After all, there was no way for Koster and the others to rest for a few days. The next morning, Baron Dennis woke up and ran to Koster's room screaming, "Lord Koster, Lord Koster, is the monster dead?"

Tired-looking, Kerst rolled over and covered his ears with a pillow, not wanting to ignore Baron Dennis and let him scream. The clerk was outside the house, looking at Feida and Rika with embarrassed faces, quite embarrassed. This time out, everyone has actually seen what Baron Dennis is, so it's no surprise.

However, in the end, Kester was not able to rest well, because San Jose officials finally responded to Baron Dennis. A small group of San Jose soldiers, led by a court magician, came to the remote town of Donghai Town, and the efficiency was unexpectedly high, and Baron Dennis estimated that it would take more than ten days to have a response, otherwise, he would not have been in a hurry to seek help from Kerth.

Kerst, Feda, and Rika, as witnesses to the incident, were interrogated by the investigation team, along with Baron Dennis.

The leading court magician, called Pete, is an intermediate court magician, and after a brief chat with Cast, they actually found out that they have a mutual friend, that is, Sytie Mage, and after learning that Kerst is Lolita's friend, and also knows Setie Mage, Pete's attitude suddenly improved a lot.

A number of townspeople in Donghai Town confirmed that a "flying monster that can scream a woman has wreaked havoc here many times, causing many casualties", Pete and the officers and townspeople who led the team chatted again, and at the same time, combined with the statements of Koster and others, they roughly figured out the situation.

Given that the monster had been killed and dropped into the long sea, Pete also gave up on the idea of finding the monster's corpse. Here, Kerst did not tell the truth exactly what was going on, and Baron Dennis fainted on the sea cliff at the right time, which made it much easier for Kerth.

Mage Pete seemed to know something about the situation, and when he understood the situation, he asked the soldiers to gather evidence while he dragged Koster to the room for a secret conversation.

After listening to what Mage Pete said, Kist understood why this time, the army and the court mage came faster than expected.

It turned out that after returning from Desik, Mage Setty, with Pete and Angelina, reported the dark magic events that happened in Desik's country, as well as the organization of Dark Rising, to Archmage Merlin and the San Jose cabinet.

Unlike the Desic Empire, due to the existence of palace magicians in the country, and at the same time, Setie was on the scene in White Rock City at the time, the San Jose cabinet had a higher vigilance against the organization of Dark Rising, and in San Jose, some time ago, an investigation was also conducted.

As expected, this dark organization also has some activities in San Jose, and it is still quite active. Many of the organization's lower-level personnel were found out by the court magicians. Although it is not yet painful, it is clear that the activities of Dark Rise in San Jose have converged a lot.

Therefore, when the report of Tokai Town about the "man-eating monster" was put on the desk of the higher-level county guard, the county guard, who knew the inside story, sent the report to the San Jose cabinet as soon as possible, and the cabinet, which was already wary of the rise of darkness, also immediately sent an investigation team led by Mage Pete.

Hearing the familiar name "Dark Rising", Kerst patted his head: yes, that monster is so strange, and it is really something that the evil organization of Dark Rising can do. This reminded him of a few years ago, in the Kaman royal capital, there were also evil summons of dark mages there, which were also infinitely powerful.

After relaying the situation to Ferda and Rika, Master Pete told Kist to be patient, as their San Jose investigation team was quite experienced and should be able to reach a conclusion soon.

However, Master Pete was also very curious, how could the three of them come to such a remote place as Tokai Town when they were not in Kyoto City. Nick snorted, only saying that he was accompanying Miss Feida to find clues about her family, and learned that Feida was an orphan of San Jose, so Master Pete didn't say anything more.

Soon the investigation had news, a San Jose soldier came to Master Pete and whispered a few words, Koster saw Pete's face immediately became serious, sent the soldier away, Pete said to Koster, "Master Koster, let's go together, they found a clue five miles west from here." ”

To the west of Donghai Town, there is also a small forest and a small mountain range, and the soldiers of San Jose are indeed very capable, and in a short period of time, they established an investigation area centered on Donghai Town, and soon discovered the abnormality here.

In addition to Pete and Kerst and others, Baron Dennis with his clerk also followed the team. Master Pete opened his mouth and asked him, "What is the situation with this mountain range?"

