"Is it a delusion......

Minerma's gaze still scanned back and forth, and she subconsciously pulled out the blood-colored heavy sword.

She could feel the anomalous fluctuations in mana here.

She wasn't a high-level professional in the non-department, so she couldn't tell what kind of magic was causing those magic fluctuations, but in her experience, the level of that magic should not be low.

Seeing the murder weapon, the people around hurriedly dispersed a little farther.

According to the custom of adventurers, weapons should not be displayed at will in such a supply town, and the lord of Snow River also made it clear that fighting was forbidden in the city, but the female warrior was obviously strong enough to ignore these rules, and perhaps did not know these at all.

The new armor on Minelma's body continues the previous hideous style, with heavy shoulder armor and knee-length gauntlets with sharp arc-shaped cast thorns, which can be turned into deadly weapons at any time in close combat, because the surface of the armor is made with extremely high craftsmanship layers of fine edges and corners interlaced with each other, and the whole armor has changed from bright silver to dark silver color, which at first glance looks dull and dull and looks a little rough and cheap.

But no one would underestimate this armor because of this, and no one would despise this warrior because of it.

Not to mention the blood-colored sword, this is the magic dazzle that always lights up under her feet, presumably in order to support the weight of the armor and avoid crushing the stone road here, to be able to wear a pair of armor of such weight, this warrior's strength is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Minerma slowly hung the heavy sword back on her back.

"Is it just a coincidence, just a passerby using a magic trick......

"But the magic fluctuations that dissipated so quickly ......"

After a few breaths, she didn't notice a suspicious figure, shook her head, and finally refocused her attention on her original target, the young herb stall owner.

If the file is correct, he is the author of the gray report, a supernumerary investigator of the Temple of Nature.

Her eyes were still focused on her, but she didn't care, walked up to the young stall owner, showed him the flaming sword on the ring, and then took out the gray-white report and asked, "You handed in this record?"

Before the stall owner could reply, Minelma jerked her head and glanced around again with a sharp gaze.

But apart from the awe-inspiring and curious gazes around her, she still found nothing.

She looked coldly at the young man.

The herb stall owner hurriedly took the report and carefully confirmed it.

He winked at each other, trying to show that it was inconvenient for the other party to talk here, but the female warrior didn't seem to care at all, and he had to reply in a low voice: "Although it was recorded more than a year ago, it was indeed written by me. I remember the man who bought me an arrowtail plant for a special wound, and he carried one on his back—"

"That's it!"

Minelma, who had a gloomy face, snorted coldly.

A circle of bright frost debris erupted around her, showing a dazzling brilliance in the sunlight, and the people around her retreated again, and the eyes that had been looking at this place lowered their heads in amusement.

Even the garrison of the town to maintain order can only watch from a distance without saying a word, not to mention these adventurers with different strengths, together it is estimated that they are not enough to be slashed by a sword, looking at her appearance, I am afraid that it is not a small source, it is not a few famous legions on the border, or a big force like the temple, but it is not something that these grass-headed adventurers can afford to provoke.

The young herb stall owner also looked at the law enforcement officer with a thin ice.

Minerma pretended to think, and without a trace, she released a few long threads of perception, but she still didn't get anything.

She looked at the frightened young stall owner, and finally said cautiously: "Pack up your things and leave with me, it can be as short as a few months or a year, I need you to go to a safer place." ”

Glancing at his cargo, she added: "All losses are covered by the law enforcement team." ”

Even according to the rule structure, the people of the law enforcement team did not have direct leadership and command over a temple reconnaissance like him, but under the divine sword of fire, the young man did not dare to hesitate, and directly rolled up the paving and left in the footsteps of Minerma.

In the afternoon sun, the two of them gradually walked away and disappeared at the end of the street.

After a while, the street became lively again, and the pedestrians looked at the roadside stalls again, and the vendors who set up the stalls also bowed their heads and talked eagerly, and the corners of their mouths hung on their smiles.

After all, gossip is also one of the things adventurers love the most.

Brand finally reappeared.

He looked extraordinarily low-key, having obscured the blood in those terrifying eyes, and looked in the direction in which Minerma and the young man had disappeared, and the already thin blood in his field of vision was getting farther and farther away.

"It's a member of the law enforcement team...... he muttered.

"She was preempted here, I don't know where the next blood clue is......"

Prophets will never see more than one fragment when they look into the future, and the effectiveness of [Vengeful Blood] should be more than enough to reveal this clue, but if they are too far away, they will definitely not be able to detect the already thin blood.

The trail he was chasing in the summer disappeared into the depths of the Frost Mountains, which was a relatively close foothold, so he was the first to come here to investigate, but he didn't expect to be taken away by Minerma first.

"It's a little tricky......"

……

……

Taking off Morin's warm hand and facing the two stinging glances on the councilor's seat, Emneau stepped up to the podium.

