Mystery: Death Singer

Edric was momentarily stunned, not understanding why he had suddenly recalled this memory, but he quickly gleaned some key points from it:

"The clown-dressed person looks like Klein, but the headless corpse on the ground is unrecognizable. The look in his eyes and the scattered tarot cards... it seems like some kind of symbolic ritual..."

"Zilingus's death at Mr. Azik's hands was largely due to Klein's efforts, so scattering tarot cards at the scene wouldn't be considered a misattribution. I... should I learn this trick? It sounds interesting; maybe I can even collect royalties from Klein later..."

Edric's eyes flickered as he looked at Azik, who had already put the letter away, and asked:

"Mr. Azik, do you have any tarot cards here?"

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In the dark and chaotic hall, having given up hope of the assassination, Zilingus ran quickly, smashing through a lounge door and a bay window.

With a clang, Zilingus lunged out of the house, and with the help of the wind and the difference in altitude, he glided a considerable distance and flew out of Duke Negan's mansion.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, Zilingus immediately ran towards the woods opposite, where there was a municipal park, a perfect location that he had scouted during the preparation phase to use as cover for his escape.

Once he temporarily escapes the pursuit from behind, he can change his appearance through "wriggling hunger" and blend into the population of over five million in Backlund!

Passing through the woods and across the artificial lake, Zilingus, favored by the wind, successfully distanced himself from his pursuers, gaining a brief respite.

But at that moment, all the colors around us became unusually intense.

The verdant trees became even greener, the bright red fruits even brighter, and the dark water even darker; everything looked like a canvas splashed with oil paint.

Zilingus found himself suspended in mid-air, with the dark water rising steadily beneath his feet, and pale hands reaching out from below.

Further away, unnoticed by him, Edric, following behind Azik, stared wide-eyed as the famous "Hurricane Admiral" suddenly stopped.

A massive skeleton, four meters tall, emerged from the void and blocked Qilingus's path. The pirate general smirked, and his left palm suddenly burst forth with brilliant light, appearing as if it were made of pure gold.

Edric instantly had a sense of déjà vu; he had seen this light before, just last night, when Solana tried to use the "Gem of Light" some distance away from the underground castle!

That is the power of the "Priest of Light," the "Holy Light" of Sequence Five of the "Sun" pathway!

A pure, blazing light suddenly descended from the sky, enveloping the enormous skeleton.

In just a few seconds, as the brilliant beam of light dissipated, the black flames in the eye sockets of the giant skeleton quietly extinguished, then became transparent and vanished into the air.

Edric was terrified by what he saw. Luckily, Solana was calm enough last night; otherwise, no one could withstand a sudden attack from her.

It should be noted that although the huge skeleton looked like a grunt next to Azik, its necromantic aura was quite impressive.

For example, among those necromancers, undead, and nature spirits closely associated with Edric.

Neither the Frost Spirits, Stone Spirits, nor the wolf packs of the Underworld could stand a chance against this enormous skeleton in a one-on-one situation. Only Sannes, who possessed a Sequence Rank 5, could easily suppress or kill it.

The key issue is that Edric is currently unable to withstand the negative impact of "psychic" Sannes.

In other words, without using his ultimate trump card, he seems unable to defeat this "messenger" who usually only delivers messages or notifies Mr. Azik to come and rescue people.

The sense of inflated ego brought on by the unexpected windfall vanished instantly, and Edric became acutely aware of his own weakness.

A massive skeleton that he himself was likely no match for would be instantly killed by Qilingus, one of the seven pirate generals. While there weren't many extraordinary individuals at the level of "pirate generals" in this world, they were certainly not few either.

Edric also knew that the seven pirate generals roughly corresponded to the "Sequence Five" level. In front of high-sequence powerhouses who were half-gods and half-humans, they were nothing more than candle flames that could be extinguished at will.

"Marich couldn't make any rash moves because he was being hunted down, so he could only stay in the card room every day. I actually went to play cards with him on my own initiative. How lazy I am..."

Edric was in a daze and could only force his attention to Ziringus in front of him, watching as one huge skeleton after another appeared beside the "Hurricane Admiral".

They were nearly four meters tall, with their eye sockets burning with darkness, exactly like the huge skeleton he had just evaporated with "holy light".

Seeing at least a hundred huge skeletons appear at the scene of the ambush in an instant, Edric gasped, gaining a clear and intuitive understanding of the power of a high-sequence expert for the first time.

Hundreds of pairs of eyes burning with pitch-black flames looked at Qilingus at the same time. The dark water below him rose higher and higher, and pale, illusory hands grew out of the water, waving upwards, trying to grasp at a straw for salvation.

"No!!!"

Edric could see clearly that Zilingus's life force was extinguished in an instant, like a candle flame.

The entire ambush lasted only a little over ten seconds, and the famous "Hurricane Admiral" had already lost his life, forever remaining in Backlund.

After the giant skeleton took "Wriggling Hunger" from Zilingus's hand, Edric quickly stepped forward, took out a deck of tarot cards he had just bought on the way there, and scattered them around Zilingus.

Finally, whether out of some kind of morbid sense of humor or some reason that Edric himself couldn't explain, he placed the "Death" card, which he had deliberately taken out beforehand, on Zilingus's head.

Edric didn't know if others could see the clues, but he believed that Audrey, the "Justice," and Alger, the "Hanged Man," who were present at the scene, would definitely understand the deeper meaning.

In any case, when Zilingus died, the "Grim Reaper" of the Tarot Society was indeed present, and the one who took action was a big shot through the "Grim Reaper" pathway, so there was no deception or fraud involved.

As for the matter of helping the evil god establish an identity, regardless of whether there were any tarot cards left at the scene, a certain member who was extremely good at making up stories would take the initiative to associate this matter with "The Fool".