Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 68 Crime
Ethan's thoughts went back to several days ago, the night when the red moon rose. Later he learned that it was a strange phenomenon in the heaven and earth caused by the sacrificial ceremony in River Town. When he was practicing fireball magic under the gas lamp, the residents of River Town were dying in pain and despair because of the curse in the water source.

However, as time went on, he realized that things might be much more complicated than he had imagined.

The contaminated zone is a special space, so special that as long as you make good use of the rules in it, even an ordinary follower of the evil god can kill the Knight Commander of the Empire.

In the book "Jacquewell the Messenger of Light", it is mentioned that Jacquewell and those Investigators A who died at Depth 3 were all fourth-order extraordinary beings from different paths. They were all at the top in people's eyes.

The Empire's Knight Commander, Lady Higan, also stopped at the fourth level and failed to enter the realm of saints.

Therefore, Ethan reasonably suspected that the witch possessed Miss Becky used the sacrificial ritual to create the contaminated area with the ultimate purpose of eliminating the Knight Commander of the Empire. The reason why she "awoke" at such a delicate time was because someone resurrected her.

The witch is a follower of the evil god Bazatos. That was the generation of Baron Gladin's grandfather, which was also the era when Jacquewill proposed the concept of contaminated areas. Perhaps the people who "resurrect" the witch need the knowledge in her mind. In exchange, they will help the witch to complete her revenge.

If you think about it carefully, he met Miss Becky in the rainstorm because of the collar around Miss Chloe's neck.

The witch came to reclaim the collar, which seemed to have a very special meaning to her.

If the werewolf collar is the anchor mentioned in the book, everything can be explained.

But as Ethan mentioned last time, the water here is too deep, and anyone who tracks it will die.

His current behavior is tantamount to seeking death.

He began to sort out the context of things again and wrote down all the logical relationships he had thought of on paper. The purpose of all this was to get rid of Bi'an, the "annoying guy" in everyone's eyes.

The reason why the Empire called up an expeditionary force was that the whereabouts of Dream Eclipse members were discovered on the border.

Their whereabouts were discovered because they murdered a former A-level investigator in Hearth Bay.

When he was sorting out documents a few days ago, Ethan always felt that the logical relationship between the two was very far-fetched. He was a frequent visitor to Hearth Bay and knew the operating mechanism of teleportation magic. He didn't understand why the Empire's intelligence personnel could infer the specific location of the murderer's teleportation through a single teleportation.

It was not until he read "Jacqueville the Lightbringer" that he suddenly had a terrible guess.

Among the high-ranking officials of the empire who want to kill Bi'an, some have close contacts with the evil god believers organization, and it is very likely that they are in a cooperative relationship.

They provided Dream Eclipse with the whereabouts of the former investigators of the Containment Bureau. In return, these evil god believers would provide them with relevant intelligence and even help them remove some stumbling blocks that the imperial high-ranking officials were not convenient to deal with.

This news was extremely bad for the town of Riverwood. Based on his understanding of the evil god's followers over the years, once the Knight Commander was eliminated, they would definitely take the opportunity to make more demands, for example, sacrificing the entire population of Riverwood Town to the evil god Bazatos.

This is the means by which the cultists harvest power. The more people they sacrifice, the closer their connection with the evil god becomes.

Although Miss Becky left them forever, the mastermind who resurrected the witch who possessed her was still watching them somewhere. Even the information about the assemblers brought back by the caravan was intentional on their part. They knew very well that the expeditionary force would investigate Riverside Town after receiving the information, and then fall into their trap step by step.

There's really no way out.

Ethan thought about the worst possible scenario and felt that Ivy might have been targeted as well and was probably on the list of people to be silenced.

With her style of getting to the bottom of everything, it is hard for her not to be silenced for the reason of "you know too much" these days. There is a record of her retrieving the case file from the Gear City Branch, and those people will know it once they check. Those people dared to frame even the Knight Commander of the Empire, so what can a noble lady who ran away from home count for?
What's more, they can completely blame this matter on the followers of the evil god.

Ivy was unfortunately killed while investigating a case of followers of an evil god. This kind of thing happens every day and is no longer surprising.

It was late at night when Ethan took the organized information about the contaminated area out of the study. Ivy and Bi'an sat side by side on the sofa. Bi'an happened to talk about the "Witness Protection Program", which she had heard from hearsay.

The Other Shore: "After the containment breach, the few A-level investigators who survived applied for transfers due to mental instability. This was originally a normal work arrangement, but later even the Inquisition got involved. They destroyed some work records and their subsequent whereabouts."

These two departments had no direct connection with Wang Guojun, so Bi'an just listened to it for fun.

Ivy keenly grasped the important clue and immediately asked, "Why did the Inquisition hide their whereabouts?"

"Because someone has been pursuing this matter."

"Who?"

"It's the one you know."

Bi'an said, "At that time, she was still a member of the Seven-member Council and had considerable power. The Bureau of Investigation's follow-up work arrangements were later put to a vote, but no one except her was willing to continue investigating, so the vote naturally failed. Because of this, she and the Tribunal were very unhappy."

"and after?"

"I heard that she has been investigating the containment breach. After the new director issued the ban, she went in privately several times. This was discovered through investigation. God knows how many times she actually went in. For this, the Pope personally warned her, but you also know the final result."

The two of them fell into silence at the same time. Those were the darkest years for the empire.

One year after the containment breach, the Corruption War broke out, and the Pope's worries came true. Because the Winter Witch entered the contaminated area too frequently, she was inevitably corrupted by the evil god and transformed into a believer of the evil god.

At least that's what's recorded in the empire's written history.

Then came the great battle in the imperial capital that everyone knew about. In the past hundred years, there had never been a war like this on the continent involving several saints.

The king was seriously injured and the witch died. Since then, the empire has never recovered and has fallen into internal and external troubles.

“Why not let her investigate?”

After a long time, Ivy asked in a muffled voice.

"The relationships involved here are too complicated. We can't just let her keep investigating. What if she finds something?"

Bi'an smiled and said, "Don't forget, that man's crime is believing in evil gods and killing important officials of the empire. No one can bear this crime, not even the saints."

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