The stage lit up with her identity as a witness.

No one cheered and applauded, for Councillor Yarra had already mentioned a few words about her origins, and everyone involuntarily fell silent, ready to listen to the sad plight of this unfortunate girl.

The sun was shining, and Emino shrunk under her cloak, her brown eyes flashing with a bleak past.

She glanced at the Mo Lin people at the head of the house, her eyes swept over the public sitting area, the concerned and curious looks of those enthusiastic residents of the royal capital, and finally bowed her head to show courtesy, and said: "I will be responsible for what I said below, everything is my real experience, and any emotional color only represents my personal feelings." ”

Then she stiffly bowed in the direction of the councillor's seat, and slowly recounted those distant memories:

"My name is Aemirno, and I was born in a small village called Irma, which is located in a beautiful valley with a clear stream reflected in the blue sky and a breeze blowing through the treetops. At that time, I could not read the map of the village, but later I learned that it was a small valley on the edge of the Sigh Mountains, where the calm and waveless Black River flowed for thousands of miles into the Dead Sea......"

"The people of the village live a quiet and long life, and the old people say that life here has been like this since many, many years ago, and I thought it would continue like this until many, many years later, until I became an old man. But one day, a large group of skeleton soldiers rushed into the valley and brutally destroyed the village under the leadership of a corpse witch......"

Her eyes grew moist, but she still spoke word by word:

"Not only that, but they also slaughtered indiscriminately. There were no weapons in the village, so the adults had to defend themselves against the scimitars and spears with farm tools, but they were quickly routed. My parents were also killed to protect me, and I saw theirs,"

Her voice choked for a moment, and then she took a deep breath: "Seeing their corpses in front of me being aroused by that corpse witch with death magic, slowly standing up from the pool of blood, I screamed and struggled, and the village chief's grandfather desperately pulled me away, taking me and a few other survivors to flee with me......"

She was silent for a moment, as if she was resting, and the whole room was silent.

"Originally, we wanted to go to other villages, but the nearby villages were also burned, there were black blood stains everywhere, but there was not a single body in sight, I kept crying, crying, and the village chief's grandfather comforted me and said that I would be safe if I left the land of the dead......"

"But the border of the country of the dead is so far away, and the village chief's grandfather is so old, how can there be any chance......" She shook her head stunned: "We have been on the run for a long time, but we may not have been able to leave the Sighing Mountains before we were caught...... Slay. ”

Merlin saw the pale Aeno on the stage raise her neck, revealing the terrible scar.

There was a low exclamation in the public seating area, and everyone's breathing seemed to become heavier.

Aeno slowly finished her story in the valley, rested for a moment, and continued to speak.

The boy noticed that her voice had become hard and cold: "When I woke up, I was already in the dungeon of the Blood Staff Lord, and I found myself transformed into a vampire of the dead, the fifth sequence of the dead. ”

She reached out to catch a ray of sunlight, pain flashed in her eyes, and her pale palms quickly turned red like burns.

"The Blood Staff made me learn the magic of evoking corpses, and I didn't want to, so he locked me in a dungeon, and then ......"

Emino slowly brought her to life in the Blood Staff Lord's castle.

From getting along with the henchmen of the Blood Staff, to secretly participating in the academy admissions assessment, and then running to Iluvita under the pursuit of the lord, the experience is recounted in detail. Of course, as they had agreed, the accusations against Speaker Augustus were omitted, and the accusations against the residents who did not yet know the true face of the Speaker did nothing but reduce their own credibility.

And Merlin knew that the old fellow's eyes had been on Aeno.

"I really want to stomp on that hypocritical old fellow, and I am sick to see the sadness on his face. Marcus muttered.

"A curse should be placed on his eyes. Maureen chimed in.

He looked warily at Barron and was relieved to see that the young Kadir was so absorbed in Emino's speech that he didn't pay attention to the Speaker in the middle of the seating.

Since there are councilors present in such an open-air venue, even if you can't see the armed guards, you must have activated various defensive magic enchantments, which can deal with most accidents, and if you really want to do it, the end will definitely be extremely miserable.

Besides, the deceased councillors didn't look like they were to be messed with.

“…… I survived the curse of the Blood Scepter Lord and entered Iluvita to live and study, but I will not forget the butcher's knives they raised against my loved ones, the villages that burned down. I went to the temple to complain to my lord, but the priests told me there was nothing they could do about it. ”

Aewen Norr paused for a moment: "Because the influence of the Holy Alliance on the realm of the dead is too weak, there is no way to punish those sinners, and there is no way to give justice to those innocent villagers. ”

"Even if it was agreed in the original code of order that the lord had the obligation to ensure the safety of the lords, even if the deceased lords committed the exact opposite atrocities, they would not be punished, and no one would even know about it. She said firmly:

"Because the kingdom of the dead is far away from the alliance, far from the temple, it will act so recklessly. ”

"So I choose to stand up, and with my experience, and with the experience of many people who have suffered the same misfortune as me, and with the experience of those who are still living in the land of the dead, I ask you to support Councillor Yara's proposal to strengthen the supervision of that dark land. ”

Without looking at Speaker Augustus, she bowed in the direction of the councillor's seat.

