Hellram looked at Yieta, whose face was distorted and who was tied to the platform, with a look of pity on his face, but his expression soon became firm again. He turned to look at Lin En and asked.

"You don't seem surprised?"

"Surprising? I'm afraid it was a little bit, but there is only one great wizard in Yieta Harbor, right?" Seeing that Ram didn't seem to have any intention of attacking him, Lin En responded calmly.

The moment he saw the other person, all the doubts in Lin En's mind were resolved.

Anyone who can gather so many three-ring wizards, form the [Faceless Men], and create a virtual realm must be a great wizard.

However, Lin En had previously thought that this matter was related to the evil wizard Merck. After all, his name was signed by him in many of the psychic books collected by Ladakh, and the soul-devouring magic circle was also created by Merck.

Just think about it now, there are too many unnatural things in Yieta Harbor. When the parliament completely banned the research of psychic magic, an organization like the Faceless Men was born here, whose entire members are psychic wizards.

The Bloody Thorn force formed by North and others is too large. Not only does it have six three-ring wizards as core members, it also has more than ten formal wizards and hundreds of wizard apprentices. Even the sheriff Leia has some unclear connection with the Bloody Thorn.

Add to that the chaotic scene of numerous magic workshops in the southern city...

Either Herram, the ruler of the harbor town, is too incompetent, or the other party is deliberately letting it go.

Now it seems to be the latter! "So, North's actions today were also instructed by you?" Lin En asked.

"No, that's just his own idea. North is probably planning to take advantage of my absence to use the Soul Devouring Formation to complete a breakthrough and escape from my control. That's all." Helram replied concisely.

But Lin En didn't believe a word of it. Since Helram was standing here, it proved that North's little plan was still within the other party's expectations.

In other words, Helram deliberately spread the news to let North know that he had left the Yieta Harbor, so that he could boldly go hunt the Eye of Death and set up the soul-devouring magic circle at the same time.

Poor North is like a white glove.

Lin En could imagine that without his interference, North would most likely be successfully promoted to a great wizard, and then he would find that the Soul-Devouring Formation was inexplicably out of control and spread to the entire South City, causing greater chaos. Suddenly, Ram would rush in at the last moment, kill the culprit, and thus quell the riots.

Abandoning North and the entire Scarlet Thorn as pawns, using the promotion of a three-ring wizard to give an explanation to the parliament and remove himself from this incident, Hellram's ruthlessness and meticulousness are undoubtedly revealed.

“So, you were the one who wrote the letter inviting me to join the Faceless Men?” Lin En asked again.

Hellram did not answer, but suddenly asked, "What should I call you...Lin? Carl? Or...Evil Mage Merck?"

Although Lin En appeared in front of him in the image of Ladakh at this moment, Helram did not use a person's appearance as the criterion for judgment, but distinguished him through magic.

"When you accepted Rawl's challenge at the training ground two weeks ago, you were still just a wizard apprentice, right?" Although Helram was asking, his tone was very affirmative.

The essential difference between an apprentice and a formal wizard lies in the element of magical mimicry. This is something that everyone in the entire wizarding land knows, but only great wizards can perceive the subtle differences in the nature of magic between the two, which is most obvious during battle.

However, Lin En exceeded his expectations. As a wizard apprentice, he displayed the [Ice Field] which was more powerful than ordinary three-ring magic, and mastered a lot of new knowledge, which was obviously not something a wizard apprentice could do.

Hellram could only think of one possibility, that is, possession! Three years ago, he had volunteered to go to the North with two great wizards to destroy the entire psionic school, but unlike his two colleagues, he had another idea - that is to obtain the research results of the evil wizard Merck on psionics! Although he encountered a lot of trouble along the way, Hellram still got what he wanted in the end.

However, due to the previous fierce battle, many precious magic books were burned, so many research materials on psychic powers were incomplete, which led to the creation of "Faceless Men" and "Bloody Thorns".

Hellram carefully selected more than ten three-ring wizards who were eager to break through, spread the psionic information he had obtained before, and let these people conduct psionic research in secret on his behalf.

Just as he expected, with the continuous efforts and countless bloodshed and sacrifices of North and others, in just three years, they restored the means of setting up the soul-devouring array and the method of transferring the soul into another body.

All that was missing was the material to replace the mind flayer's blood, and another more critical technology.

At this critical moment, Lin En suddenly appeared at Yieta Harbor and brought two very important things!

An aerospace airship that can defeat the Eye of Death, and a witch's body that has lost its soul but is still well preserved.

This looked perfect, like a gift specially prepared for him. It was precisely because of this that Hellram felt a little bit of fear...

Just like the [Bloody Thorns] in his hand, which was like a puppet, at that moment he vaguely suspected that he was just a member of the game.

In that great battle, everyone believed that the evil wizard Merck was dead, but Hellram, who had read a large number of psychic books, had a hunch that the other party was not really dead.

In the past three years, the evil wizard Merck seemed to have disappeared completely. Perhaps he has left the wizarding land, but one day he will come back!

Hellram stared at Lin En in front of him. Although the magic fluctuations did not match at all, there was still a possibility of change after the fusion of souls, so he had to suspect that the person in front of him was the evil wizard Merck! After all, the timing of his appearance was too coincidental! Facing Hellram's doubts, Lin En refuted and said. "If I were the evil wizard Merck, a former great wizard, I would never show a flaw in the training ground and expose my identity."

"Obviously you are mistaken. I am Lin En, and just Lin En, that's all." Lin En said firmly.

(End of this chapter)