Don't call me evil god

Chapter 681 He is not dead?
Time goes back to dozens of minutes ago.

When Reina sneaked into the Marquis's manor after the fire, the pungent smell of sulfur in the air became more obvious.

The smell of sulfur does not necessarily represent the devil. After all, people usually use it to repel insects, etc.

But whenever the devil appears, there is always a smell of sulfur.

With the Crusaders guarding outside, the priests of the Cult of the Light inside relaxed their vigilance a little. The various divine spells they cast were aimed at the cultists who had obtained the power of the evil god.

Reina, a completely orthodox stealth fighter who relied purely on shadow energy to move, successfully sneaked into the manor.

After the fire, the originally magnificent and tall houses in the manor had almost collapsed completely, leaving only the burnt black and smelly ruins.

The priests were scattered everywhere, chanting prayers to soothe the soul, purify the evil, and cleanse the manor of the remaining void pollution to prevent it from bringing subsequent effects.

A dozen strong Crusaders were working together to move building debris from the ruins and checking the manor for any abnormalities they had not noticed.

Dozens of bodies that lost their lives in the fire were neatly placed in a small open space not far away. The bodies, whose faces were burnt and bodies were as black as charcoal, were covered with white cloth. An elderly priest was casting magic on the bodies over and over again.

Reina listened attentively to the old priest's prayer.

A divine art to soothe the soul.

There was also a tall and strong young man, dressed as a crusader, holding a huge holy water bottle in his arms. He carefully scooped out clear holy water from it and then poured it on the white cloth covering the corpse.

There are many sources of void pollution, such as the direct infusion of divine power by evil gods, the pollution accumulated when cultists and monsters cause damage, or simply being affected by the surrounding environment and things.

If mortals are severely polluted and die before they can degenerate into monsters, they will be in their current state and cannot be brought back to life by the Great Resurrection Spell. The twisted power of the void will remain on their corpses, constantly emitting pollution to the surroundings until this power is exhausted.

Some believers in the Church of Knowledge accumulate too much pollution while fighting monsters, and if they don't have time to find a priest to purify them, their bodies will be in this state after they commit suicide.

Believers who specialize in "picking up corpses" now have mature assembly-line processing templates.

After the body is brought back, it is first handed over to the priests for purification. After ensuring that it is no longer dangerous, it will be handed over to the "dead" to let him take back the legendary experience on his body.

The members of the Cult of the Light also have to go through this purification process.

Reina looked around carefully and found an inconspicuous cellar entrance.

There should have been a small house above the cellar.

The latter had collapsed into ruins after the fire, which not only exposed the cellar, but the ruins also provided a simple cover for it, making it difficult to observe the situation near the cellar.

It was just the right time for Reina to sneak over, cancel the [Stealth] mode, hide at the entrance of the cellar, only half of her head exposed, and observe carefully in secret.

The fierce flames burned the bodies so hard that it was difficult to distinguish their identities.

Each corpse looked like it had a strange and twisted posture and was highly carbonized. It was almost impossible to determine its identity from its appearance, body shape, clothing, etc.

Most of the time, investigators can only roughly determine the identity of the person based on the location where the body was found.

According to the news report of "Trade and Wealth", the identities of the deceased included the Marquis of Madison, his wife, and his four children, and the remaining thirty-odd people were all servants working in the manor.

These hired servants were usually responsible for cleaning the manor, taking care of the daily life of the Marquis and his family, and also worked part-time as supervisors to check the work of the farmers outside.

The conclusion that Reina came to after observing the corpse through the magic of [Revelation of All Things] was similar to the information provided by the news.

Most of the bodies were ordinary people.

Their "legendary level" was basically in the single digits from Reina's perspective. In other words, they did not possess any power that represented their professional status.

有4具尸体的情况有所不同。他们的传奇等级分别是3阶34级，2阶21级，2阶27级和1阶18级。

obviously.

These four people are the children of Marquis Madison, and they match the ones in the news. Marquis Madison’s eldest son is a level 3 warrior, and he has three second sons, two of whom are level 2 and one is level 1.

The information is correct.

Judging from the location where their bodies were placed, the Cult of the Light had apparently confirmed the identities of these four people, because they were placed separately in a small area and were not mixed with the bodies of the servants of the manor.

Reina noticed that there were some small miscellaneous items placed around the body.

Breastplate, pocket watch, ring, bracelet, necklace...

She suddenly understood.

The people of the Glowing God Cult cannot use [Secrets of All Things] to determine the identity of the corpse, but they can directly infer it based on the situation at the scene.

The servants serving in the manor could not afford to wear so many expensive jewellery, especially since many of them were blessed by divine arts or magic and had unique effects.

These things were not burned in the flames and appeared on the corpse, which could indirectly prove the identity of the corpse.

……

After carefully observing the condition of each corpse, Reina frowned slightly.

"Did I count wrong?"

She carefully counted the bodies covered by the white cloth again from the beginning:
"1, 2, 3...37, 38, 39!"

"That's right!"

According to the report of "Trade and Fortune", the fire in the manor caused a total of 39 deaths, and no one in the entire Marquis's manor was spared.

The body count is correct.

Through the information provided by [The Secret of All Things], Lena confirmed the identities of Marquis Madison's children and his wife one by one.

The bodies were placed together.

But Lena didn't find the body that was supposed to represent Marquis Madison!

Precisely.

Among the corpses collected and processed by the Glowing God Cult, there was one body placed together with Madison's children and wife. It should be the Marquis Madison himself who unfortunately died in the fire.

But when Lena turned her eyes to the corpse, the information fed back to her by [Secrets of All Things] showed that this was clearly an ordinary person!

Reina didn't find any legendary level 5 among these corpses!
A bold idea came to my mind:

"Marquis Madison is not actually dead?!"

……

There are more and more in the evening

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(End of this chapter)