Chapter 681 He Is Not Dead?

Time goes back to a few dozen minutes ago.

When Reina sneaked into the Marquis's manor after the fire, the pungent smell of sulfur in the air became more obvious.

The smell of sulfur does not necessarily represent the devil. After all, people usually use it to repel insects, etc.

But whenever the devil appears, it must be accompanied by the smell of sulfur.

With the Crusaders guarding outside, the priests of the Glowing God inside relaxed their vigilance a little. The various divine arts they cast were aimed at the cultists who had obtained the power of the evil god.

Reina, a completely orthodox stealth, who relied purely on shadow energy to drive [Stealth], successfully slipped into the manor.

After the fire, the originally magnificent and tall houses in the manor had almost collapsed as a whole, leaving only the broken walls that were burned black and smelly.

The priests were scattered everywhere, chanting prayers to soothe the soul and purify the evil, purifying the remaining void pollution in the manor to prevent it from bringing subsequent effects.

A dozen strong members of the Crusader Army were working together to move the building debris from the ruins, checking whether there were any abnormalities in the manor that they had not noticed.

Dozens of bodies that lost their lives in the fire were neatly placed on a small open space not far away. The bodies that were burned to a blur and looked like black charcoal were covered with white cloth. An elderly priest was casting divine spells on the bodies over and over again.

Reina listened attentively to the old priest's prayer.

Divine spells to soothe the soul.

There was also a tall and strong young man, dressed as a Crusader, holding a huge holy water bottle in his arms, carefully scooping out clear holy water from it, and then pouring it on the white cloth covering the body.

There are many sources of void pollution, such as the direct infusion of divine power by the evil god, the accumulated pollution when the cultists and monsters caused damage, or simply being affected by the surrounding environment and things.

If mortals are seriously polluted and die before they can degenerate into monsters, they will be in the current state and cannot be pulled up again by the [Great Resurrection Spell]. The twisted power of the void will remain on their bodies, constantly emitting pollution to the surroundings until this power is exhausted.

Some believers in the Church of Seeking Knowledge have accumulated too much pollution in the process of fighting monsters, and they have no time to find a priest to purify them. Their bodies will be in this state after they commit suicide.

Believers who specialize in "picking up corpses" now have a mature assembly line processing template.

After the corpse is transported back, it will be handed over to the priests for purification. After ensuring that it is no longer dangerous, it will be handed over to the "dead" to let him take back the legendary experience on his body.

The people of the Church of the God of Radiance also have to go through this purification process.

Reina looked around carefully nearby and found an inconspicuous cellar entrance.

There should have been a small house above the cellar.

The latter had collapsed into ruins after the fire, exposing the cellar. The ruins also provided a simple cover, making it difficult to observe the situation near the cellar.

It was just right for Lena to sneak over, remove the [Stealth] state, hide at the entrance of the cellar, and only expose half of her head, carefully observing in secret.

The fierce flames burned the human body and it was difficult to distinguish their identities.

Each corpse looked twisted and weird, and the body was highly carbonized. It was almost impossible to judge the identity from the appearance, body shape, clothing, etc.

Most of the time, investigators can only roughly judge the identity of the other party by the location where the body was found.

According to the description of the news in "Trade and Fortune", the identities of the deceased were all servants serving in the manor, except for Marquis Madison, his wife, and his four children.

These hired servants and maids were usually responsible for cleaning the manor, taking care of the daily life of the Marquis and his family, and usually also part-time supervision and checking the labor of the farmers outside.

The conclusion drawn by Reina from observing the corpses through the magic of [Revelation of All Things] is similar to the information provided by the news.

Most of the corpses are ordinary people.

Their "legendary level" is basically in the single digits from Reina's perspective. In other words, they do not have any power that represents the identity of a professional.

There are four corpses that are different.

Their legendary levels are level 34 at level 3, level 21 at level 2, level 27 at level 2, and level 18 at level 1.

Obviously.

These four people are the children of Marquis Madison, and they match the news. Marquis Madison's eldest son is a level 3 warrior, and there are three second sons, two level 2, and one level 1.

The information matches.

Judging from the location of their bodies, the Glowing God Cult has obviously confirmed the identities of these four people, because they were placed in a small area alone and were not mixed with the bodies of the servants of the manor.

Reina noticed that there were some small pieces around the bodies.

Breast mirror, pocket watch, ring, bracelet, necklace...

She suddenly understood.

The people of the Glowing God Cult could not use [Revelation of All Secrets] to identify the identity of the corpse, but they could infer it directly from the situation at the scene.

The servants serving in the manor could not afford to wear so many expensive jewelry, especially many of which were blessed by divine arts or magic and had unique effects.

These things were not burned in the flames, and appeared on the corpse, which could indirectly prove the identity of the corpse.

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After carefully observing the condition of each corpse, Reina frowned slightly.

"Did I count wrongly?"

She carefully counted the number of corpses covered by white cloth from scratch:

"1, 2, 3...37, 38, 39!"

"That's right!"

According to the report of "Trade and Wealth", the manor fire caused a total of 39 deaths, and no one in the entire Marquis Manor was spared.

The body count was right.

Through the information provided by [The Secret of All Things], Reina also confirmed the identities of Marquis Madison's children and his wife one by one.

These corpses were placed together.

But Lena didn't find the body that should represent Marquis Madison!

To be precise.

Among the corpses collected and processed by the Glow God Cult, there was a corpse that was placed with Madison's children and wife. It should be the Marquis Madison himself who unfortunately died in the fire.

But when Reina turned her attention to the corpse, the information sent back to her by [The Secret of All Things] showed that this was clearly an ordinary person!

Rena didn't find one among these corpses whose legendary level reached level 5!

A bold idea emerged in my mind:

"Marquis Madison is not actually dead?!"

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There will be more at night, there will be more, there will be more