Yun Wei turned around and saw Isaac walking out of the room.
He asked in surprise, "Isa, why are you back?"
"I found some useful information, but it's a long story."
Seeing Yun Wei hiding furtively behind a pillar in the corridor, Isaac couldn't help but lower his voice, "But you, what's wrong with you... what are you doing?"
Yun Wei quickly told Isaac what had just happened in the laboratory.
After hearing the whole story, the upright knight frowned deeply. "It seems the problem with Alchemy City is rather troublesome..."
He also told Yunwei about what he had seen and heard that day.
It turns out that today he finally had the opportunity to enter the core workshop under the name of "Hand of the God of Magic", but he was required to be under closed management.
He inquired a little and learned that the raw materials for the mechs were sourced through Cardinal Yorkshire of Alchemy City and supplied to both the "Hand of the Gods" and the "Eye of Truth" workshops.
This aligns with their previous speculation:
The cardinals who survived the Redmoon City catastrophe all colluded with the Abyss.
Now that this conclusion has been verified, and with Sid and Silver back in Alchemy City, there's no longer any need for him to remain an undercover agent.
Taking advantage of a break while they were queuing up, he used his shapeshifting ability to slip away.
As soon as he returned, he heard that Yunwei had discovered new clues.
Isaac pondered for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "Perhaps the situation in Alchemy City is more complex than we originally imagined. Has the Abyss planted more than one pawn here?"
After hearing what Isaac said, Yun Wei also realized the problem. "To be honest, if all three of them are controlled by the Abyss, there's no need for them to fight to the death over seats in the council."
“It’s the four factions,” Isaac corrected. “Governor Haynes and the Gilded Family, the Bishop of Yorkshire and the Church of Radiant Light, and two other factions that are suspicious but for which there is no direct evidence that they are colluding with the Abyss.”
"Huh?...I clearly said the three factions that have seats in the 'Transaction Council,' while the Holy Church of Radiance has no seats." Yun Wei couldn't help but roll his eyes at Isaac, then sighed, "Speaking of which, I'm disliking this city less and less."
Although this place appears wealthy and developed, it actually exposes the ugliest side of human nature in a blatant manner.
Even today, Yun Wei still feels that Sid's house is the only warmth in this city.
Even though old George had problems, it only fueled Yunwei's strong sympathy for Sid.
Therefore, they must thoroughly sweep away the filth and corruption that lurk within them.
...
Sid and Silver returned around noon.
The two saw Yun Wei's message in the lab and went upstairs openly from the lab.
Yun Wei quickly asked, "How is it?"
"Let's go inside first, and talk in the library," Sid said calmly, but Yun Wei felt that the other man's face was even paler than before.
The four of them sat down at the long table in the library.
Because exposure to light would accelerate the aging of the parchment scrolls, there was no permanent lighting spell circle in this room; instead, pure silver candlesticks were used.
In the flickering candlelight, Yun Wei saw that Xi De across the long table was as white as paper, like a vengeful ghost that had crawled out of purgatory and vowed revenge.
Those emerald green eyes seemed perfectly calm, but when they pulled out the blackened gold leaves one by one from the handkerchief, an undisguised pain flickered within them.
The room was unusually quiet, and the gold leaf falling on the lacquered hardwood table made a dull thud.
It was as if the Tyr couple's lives had been taken once again.
The past reappears.
It's terrifying.
Finally, all the gold leaves in the handkerchief were poured out, and Yun Wei silently counted them.
There are thirteen in total.
Sid laughed, a chilling laugh. "Look how ridiculous... It's only worth this little money, but two lives have vanished just like that."
Silver gently put his arm around his lover's shoulder, but said, "No, they weren't actually after money. Those killers... were just a bunch of madmen who enjoyed killing."
Silver went on to recount the clues he had uncovered over the years.
It turns out that "Bloodstained Leaves" has some mysterious connection with the royal family of the Blackthorn Kingdom.
Five years ago, after Crown Prince Alejandro began his regency, the entire assassin organization suddenly vanished as if it had disappeared from the face of the earth.
Silver's trail went cold.
But this did not affect his determination to strip all his vassals of their titles; for Bethlehem, one ruler was enough.
On the issue of dictatorship, he surprisingly shared a similar view with Alejo in the north.
Sid murmured, "No wonder I saw such thick fog in the corridor when I was a child. It was the water magic of the Kingdom of Blacksock. It all makes sense now."
Yun Wei nodded, "That's why I threatened old George while casting the 'Cloud and Mist Technique,' which made him let it slip."
Yun Wei was filled with fear.
He silently warned himself that he must be careful in the future and try not to use this spell in front of Sid.
“That bastard deserves to die,” Sid said coldly, but his brows furrowed in annoyance. “But how can I get him to tell the truth?”
If he could, he would like to go back to that day.
Go and see for yourself what really happened.
Upon hearing this, Yun Wei suddenly spoke up: "I do have a way..."
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Yun Wei directly took out the eerie necromancy book from his spatial storage—
The Dead Speak.
He flipped through the pages quickly, but then rotated them 180 degrees to face Sid. "The fifth-level necromancy 'God-Searching Spell' can read the memories of the dead... However, I'm not sure what the consequences would be if used on a living person."
When Sid practiced 'Shape Mimicry' before, he had already mastered the basic runes of necromancy.
As a level 5 mage, his chances of success in casting this spell, based on the "Dead Man's Tale," are quite high.
Sid skimmed through the description of the Necronomicon, then sneered, "Then let's kill them first."
Clearly, this usually calm alchemist had been blinded by hatred.
At this moment, the other three remained silent.
Putting themselves in Sid's shoes, they probably would have made the same choice.
Blood debts must be repaid in blood.
Sid suddenly stood up, the ornate chair casting a long, dull sound on the floor, like a chilling execution tone.
He casually cast a cloud of mist spell, enveloping the three people and the candlesticks around the table.
Yun Wei saw that the slender young man was walking towards the door with his back straight and his steps calm.
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