"Mr. Chief."

A young voice startled Hawkes Folly slightly, he quickly collected all his negativity, and the moment he turned around, he had returned to his unsmiling appearance.

"Siddle Excellency."

"I brought the 'outside world' you wanted."

Thoth unfolded the leather, and the message, based on the outline of a charcoal pencil, rose on the leather, converging into a flowing river, a tumbling sea, a towering mountain peak, a rolling mountain range, a row of houses, and an endless plain...... Although they are all miniatures, they are enough to shock the people of Silver City with the vastness of the world.

The old half-giant's eyes glittered with childlike curiosity, and he did not want to withdraw his gaze for a long time, but he carefully held the scroll and thanked him solemnly.

"You're welcome. Anyway, did I just bother you?"

"No need to bother, I'm just counting the newly added seals, and thanks to you, we had a great harvest that night."

"Really?" Thoth cast his gaze on the rusty gauntlet, "I thought you were remembering."

"...... you're talking about?"

When Thoth took out the "Half Circle" necklace, all of Hawkes' expressions and movements froze, and even his breathing stopped for a moment—and around his neck, there was a necklace similar to it. The two broken halves are put together to make it happen to be a complete circle.

The Cataclysm has brought everything in the Forsaken Lands to a standstill, with little change in clothing, architecture, and even traditions - rather, it is precisely because the days of living with darkness and fighting monsters are so painful that we need to hold on to what we have left of tradition to remember what it means to be human.

Thoth still remembers an interesting little tradition that he learned from the bazaar, that the vendors would deliberately polish stones and bones into broken shapes, but the two halves together would have made a whole thing, such as a shield, a beast's head, and a fruit.

"It's a talisman to bless your brothers and sisters." The vendors say, "There is no reason to buy alone, if you want to buy a pair, you can buy a pair."

Half of Hawkes' amulet was picked up from the rusty gauntlet by Amon after defeating the Ghost Rider, who was only wondering why an evil spirit was wearing a human ornament, and after seeing the necklace around Hawkes' neck, he discovered through a simple divination that the two fragments came from the skull of the same monster.

"Now it's my turn to ask questions." Thoth stared silently into Hawkes Folly's eyes, "Why did your brother become like this?"

"It's not surprising that the spirit of the Extraordinary will mutate after the demigod and become an evil spirit, and my brother was a black knight of the 'Hanged Man' path during his lifetime."

This sentence belongs to occult common sense, and it is impossible to find a fallacy, but if there is such a "not surprising", wouldn't a large number of angelic families in Sequence 3 and Sequence 4 be full of evil spirits? Thoth vomited in his heart, but his face was still as calm as water: "As early as the beginning of the Third Age, many people were aware of this problem, and the requiem ritual was also popularized, could it be that Silver City has left this knowledge behind?"

Hawkes was noncommittal, "Now than before, most people have died in the dark without knowing it, but there is no chance to lie in bed and receive the requiem ritual."

"Okay, let's get back to the topic."

Thoth took out a small bottle containing some glossy and dull particles, "It's not surprising that the high-ranking extraordinaries have become evil spirits, but only the extraordinaries of Sequence 9, Sequence 8, and Sequence 7 have also been alienated into evil spirits after death, so it's worth digging into."

"The dust left over from the dissipation of evil spirits is also a precious spiritual material, so you have collected it with great pride - please forgive me for not asking for some of it. I traced the information a little bit, and found that the owner of this dust was just a little girl in Sequence 8 before she died."

"Of course, I also considered whether this mutation was caused by the environment, after all, the environment of God's Forsaken Land is very different from the outside world, but the crow with me visited the city-state with survivors, and found that the low-rank extraordinary people there died peacefully, and there was no sign of mutation."

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In other words, Silver City is special."

Thoth said unhurriedly, "So, could you please revisit the question I just asked?"

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Duke Abraham walked through the corridors adorned with oil paintings to the royal gardens, where the laws of the solar terms were distorted, and the flowers here were not contaminated with the decay and withering of half of the winter, but were delicate and violent.

The Black Emperor was sitting at a round table of white stone reading official documents, an inkwell with a quill inserted, and a gold seal and the emperor's seal were placed in his hand.

"Bethel, you're here."

