Seven Sins System Chapter 579. Wrath Energy

Seven Sins System Chapter 579. Wrath Energy

I watched as their voices rose, their bodies tensed, their fists clenched.

This wasn’t normal.

Sure, people argued. People got pissed off all the time.

But this?

This wasn’t some minor annoyance bubbling over into frustration. This was unfiltered rage, sudden and overwhelming, snapping out of nowhere like a whip.

And I had a very strong feeling it had something to do with that damn energy leak I was sensing.

Because that energy had a similar vibe to mine.

Wrath.

It slithered through the air, clinging to the edges of reality like a sickness, feeding into people’s emotions, twisting them. Not outright control—no, this was more subtle. More insidious. It didn’t force people to fight. It just... nudged them. Like a whisper in the back of their minds, fueling frustration, pushing anger into outright violence.

And that was why this wasn’t some random magical anomaly.

This was intentional.

I sighed, stepping forward.

“Alright, alright,” I said, voice flat as I moved between the two idiots squaring up in the middle of a damn children’s park.

They both turned to glare at me like I’d just personally insulted their entire bloodline.

“The hell do you want?” the first guy snarled, eyes full of barely-contained fury.

“Mind your own business, kid,” the second one growled, his fingers twitching like he was seconds away from throwing a punch.

I gave them both a look. "Trust me, I don’t want to be involved in whatever dumbass fight this is." I gestured lazily between them. "But you’re standing in the middle of a children's park, screaming like a pair of lunatics, and honestly? It’s annoying."

The first guy’s face flushed with even more anger. “Who the fuck do you think you are—”

I snapped my fingers.

[Skill Activated: Hypnosis]

A soft pulse rippled through the air, invisible to everyone but me. The system announcement blinked into my vision.

[Target: Two Human Civilians.]

[Suggestion?]

I smirked.

"Make them forget why they were fighting and hug each other."

[Processing...]

Their bodies jerked slightly.

Like puppets with their strings suddenly cut.

The anger in their eyes flickered... then vanished.

Their tense shoulders sagged. Their fists unclenched.

The first guy blinked in confusion, looking at the second like he just realized they were long-lost brothers.

“...Why were we fighting?”

“I—I don’t know?” the second guy said, his voice weirdly soft now. “Did I—Did I bump into you?”

The first guy scratched his head. “Shit, man. I think I was just having a bad day.”

They both looked at each other.

Then, without a word, they pulled each other into a hug.

Like two dudes having an emotional breakthrough in the middle of a rom-com.

A couple of kids watching from the playground clapped. One little girl whispered, “Mommy, why are those grown-ups hugging?”

I barely held in my laughter.

The second guy patted the first’s back. “I’m sorry, bro.”

“No, bro. I’m sorry.”

“We good, bro?”

“We good.”

Then they both nodded at me, like I had just blessed them with divine wisdom.

“Thanks, man.”

And with that, they walked off, arm in arm.

I stood there for a second, watching them disappear into the distance.

Then, with a sigh, I rubbed my temples.

"Call me a good devil." I muttered under my breath, shaking my head.

Yeah, I just played therapist to two random civilians, using my Hypnosis skill to make them hug it out like some divine intervention. Not exactly my usual style. But hey, at least they didn’t beat each other to death.

Still, that didn’t change the fact that something fucked up was happening here.

The Wrath energy poisoning the air—it wasn’t just some random leak. Someone planted this shit, and I needed to find out where it was coming from.

So, I focused.

Closed my eyes for a second, let my senses stretch outward. If it was a dark crystal, I’d feel a core of condensed energy, pulsing like a heartbeat. If it was an unholy magic formation, it would have ley lines, feeding the corruption into the surroundings like roots through soil.

What I didn’t expect?

For it to be coming from a fucking tree.

I opened my eyes, staring at the massive, ancient-looking thing in front of me. Thick trunk, rough bark, branches stretching high up like skeletal fingers against the sky.

But the Wrath energy? It wasn’t inside the tree.

No.

It was coming from above it.

I narrowed my eyes, following the signature upwards.

‘Five meters up.’

Nestled in the crook of a thick branch, hidden from casual sight, something dark pulsed faintly, radiating pure malice.

“…Oh, come on,” I muttered, rubbing the back of my neck. “You’re seriously making me climb?”

I looked around. No one nearby. Good.

I took a deep breath, rolling my shoulders. Then, I activated my Teleportation skill.

A brief distortion in space. Then, I appeared five meters up, balanced effortlessly on the thick branch.

And there it was.

A small, black crystal, jagged and rough, embedded in the wood like a parasite. It pulsed faintly, almost like it was breathing. Feeding.

I crouched down, inspecting it closer. “Observation.”

[Name: Corrupt Energy Catalyst]

[Rank: Unknown]

[Energy Signature: Wrath (Primary), Unknown Secondary Influence]

[Effect: Gradually infects the surrounding environment with Wrath energy, amplifying hostility, aggression, and violent tendencies in affected individuals.]

[Source: Unknown.]

[Status: Active (Faint Traces Remaining)]

I narrowed my eyes. ‘So it really does have my energy.’

But the problem was where the hell it came from.

Someone had been collecting Wrath, stockpiling it into these curse anchors like some kind of twisted energy farm. But Wrath wasn’t exactly an easy resource to harvest. It wasn’t something they could just mine like mana crystals or extract from a demon’s corpse.

Wrath was raw emotion. It had to be felt. Created.

So the real question was…

Where did they get this much of it?

And more importantly—

What the hell were they using it for?

I exhaled sharply. “This isn’t just some basic curse,” I muttered. “They’re gathering Wrath like it’s some kind of battery. And that’s a big fucking problem.”