It’s either the soul trait that stores the souls of the deceased or the coffin from the lord rift. Personally leaning towards the coffin keychain because of the note from the will:[May the Star with the greatest accomplishments shine the brightest. May his light ignite the embers of the dying star anew. May his Cursed Soul bend fate as he pleases.]

Regarding qi marks and soul marks: Shouldn’t Archie also possess something like Thomas which would tell the family he is dead? Also how come gatlin didn’t get backlash when ace opened his ring. Is it a new feature of the system after its upgrade(similar to soul sense destruction without alerting the other party)

What a random personality change. Suddenly caring for the town people when he has done far worse.

Seen a couple comments calling the villains idiotic. Here’s why I think otherwise: 1)They are confident in dealing with the consequences should the get the “item”. 2) Finding the protagonist took them 13 years through a divination technique(gonna assume it’s a time consuming technique thus it’s unlikely they’ll be able use it again in a short period of time); they possess no information on their target other than the fact that it’s a kid.( tons of kids in a large city: identifying their target amongst them would be nigh-impossible and even if they could it would be time consuming which increases the odds of something going wrong- e.g kid joining the military or otherwise leaving the region. Again divination took ages thus they wouldn’t even know they had missed their target until later.) In conclusion: Killing every kid in the city as soon as possible has the greatest odds of bringing about their desired result