Baron Dennis thought for a moment, "There are hardly any people coming to this mountain range, there used to be a military camp of the San Jose army stationed here, which was withdrawn many years ago, but the townspeople are used to not coming here, so it has always been inaccessible. Maybe some hunters will come here, but I haven't been here anyway. ”

Kerst stepped forward, "Mage Pete, what did you find?"

Pete smiled, "The more inaccessible the place, the more problematic it is, ordinary people may not be able to see anything, but in the eyes of experienced investigators, there are traces in inaccessible places, then it is called abnormal." The hunters of your Merchant Alliance Adventurer's Guild are called hunters because they are good at tracking tracks. ”

As he spoke, everyone had approached the forest, and the San Jose soldiers who came first had already opened a path in the woods, and the soldiers who led the team said that it was here that they found traces of people, and then at the end of the path, there was a cave, and in the cave, there was a clue to be found.

Kester suddenly remembered how the people of Darkness Rising, or these people who played dark magic, in the cave in Sunset Mountain, liked to stay in this kind of place so much.

"By the way, you won't find a blood formation in the cave, will you?" said Koster, with a flash of inspiration in his mind.

Pete gave Kester a strange look, "Master Koster, I didn't expect you to be a prophet! ”

Koster scratched his head embarrassedly, "I'll just say it casually." ”

The cave, at the end of the path, behind a small dirt slope, has an entrance more than one person wide, and if you don't pay special attention, ordinary people will definitely not think that there will be people living here.

"With such a small entrance, how can that monster get in and out?" Feida, who followed behind, suddenly curious.

Pete pointed to the top, "Over there, there's an exit, the monster, it's out from above, it can fly." ”

Although the entrance is not large, the space inside the cave is much larger than expected, and many San Jose investigators and soldiers are busy inside, collecting relevant evidence, which must be brought back to Kyoto City and handed over to the court magicians for study.

Here, it seems that many people have lived, and the whole cave is divided into two levels by a stone staircase, the lower level has many furniture, and on the upper level, Koster sees a row of thick iron railings, tightly embedded in the stone wall.

"If I'm not mistaken, the monster you saw is supposed to be locked behind these iron bars. ”

Climbed to the upper floor, Kerst and Pete across the iron railing, at a glance saw the huge pentagram behind, no need Pete to say anything, it was not the first time to see Kerst, he recognized that this was indeed a blood array, in the gully of the pentagram, the investigators dug up some dried blood.

"It's really the style of Dark Rising, this monster is synthesized with magic in the blood array. Master Pete concluded.

Subsequent findings confirmed Mage Pete's conclusions and Kester's previous suspicions.

Deep inside the cave, investigators found a buried trace, and when they dug it up, they made a startling discovery. In the burial traces, several mutilated "corpses" and a coffin were found.

The "corpse" is not human, but of several animals that are missing arms and legs. These include: several falcons with their feet chopped off, the paws and forelimbs of several berserk bears, and half a skinned bison. And when the coffin was opened, it was even more shocking.

Inside was a corpse with a missing head, and it was a shriveled old woman, her hands and feet were close to decay, but the wrinkles of her skin could still be seen like chicken skin.

In the minds of Kerth, Feda, Rika and Baron Dennis, the "woman's head" of the monster appeared for the first time. As if thinking of something, Feida covered her mouth and rushed to the corner, and Rika and Dennis's faces were a little pale.

"You say that the monster has a woman's head, I guess this is it. Pete was calmer, leaning over to search the woman's body as he spoke. Koster said yes on the side, and he didn't feel very good.

Mage Pete soon made a new discovery, and in the woman's clothes, he pulled out a roll of parchment, the top one of which seemed to have been "cut off". And on the parchment underneath, there are some traces of writing.

"Hey, there's a word on it?" Pete was a little surprised, but quickly regained his composure, "Lord Chester, Baron Dennis, let's take a look, what's written on it?" ”

Both Kerst and Baron Dennis gathered around, and Rika ran to take care of Feida, who was not feeling well. Pete saw that everyone was ready, and then he put the parchment on the ground and said aloud, "Manifest Magic!"

It was not the first time that he had seen the wonderful effect of "tracking magic", and looked at the parchment expectantly, and sure enough, under the effect of the tracking magic, a row of words and a large number of scribbled and illegible records gradually appeared on the parchment.

"Can any of you tell me what Halpie is?" After reading for a long time, Baron Dennis barely recognized a few words, a little surprised and puzzled.

"Oh my God, this woman is not a victim, this woman is the one who started it, she is a dark mage!" exclaimed Pete!

Everyone present looked back at Mage Pete in shock.