Don't call me evil god

Chapter 485 There's a Traitor Among You
"You don't have enough clues, so it's hard to have a definite analysis idea."

"But there is one thing that can probably be considered the most likely and possible breakthrough at the moment."

Pete stroked his chin and said as he recalled:
"At least, I have never heard of any so-called method of disappearing out of thin air in this world."

"It's easy to make a person or a thing disappear, such as using invisibility magic, teleportation magic, or creating some illusions to cover it up."

If Pete were to change his career and become a magician now, he could also perform some magical shows such as performing the magic of the living dead.

Making people disappear is easy for him.

“But these methods will definitely leave traces.”

"Flashback magic can reproduce the traces of energy fluctuations left here some time ago, whether it is arcane, shadow or some other power."

“Everything that has an effect must leave traces.”

Pete confirmed, "Since you've noticed the anomaly for so long, you must have done some tests, right? Can we ask a wizard to use flashback magic to check it?"

The dwarf of the Freeman family blushed: "...Yes, we have looked for it."

Dwarves don't like magic, but there is a branch of the magic monastery in the stone castle, on the 3rd floor.

Some mages who are interested in the lava lake at the bottom of the stone fortress and the minerals inside the mountain will come here to do some research and investigation. Most of the time, they keep their distance from the dwarves.

"No trace of flashback magic was detected, which means that Bron Freeman's disappearance was neither the result of magic nor divine spells."

"It's impossible to leave through secret passages or mechanisms. Since you have him under house arrest, you will definitely not leave any secret passages for nothing."

“Eliminate the impossible.”

"The only possibility left, no matter how incredible it is, is very likely to be the final truth!"

Pete exhaled and said softly:
"There's a mole among you."

……

The Freeman family's dwarf clerk's eyes suddenly widened as big as copper bells!
As if by reflex, I immediately denied it:
"impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!!!"

The united dwarves have never fought among themselves.

In the Kingdom of Reyak, there are often minor frictions between the nobles, and in serious cases, armed conflicts may even break out.

Dwarves don't do that.

The nine dwarf families claim to have powerful ancestral blood and they have always been closely united.

Every family member is also proud of his or her surname, and the family’s interests and honor are above all else.

If you tease him that he has a muscular body and a stone head, he may not care and will not take it to heart at all.

But if you dare to make fun of his family.

Guaranteed to fall out on the spot.

Beating someone up is the lightest punishment. More serious cases will be directly included in the dwarves' book of hatred and will be boycotted by the nine major families.

With such ideas and personality, there is almost no breeding ground for traitors.

How much benefit would it take to make these stubborn dwarves betray their family?

Pete shrugged his shoulders: "Believe it or not."

"Anyway, according to what you said, Bron Freeman 'disappeared into thin air'."

"Excluding magic and divine arts, which are methods that can directly change reality to achieve results, the most likely possibility is that there is a traitor."

"Think about it."

"Who came to the conclusion that it disappeared out of thin air?"

"According to your statement, the person who was responsible for watching Bron Freeman from morning till night witnessed the so-called 'disappearance out of thin air' with his own eyes. What you learned was just a result, right?"

The dwarf clerk still couldn't believe it and kept shaking his head:
"No, no, no, impossible!"

"We have arranged for more than one person to keep an eye on cousin Bron. At least several family members will be arranged to take turns." "Also, Bron has disappeared more than once. Whenever we try to put him under house arrest, he will suddenly disappear one day. The people who witnessed this are different."

Pete clicked his tongue.

"Have you seen it yourself?"

"No, I've been on duty here for the past 10 years, so I go home less often."

"That's it."

"How dare you conclude that something is impossible when you haven't even seen it with your own eyes?"

"It's also easy to explain why different family members witnessed this incident."

"They are all traitors!"

"Come to think of it. Since there is no use of magic or the like, there must be a group of people speaking with one voice to cover for Bron Freeman in order to accomplish this."

The young dwarf clerk of the Freeman family almost collapsed after hearing this.

He tried to find reasons to refute Pete.

For example, the Freeman family is very united and there is no possibility of any mole or traitor.

But these reasons are too subjective and have no real basis.

He also wanted to simply cover his ears, refuse to think, and insist that there could be no problem with his family members.

But Pete's "mob theory" was like a nail stuck in his heart, which could not be removed or pulled out.

I can't calm down at all.

As soon as he thought about it, he would begin to doubt himself in his heart.

There is probably a traitor in the family.

There are more than one or two traitors.

Maybe a group of traitors have already appeared!
Seeing the dwarf's painful and tangled look, Pete thought for a moment and added:
"I think you shouldn't worry too much."

"Look at it from a bright perspective. Bron Freeman didn't do anything extreme, did he? Besides, the traitor didn't seem to cause any losses to the family."

"He just started to like running to the Spirit Wing Wetlands."

"Maybe there's some treasure over there and he found a clue and is busy looking for it."

The Spirit Wing Wetlands has always been influenced by extremely powerful dragon language magic. Legend has it that a giant dragon once flew from the Frostfire Plateau and cast magic here.

Extremely rare dragon carcasses can even be found buried deep within the wetlands.

If you are lucky, you can collect dragon bones and dragon scales from the dragon corpse.

They are both powerful and rare top-grade materials.

For most adventurers and mercenaries, that was almost like becoming rich overnight.

Over at the Dark Forest on the eastern border of the Kingdom of Reyak, adventurers often kill monsters in order to explore the forest;
In the Lingyi Wetlands on the northern border, adventurers destroy the monsters they encounter mostly in order to go deep into the wetlands to explore and search for treasures.

Not just humans.

Some dwarves in the Stone Fort are not very good at forging, and sometimes they go to the Spiritwing Wetlands for adventure.

However, the proportion of this type of dwarves is quite small, probably accounting for less than 5% of their population.

Hearing Pete's consolation, the young dwarf shook his head repeatedly:

"No no no!"

"no the same!"

"Although cousin Bron has never done anything extreme, he looked very scary before. It's like he has become a different person. He is definitely not normal!"

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(End of this chapter)