The Black Emperor put the report down, and Bethel Abraham saw a table of countless horizontal and vertical lines, the top of which read "List of casualties in the fire in Saidion, Intith Province, December 28, 32 Solomonic calendar (nobles)".

In the top row of grids, the words "name", "gender", "title", "official position", "fiefdom", "annuity", "belonging route and sequence", and "family status" are written in turn.

Their patriarch, one of the few baronies of the Empire, a Sequence 3 "Esoteric Scholar", is in the first row.

For the sake of checks and balances, even if the Hidden Sage had justifiably joined the Stiano family, the Black Emperor did not sentence them to a bloody and severe punishment, but simply condemned them with great vigour, and then expelled them from the center of power in the Empire - if the Hidden Sage threatened in the future, he could find an opportunity to recall them.

Bethel, who was thinking about the king's heart, sighed secretly - it's a pity that they couldn't wait for this day.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, another casualty list has been sorted out...... O Duke Abraham, thou grieve."

A well-dressed young man walked briskly and saluted Bethel after presenting the official document, Bethel bowed slightly, looked at his green and serious eyebrows, and asked, "Are you a boy from the Augustan family?"

"Loras Augustus, it's my honor to be remembered by you."

"Well done, Loras."

The Black Emperor looked at the newly sent list and nodded appreciatively, "You have been fighting for a long time without sleep, go down and rest."

"It is my honor to fight for the Empire, and I am ready to wait for your summons."

The young man walked backwards out of the garden, and the Black Emperor handed Bethel the fruits of his labor.

"Look at this."

This is also a list of casualties, but for civilians. Most of the nobles were born extraordinary, even if they were burned by the fire of the sun and there was not even bone marrow left, with the extraordinary characteristics of precipitation and a little divination method, their identity could be quickly determined, so the list of casualties of the nobles was quickly sorted out.

On the other hand, most of the civilians who died will only be left with a pile of ashes, and when the wind blows, there will be no ashes left, and compiling such a casualty list is as difficult as restoring an ancient painting that has been eroded by wind and rain for thousands of years - you will not only have to spend a lot of time, but also rack your brains to think about where to start.

But the order of the lord of a country is absolute, since the black emperor said that he wanted this thing, even if the people under him lost their hair, they had to bring it up, on time and on time, and never delayed.

The length of this list is about five times that of the one just now, almost dragging it to the ground, but it is not as complicated as the one of the nobles, except for the "name" and "gender", there are only "occupations", "birthplaces" and "three orders and paths of belonging" - although the complete divine path is firmly controlled by the great nobles and the royal family, in an era where it is extraordinary and so common, it is not strange for ordinary people to get low-rank potions, but they go to the back, in order to get higher-order potion formulas, They are likely to submit to a family or church.

"Dali Merkel, herb shop owner, 'The Cultivator' Sequence 9."

"Lilina Spears, tavern waiter, 'The Voyeur' Sequence 8."

"Anton Gordon, Shoemaker, 'The Voyeur' Sequence 9."

"Charles Milton, apprentice in the dyeing workshop, ordinary man."

"Jade Liddell, street performer, 'The Voyeur' Sequence 7."

……

Looking at it, Bethel discovered one thing, among the few civilian extraordinaires, "voyeurs" accounted for a considerable number.

"Hidden eyeliner."

The Emperor voiced the Duke's speculation, "In order to carry out the surveillance mission, they deliberately got very close to the Stiano Mansion, and the time of the crime was four o'clock in the morning, and many people were consumed by the rapidly spreading solar fire while they were still asleep."

Bethel was silent for a moment, if the hotel where his reckless child had stayed hadn't been two blocks away from Stiano's House, he wouldn't have had the good fortune of being woken up by the smell of smoke, and he wouldn't have had the time to recite his name.

"And what about this?"

Like a trick, a candle-flame of light appeared above Bethel's palm, faintly expanding, but whenever it wanted to "make a mistake", it was as if an invisible hand was holding it, so that its heat could never be completely radiated - and when its heat was completely glowing, in less than half a minute, a block could be turned into charcoal.

"Bang-"

The shadow of order grew from Solomon's fingertips, swallowing up every glimmer of blazing light, and with a slight sound, the restless flame was completely extinguished, leaving only a faint smoke.

The Emperor sneered, "It's just a stolen light, how can it compete with the true sun?"

(Recently, I have to prepare a paper, and the frequency will be reduced)