not feel any urgency for his existence. It even told Allen that there are divine spirits in this world.

Allen, then, sat on the edge of the altar with his feet submerged in the water as he was thinking.

"Is it true? Or just a decoy?"

Then, he noticed an energy that his shrine seemed to be absorbing.

Allen focused and found that it was from the explosion. But energy seems unique. It was not like the spiritual energy and not like his divine energy.

The energy seemed to be very pure and its pureness made it easy for it to be stained. The shrine was converting it into divine energy at a fast pace.

Allen continued to observe it and noticed that it seemed to be extremely close to nature.

If the higher ups of the human race were here, they would be stunned by its density as well as its amount. This energy was very common on the battlefield between humans and demonic beasts.

It was called natural energy. This energy can be converted into divine energy and demonic energy. It could also be used to fix the mother earth and could boost the spiritual energy to a small degree.

But unlike the natural energy from the demonic beasts, it was lesser in density and amount. And usually only the demonic beasts at the rank of general could have this energy after their death.

After all, the beasts were simply infected and they did not possess the black seed, which was called an evil seed.

Natural energy is the result when a divine or demonic energy is filtered.

Of course, Allen was oblivious of this. None of the divine spirits tried filtering divine energy or rather. He did not know any stupid divine spirits to waste divine energy. Or perhaps, he did not remember any of this due to the lack of divine energy.

Allen stood as he had decided to slowly search for the traces of other divine spirits and to urge his followers to expand their numbers.