"Speaking of the extraordinary state, in the latest investigation, it seems that the Tribunal has also confirmed that the Terror Devouring Wolf was not in good condition during the battle, and there is indeed a possibility of ability defects."
"Oh... Can you tell me about the progress of the investigation?"
Listening to Evie's words, Amanda opened her mouth again with a curious look on her face, and Evie also answered silently.
"In the incident at the Chant Church, after the Devouring Wolf was killed, Sister Vanya was not idle. After initially treating Prince Harold's wounds, she immediately reorganized the Chant Church's armed forces after the Red Cross War and contacted Pritt to launch a large-scale hunt for the remnants of the Wolf Blood Society throughout the city. Many remnants of the cult were eliminated or captured. The captured remnants of the Wolf Blood Society were eventually taken over by the Inquisition Investigation Team that arrived later.
"After the investigation team of the Inquisition received these cult remnants, they immediately began to check their identities and torture them. Most of them were apprentices with little intelligence value. There was only one big fish, the White Crescent. He and another White Crescent resisted capture. In the end, he was successfully detained, while the other White Crescent died in the resistance. The three White Crescents who directly attacked the Chant Church ended up with one death, one arrest, and one missing."
"Oh...Chalky-level cadres, in this kind of operation, even if they are just serving as assistants to the Red Army or performing some key tasks, they can squeeze out a lot of useful information... But considering the tolerance of the Beast Path, it is difficult to torture them to make them speak..."
Amanda spoke thoughtfully, and after listening to her, Evie nodded and continued to respond.
"Yes, the people in the Inquisition used all kinds of torture on the werewolf, but they couldn't make him surrender. Instead, they taunted and tortured him. The torturers increased the intensity of the torture and launched a continuous torture that lasted for six hours, but they couldn't make the werewolf give in. After his language ability was restored, he continued to taunt. It can be seen that he is extremely loyal to the belief in the Gluttonous King and extremely loyal to the Wolf Blood Society.
"After judging that the werewolf was a diehard who could not be interrogated by torture, the interrogation team of the Inquisition took the final measure. After using the Chant Church to arrange the soul-binding ceremony, the interrogation team executed the werewolf and then directly interrogated the soul in the form of a spiritual trial. Because the investigation team failed to summon the soul of the high-level Wolfblood Society member who died in the incident, they believed that the Wolfblood Society gave the Chalk Red Society members a high-level soul protection in this operation, so they also arranged this soul-binding ceremony at the highest level they could."
Evie said silently, and listening to her words, Amanda also said with a slight sigh.
"Spiritual trial... this is really the final torture method of the Tribunal that never fails. After all, the souls of the dead will definitely speak and will never lie. What they say is absolutely true and known to their own will. It's just that sometimes the price is a bit high, and occasionally it will create embarrassing scenes for those guys in the Tribunal... But in fact, such scenes generally do not occur when judging cultists..."
Amanda said this. The embarrassing scene she mentioned was a wrongful imprisonment. In the era when the Inquisition was prevalent, judges could convict people on trumped-up charges and then torture them, resulting in a very high rate of wrongful convictions. Almost all of these wrongly convicted people were subjected to severe torture by the Inquisition. Most of them were directly forced to confess under the pain, while a very small number of people insisted that they were wronged even under various tortures. Some of these people would force the Inquisition to enter the final stage of the trial, the spiritual inquisition.
After the execution, the court will directly interrogate the soul of the prisoner. If the interrogation is correct, it can be confirmed that he is a heretic. However, if the interrogation is wrong, even if the soul insists that it is innocent, it is equivalent to completely overturning the entire case. The inquisitor responsible for investigating and interrogating heretics is not only responsible for the entire case progress, but also for the person who was wrongly killed. For the wronged person, although he is innocent, he is already dead. Although the inquisitor in charge of this case was later punished, the great negative impact of this wrongful death on the reputation of the church is difficult to eliminate.
In the past, there were many such examples in the trials of lower-class extraordinary nobles and common people. During the Turbidity War, the Tribunal was forced to cancel the trial process and directly announce the degree of punishment, which led to even more serious consequences.
On the balcony, Evie continued to respond to Amanda's words with a calm attitude.
"The spiritual trial of the werewolf soon produced results. He confessed everything he knew. His name was Bill Max, and he used the alias Vaughn Hunter for Operation Tivian. His boss, the Red Terror Wolf who died in the battle, was named Duval, one of the elders of the Wolfblood Society.
"Through the werewolf's confession, we roughly understood their purpose. The purpose of their attack on the Chant Church was to seize a ton of scriptures sealed in a forbidden library. After they heard the intelligence that the Chant Church lacked red power, they began to prepare for many days. It was not until the day of the action that their preparations were completed.
"According to what the werewolf said, among these preparations, an extremely important part is the bait. Those bait puppets that can almost perfectly simulate the extraordinary reactions of the Red-level Devouring Demon Wolf are the most advanced technological products of the Wolf Blood Society. They are obtained by corroding and transforming ordinary beast-shaped creatures through the fresh essence and flesh of the Devouring Demon Wolf. However, this technology is not yet mature and has certain defects. Providing fresh essence and flesh to the Devouring Demon Wolf will cause its abilities to be damaged within a short period of time. This is unavoidable under the current technology of the Wolf Blood Society.
"During the attack, the one who provided the bait puppet with flesh and blood was none other than the Devouring Demon Wolf Duval, who later participated in the attack. Because the flesh and blood had to be kept fresh, he could not spend time slowly repairing the damage by removing it in advance, so he could only continue the operation with the damage. In their original plan, there would be no direct battle in this operation, so even if Duval's ability was damaged to a certain extent, it would not affect the overall situation. However, even so, Elder Duval had some resistance to the use of this technology, and even negotiated privately with other elders of the Wolf Blood Society, but finally accepted the result that the removal operation was performed by Duval himself, and Bill was responsible for external emergency response at the time.
"According to the latest interrogation intelligence, the reason why the Devouring Demon Wolf did not show the ability to go berserk before death was probably because he used an unfamiliar technique to remove the essence of his flesh and blood, and a series of unexpected circumstances that were not planned ultimately led to Duval's death.
"After this information was obtained through torture, the Court of Inquisition seemed to have given up the idea of continuing to put pressure on Sister Vanya. In addition, Prince Harold, who had just barely recovered, also provided his confession to the investigation team, which was consistent with Sister Vanya's report. After Bill Max and Prince Harold's statements echoed each other, there was no problem with Sister Vanya's report. Due to face issues, they will not cancel the charges in the short term, but they will not continue to investigate."
Evie continued to respond to Amanda's report. After listening to her words, Amanda thought for a while and nodded, then continued to speak.
"New technology? It's really inspiring that a group of people with latent violent disorder are engaged in technology development. It doesn't seem surprising that there are many problems in the process... If these are true, then the Wolf Blood Society should have learned a lesson. Don't rush to practice unfamiliar technology. However, with their temperament, they probably won't learn from it even if they have learned a lesson."
With the slightest smile, Amanda continued, and she continued to look at Evie to speak.
"Since we have already come to this stage of soul-trial, the information that the werewolf has provided must be more than this."
"Yes, according to Bill Max's confession, their operation this time also involved another party in the Afterbirth Cult, the Filthy Order, who also participated. Not only did they directly send a white man to join the operation, they also provided Duval with a 'gift', a... parasite..."
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