Chapter 158 Suspect Aleister
At around 1:00 AM, gunshots and explosions rang out, followed by a huge fire.
Although the campus of the Royal Law University is large, the knights patrolling at night quickly noticed the movement there.
When he arrived at the scene and found that the lawn in front of No. 14 Ronin Street was dry and burning, with corpses scattered in front of the door, bloodstains on the door, and the iconic armored and rotten flesh left on the lawn after the demon dog died, he immediately realized that this was no longer a problem that he, a second-level supervisor, could handle.
He turned and ran without hesitation. About twenty minutes later, the inspectors arrived. Before that, the school workers had already received the call and arrived to put out the fire.
At the Knights' request, the scene was completely preserved except for extinguishing the fire. No unnecessary movement was made.
Because the content of the call was very serious, the scale of the inspection bureau this time was quite large.
At two o'clock in the morning, twelve inspectors arrived riding on griffins, fully armed.
"These people should be demonologists."
The moment they saw the scene, a middle-aged woman wearing a monocle, who was leading the group, immediately made a judgment: "I see the aura of ritual magic."
In her sight, two of these people were shining with the protective aura unique to ritual spells.
She took a closer look and confirmed, "The ritual effect hasn't ended yet. The battle must have happened not long ago."
"Director Taiya, look here."
A young male supervisor squatted on the ground. Wearing leather gloves, he picked up a wisp of shimmering red dust and said, "This should be fire essence."
"Yeah, I see."
The new female director nodded. "Judging from the traces, it was the flames of the Path of Devotion that killed them. The original power of the flames shouldn't have been that great, so they must have been amplified by the use of Fire Essence."
"Chief, there's no one inside!"
The inspector who went to investigate the house also returned and reported the news: "But there are signs of damage... Maybe a battle took place inside!"
"I'll go take a look."
The director nodded and asked the janitor and knight nearby, "Who lives here? Is it a teacher?"
"It's a student."
"It is Aiwas Moriarty," replied the knight.
Hearing this, Taiya was stunned for a moment and his expression became serious.
She confirmed, "Is it the decorated Aiwass Moriarty?"
"How many Moriartys are there, Ms. Taiya?" the knight responded.
"That's bad..."
Taiya muttered to himself, frowning: "Is this revenge?"
She called out to the back, "Mr. Dawn, please backtrack a bit here!"
"Here?"
A middle-aged lawyer in his fifties walked over slowly and said, "I can only trace the deceased's movements within an hour... Are you sure it's here?"
In his hand he held a silver-white elven staff, the tip of which was the symbol of Avalon - a silver triangle with an emerald inlaid in the center.
After receiving Taya's affirmation, the old wizard slammed his staff to the ground without hesitation.
I saw the silver-white runes condensed into a magic circle and spread out from the ground in an instant.
Soon, blurry, silvery-white silhouettes emerged from the corpses. They stood up as if time was flowing backwards, moving forward against the flow of time.
"Wait a moment!"
Suddenly, Taiya said hurriedly.
The next moment, the picture suddenly paused.
Although the outline was very blurry, she saw it clearly - this knight holding a huge sword had no lower body, yet it was able to float in the air. It appeared out of nowhere, but there was clearly no body there.
Her expression suddenly changed slightly: "Blade Demon?"
"What?"
Hearing this, the people around were also surprised and came over.
"This guy is accompanied by a Blade Demon," Taiya looked down at the man dressed like a lawyer, with obvious burn marks in the shape of a cross on his face and chest. "Could he be the 'Trial Blade Demon'?"
"Blade Trialist" is a wanted criminal of the Lloyd's District Inspectorate.
They said they were wanted criminals, but in fact they didn't even know what the other person looked like.
They could only confirm that the residual aura of the Blade Demon was found at the scenes where the victims were slaughtered many times - it must be that a demon scholar used extraordinary powers to kill innocent people in order to summon and drive the Blade Demon.
The Blade Demon is a relatively rare demon, at least on Glass Island, there should be only one such demon. So they named it "Trial Blade Demon".
However, there are too many things to do in the Inspection Branch of the Lloyd's District, and other districts are unwilling to transfer personnel to the Lloyd's District.
Therefore, "Blade Trialist" only exists as a name on the wanted poster, and no one even knows what he looks like, whether he is a man or a woman, or how old he is.
"Can you see what defeated the Blade Demon?"
"It got knocked off by something."
Dawn pointed at the traces of its flight. "It must have been something with a huge impact. But there are traces of the demon dissipating here, so I think its master was killed, and the Blade Demon was sent back."
"A huge impact?"
Director Taiya wasn't surprised by the latter part. To be able to kill a Blade Demon head-on, one must be at least at the fourth level.
But the more she thought about the first half, the more confused she became.