She bowed to the public area again, and the audience burst into applause, not warm but neat, representing the residents' sympathetic encouragement and support for her.

"That's the end of my story. ”

Aeno stood on the stage, waiting for the questioner to ask a question.

Morin let out a long sigh and relaxed.

The little vampire's narration was more moving than the practice, and there were no surprises, and the questions that followed were also arranged by Councillor Yara, and those questions had already been prepared by Emino in advance, and he looked at the questioner, a middle-aged priest with the insignia of the Temple of Nature tattooed on his chest, and a short beard.

But it was Augustus' voice that sounded first.

He looked very angry, stood up and looked at the four deceased councillors on the side, and asked in a deep voice with a grim face, "Why did this happen? Is this how your lords of the realm of the dead manage their territory?!"

Augustus already had a military temperament that was not angry and self-assured, and this question was really like a landslide.

But Morin, who knew the truth, almost didn't spit it out, Marcas spit, and even the always calm Tilna snorted softly, and Barron's head was bruised, and it was obvious that he had endured it extremely hard.

"The lords of our realm of the dead rarely disturb the villages of the living, and if a lord dares to commit such an atrocity, even the noblest and most ancient lineage will be punished severely," replied the Corpse Witch Councillor with righteous words, turning to the male vampire councilor next to him, "Sigh Mountains...... You're familiar with the area, has anything like this ever happened?"

The handsome-faced vampire stood up, nodded his apology to the Speaker, and bowed slightly politely to the public sitting area before he said to Aeno, "First of all, I'm sorry for your experience, and I'm sure most of what you're saying is true. ”

"Huh?" Morin in the audience was stunned for a moment, thinking that this councilor's true conscience had been discovered, but then he heard him say:

"As far as I know, it was a conflict between two small lords over territory, and it did affect the surrounding villages of the living, killing and injuring many civilians, but you said that they can do whatever they want, I will never agree, the country of the dead will not tolerate such a thing, those two lords have already been sent to the shallow sea. ”

There was a low sound of exclamation around, the legend about that mysterious shallow sea has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, sinking in it is equivalent to the punishment of taking the name, it is the most severe punishment in the kingdom of the dead, the tortured person is surrounded by nameless fire and gradually forgets everything, and can never rest in that netherworld sea.

"Such a lord should indeed be severely punished. ”

Augustus said with some satisfaction, and he sat back in his seat.

Seeing that this was probably what Marcus had said before, the common method used by politicians to turn big things into small things, Aeno sneered and said toughly: "But when I escaped a year ago, the Lord of the Blood Staff was still alive and well. ”

"Oh, that's your misunderstanding, although you were summoned by the Blood Staff, it was the two minor lords on the edge of his realm who were at war with each other, and this matter had nothing to do with him. The vampire councillor replied slowly:

"Of course, I don't remember the names of those two juniors, but if I need to verify it, I think there are detailed records kept in the Punishment King Hall by the shallow sea, and anyone can find out where the two lords sank in the shallow sea. ”

"You can take them out and have a look. He laughed cruelly:

Perhaps they have not forgotten their sins. ”

"If only two lords are fighting, why did the village chief's grandfather take me so far, but all the villages I saw on the road were burned?!" Equino asked, "If only the other two lords are fighting, why would the war spread to the territory of the Blood Staff Lord." ”

"Maybe you haven't gotten far enough. The councillor said with a blank face, "You yourself mentioned that you may not have left the Sigh Mountains, and that the conflict was indeed widespread, so you were sentenced to death." ”

"And you should know that most of the land of the dead is still inhabited by the living, and your experience is tragic but it is just an isolated case, affected by the war, and the perpetrators have been punished. ”

Aeno looked at him coldly, and said no more.

She has already seen that even if she continues to argue, it will only give the other party more opportunities to clear her responsibility.

"Ahem," Rep. Yarra interrupted, unable to sit still, either:

"Continuing with the process of the hearing, ask the questioner to ask questions about the experience of the witnesses. ”

The deceased MP returned to his seat.

The short-bearded questioner priest stood up, walked up to the stage with a paper manuscript of the record, and asked:

"You just said that you were aroused by a lord named 'Blood Staff'?"

"Yes. ”

"You also say that you [became] a dead person after being aroused?" the priest asked again.

"Damn!" Morin's heart tightened: "This questioner has been bought off by the speaker!"