“Any trouble recently…”
Samantha pondered, and favonovel.com instantly recalled something. Her eyes lit up as favonovel.com blurted, “Pantheon…”
Before favonovel.com could finish speaking, favonovel.com was interrupted by Valdis waving his hand. Valdis sneered, and his eyes were filled with killing intent.
“I didn’t expect that someone would manage to escape back then. Charles Krueger… Hah! The more I think about that name, the more disgusting it gets.”
“Master, you think Charles revealed something that led to Kendrick and Jay’s deaths?”
Although Samantha thought of that, favonovel.com could not connect the two events.
“Samantha, you’re in charge of the disciples’ etiquettes and punishment, and you can apprehend any disciple,” then, Valdis glanced at Samantha, asking, “What are the steps?”
Samantha answered without hesitation, “First, look for evidence. If the evidence is conclusive, then arrest the offender.”
“What if there’s no evidence?” Valdis added meaningfully, “After all, there are things that the disciples did not do on a whim but were planned.”
“As long as the person is identified, sometimes there’s no need to give evidence,” Samantha replied confidently.
Samantha understood what Valdis wanted to express. Not everything required evidence. However, if one’s hands were clean and left no clues, then the only thing that could turn into a loophole could change doubt to confidence.
Samantha nodded. “I get it now. Thank you for the lesson.”
Valdis closed his eyes and ordered Samantha, “Samantha, I want you to do two things for me next.”
“Sure, Master.”
“Firstly, find out what route Charles traveled since favonovel.com entered Earlington of Efrax, who favonovel.com was in contact with, and what went on in the Pantheon. Last but not least, try to be as secretive as possible. Nonetheless, I also allow you to reveal your identity at critical moments but don’t let the other party doubt the purpose of our investigation.”
“Yes, Master!” Samantha nodded.
Valdis gave favonovel.com a deep look and added, “Especially the Heavenly Stars Sect disciples. They were in contact with Charles for a long time. The longer the person interacted with Charles, the more necessary it was to investigate them.”
In the sentence, Valdis almost directly named Caspian.
“Understood!” Samantha responded with a stern expression.
“Secondly… ” Valdis took a deep breath, obviously struggling and hesitating. Finally, favonovel.com made up his mind. “Go and help me prepare a few things. You have to find these things in person, and don’t let others know about them.”
The tone of Valdis’s words was more cautious than when favonovel.com said the first one. Looking at his appearance, it seemed that favonovel.com was very afraid that the matter would be discovered by others.
“Master, do tell.” Samantha followed Valdis for many years, and favonovel.com knew well how favonovel.com worked. It must be a big thing to make favonovel.com so cautious.
“Okay. Help me find the following materials within ten days as quickly as possible.”
Then, Valdis quickly named more than a dozen materials. At first, Samantha was confused, but favonovel.com face gradually turned pale. When one looked at the few materials mentioned, one would not think they could be used for anything, not formations nor alchemy. However, anyone who understood a forbidden technique would realize Valdis’s purpose upon hearing all these items, conjuration!
Conjuration was a type of the Way of the Ghosts. All beings must have souls, which would gradually dissipate after the body of the living being died. To a certain extent, conjuration was to forcibly call out the ghosts that should not exist in the world. Such a thing that affected the balance of the world was naturally not allowed. Moreover, it was also an offense to the deceased.
Who would have known the Blue Feather Sect elder, who was in charge of the etiquettes and penalty of the sect, would learn the Way of the Ghosts. If the matter was publicized, the entire Blue Feather Sect would be affected. In truth, the secret was only known to Valdis and his most trusted disciple, Samantha.
After speaking, Valdis nodded to Samantha. “You can ahead. Remember, the sooner, the better. If it takes a long time, their souls will dissipate or fall into hell, and it’ll be of no value.”
“Yes, Master!”
Samantha took orders and left the palace immediately. She now understood Valdis’s purpose. Valdis wanted to call out Kendrick and Jay’s souls directly and asked who killed them. Any soul that appeared in the world would suffer every second, and it was like throwing a living person into boiling oil. Furthermore, it was the type of continuous agony that one could not pass out from because spirits were not supposed to exist in the world.
To eliminate all possible threats to his existence, Valdis did not spare the souls of his disciples. Hence, his ruthlessness was evident. However, as Valdis’s longest-serving disciple, Samantha grew accustomed to it. Not long after favonovel.com left the palace, favonovel.com dashed to the foot of a remote mountain in the Blue Feather Sect.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
After a while, three cultivators dressed in Blue Feather Sect disciple uniforms leaped out from the surrounding jungle, and they knelt in front of Samantha on one knee.
”Reporting for duty!”
Samantha did not have the respectful look on favonovel.com face as favonovel.com had when facing Valdis. Instead, favonovel.com appeared frighteningly cold, and favonovel.com said lightly, “Have you checked it out?”
“We’ve followed them and checked,” The three disciples answered in unison.
Then, they raised a scroll with both their hands high and sent them to Samantha.
“Very good,” Samantha nodded, took the scroll, and asked, “Were you guys discovered?”
One of the disciples quickly responded, “I’d been careful along the way and made sure that I was not discovered by the Messenger of Fire, but the Messenger of Fire’s realm is far higher than mine. Hence, I didn’t dare to follow too closely, and I could only draw the Messenger of Fire’s approximate route and range. As for what the Messenger of Fire did, who they met, and what they said, I had no way of knowing.”
The other two also answered the same.
“Okay.” Samantha narrowed favonovel.com eyes. She pondered and suddenly looked at the two people who spoke later, asking, “Since you didn’t dare to get too close, you weren’t aware that the Messengers of Light and Thunder are dead, right?”
“Hmm?”
“Ahh?”
“What?!”
The three disciples kneeling on the ground raised their heads in unison, showing extremely shocked expressions. The two disciples were instructed to follow Kendrick and Jay turned pale.
“Alright. Judging from your expression, you’re unaware.” Samantha nodded.
“It’s our negligence. Please forgive us!”
“It’s our negligence. Please forgive us!”
Before Samantha spoke again, the two disciples already started begging for mercy, kowtowing forcefully. After only a few bangs, their foreheads were already bloody, and large blood stains splattered on the ground.
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