Only one thing was certain—the two demon dog corpses at the door had clearly been exorcised by a purification power. The outer armor was barely damaged, and the rotting flesh within was intact. It was simply that the curse controlling the corpses had been dispelled… While the curse persisted, the rotting flesh would have been purple, but now it was the color of normal rotting flesh.
"From what I know, Aiwas Moriarty is a priest. He once defeated the Deformed Limb Demon with the help of extraordinary items."
A young female supervisor, writing something in a notebook, replied casually, "He must have dispersed it himself. He's capable of such a thing."
Taiya nodded, then shook his head. "It's certainly possible. But he definitely didn't defeat the Blade Demon. He's just a priest, and he's not very mobile. Even with the added bonus of the Fire Spirit, it's impossible to instantly kill the Blade Demon. And the Blade Demon is very resistant, so there must be someone else at the scene—at least someone who can physically knock the Blade Demon away, or even kill it."
"But there are no footprints, Chief."
"He could probably fly."
Taiya replied, "It could also be some kind of spell... Spells can also achieve this effect. However, there are no traces of spells left on the Path of Wisdom... But it could also be erased. A skilled wizard can cast spells without leaving a trace."
"In other words, a powerful wizard was with Aiwas Moriarty and was attacked by four demonologists."
The inspector muttered to himself while writing down the information in his notebook.
"Not necessarily a mage."
Taiya turned around and added, "It's also possible that the person was dedicated to the Dao or someone who transcended the Dao—after all, only traces of these two powers were left at the scene. However, it's not ruled out that he was a powerful Dao Adaptor. Adaptors also have the ability to hide traces of the Dao."
After that, she walked into the house to conduct further investigation.
Under the image of her monocle, traces of red and purple remained everywhere on the ground.
Through these traces, she gradually traced the source.
It seems that Aiwass should have won.
With the help of the unknown helper, he defeated a group of demonologists who attacked him in the middle of the night.
The fat man who was shot in the head had a strange blast wound on his head that looked very familiar to Taiya - that was the special bullet that Aiwas used when he killed the demonologist for the first time in the Pelican Bar.
This was obviously someone Aiwass killed himself.
Aside from the fat man, the other three perished in the flames. Furthermore, two of them showed little sign of struggle, fighting, or exerting any strength before their deaths, indicating they were killed instantly.
The fire essence scattered on the ground is the proof of his spell.
Then Taiya gradually realized... this should be a high-level extraordinary person on the path of dedication.
This is a very simple assumption: if a person has enough power to defeat the Blade Demon head-on, then he does not need to use weapons such as guns that emphasize hit rate, so those three people should not have been killed by Aiwass.
And if that helper is a wizard, there's no reason for him to only use fire abilities.
"Collect the blood and take it for testing."
She pointed at the bloodstains on the ground and gave instructions to her subordinates.
Judging from the shape, it was naturally dripping blood. Judging from the height, it should be an adult, not Aiwass in a wheelchair.
So he was injured?
But the bloodstains were only at the door and disappeared inside.
Then he should have been healed immediately after being injured.
This is more consistent with the inference of the "two pastors".
There were traces of a wheelchair, leading from the door to the living room. The living room was a bit messy, with the table overturned. The candle had fallen to the floor and broken...it seemed someone had been interrupted while attempting to perform a "fire sacrifice."
Did the two of them fight?
But there was no blood or bodies. If a fight had taken place here, then bodies would have been left behind—the bodies by the door hadn't been picked up, and things were scattered all over the floor. It didn't make sense that only Aiwass's body had been picked up.
Judging from this perspective, Aiwass should at least not be dead!
Thinking of this, Director Taya breathed a sigh of relief.
She had just taken over the position of Commissioner Gordon, and if the hero who had just received the Order of the Holy Sword was killed in her jurisdiction just a week later, she would be in trouble.
But soon, she noticed some subtle shadows lingering in the corner.
"……Um?"
She squatted down and observed carefully for a long time, and finally her face changed drastically: "This is... Shadow Demon?!"
How could there be a high-level demon like Shadow Demon on Glass Island!
This shadow demon obviously did not attack those demonologists. They were in the same group - that is to say, one of the people from the Noble Red Society summoned the shadow demon!
He saw the four men being murdered, and then he followed the two men into the room. Traces of shadow power remained in the crack of the door, which was the evidence.
While the two of them were healing, Shadow Fiend suddenly attacked, knocked them down, and captured them. This should be the whole picture.
——When it comes to a higher-level demon like Shadow Demon, it’s not something they can handle.
She did not dare to neglect it and could only report the matter to the Inspectorate.
The first person to receive the report was her old boss, Inspector Gordon.
When he heard the traces of the Shadow Demon, the first person he thought of was someone.
"...Aleister?"
Inspector Gordon murmured, "Is that you?"
After thinking about it, I decided not to eat for now. I’ll eat after the update is finished!
Update completed! Meow! The cat went to eat and came back to correct the typos!
(End of this chapter)
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