My dear witch, please turn evil according to the script!

Chapter 195 A Great Achievement No One Knows

Just as Roland found his target, Fram and Delan also found a clue.

Also in the banquet hall, Flam and Delan discovered the bodies of four Inspector General agents.

They died in different locations.

But each corpse was closer to the empty stage in the center of the banquet hall than the previous one.

Frum looked around, as if searching for something.

Delan, who was acting as a follower, went forward to check the cause of death of the men.

There were no obvious injuries on the bodies of the four corpses.

It was as if he had suddenly collapsed and died on the ground.

After examining the body, Delan found no external injuries that could have caused death.

Frum looked at Delan and said softly, "Don't look anymore, their souls have been completely destroyed."

"Although the soul remains in the body due to the special nature of the divine descent ritual, it is shattered like crumbs of a cookie... as if it was caused when resisting some kind of impact."

As she spoke, Frum walked over to Delan and knelt down to examine the condition of the body: "This should be the site of the divine descent ritual."

"But...it's strange. Generally speaking, the power of gods, even the power of evil gods, can penetrate the limitations of space."

“Simply spatial anomalies should not be able to separate the ceremony site into separate areas.”

As Fram was pondering this, she saw the message request initiated by Roland.

After establishing a communication connection, Flam looked at Roland and asked, "Roland, have you discovered the scene of the divine descent ritual?"

Roland shook his head: "We only found Ms. Natalia's body... You were also in the banquet hall? Did they find anything else in your banquet hall?"

Frum nodded: "The bodies of the four Inspectorate agents died from shattered souls. However, based on observation, this should be the site of the divine descent ritual. Some of the arrangements are very much in line with the ritual rules of those Chaos Madmen."

Have you found any more clues about the divine descent ritual?

Roland shook his head: "No. However, although no clues were found about the divine descent ritual, it seems that Lady Natalia fired something with her gun before she died."

“I was going to ask if you know him. I just tried to contact President Götze, but the communication magic failed.”

"It seems there is still interference outside the ship. The communication magic only works within a small area, probably due to the fog."

Upon seeing Roland take out the wooden box, Fram's eyes suddenly sharpened, and her entire aura changed.

"Damn it! Has the person who learned this gone mad?! They actually dared to use this thing?!"

"Besides, didn't that damned Demon King say anything? Doesn't he even recognize things from the royal court?!"

Upon hearing Flam's voice, the Demon King's remnant soul silently floated to Roland's head: "I'm really sorry I can't remember. After all, I'm just a remnant soul. Aren't your expectations too high?"

"Besides, it's just an empty box, without any royal court markings, and you can't even sense any magical energy on it. How did you determine that?"

Frum sighed: "How could I not recognize the spoils I robbed from the Demon King's castle?"

Demon King's remnant soul: "..."

"Ahem, after the war ended, Corliss wanted this, so I gave it to her. I never expected it to end up here..."

"Corliss?" the Demon King and Roland asked in unison.

"Ah, that violent girl from the academy in the team back then, the one who liked to hit people with a crowbar."

The Demon King's remnant soul suddenly realized: "Oh, it's her!"

Roland: "..."

Mr. Demon King, why do you always remember such strange and unusual memories?

Seeing that the topic was veerging off course, Roland quickly asked, "So what's in this box?"

Upon hearing this, Frum continued to explain: "It is a relic of a royal court."

"The soul casket of the previous Lich King. He died during the curse analysis operation led by the Demon King, and was killed by the backlash of the evil god's power."

"And the Soul Box, corrupted by the power of the evil god, has become an ominous object."

"Later... Corliss and I modified the soul box and turned it into five rune arrows."

"Ximmel calls it—the Evil Arrow of Death… well, let’s ignore the name, this guy has never been good at naming things. The names he comes up with don’t even have anything to do with its function."

Frum shrugged helplessly, then continued, "However, given that we couldn't think of anything suitable for a name, we used Hinmel's name."

"It's just a little secret between friends. After all, we never really intended to use it."

"The purpose of making them into arrowheads was simply to facilitate the dispersion of the evil god's contamination on them, and then to suppress them separately."

"As for its effects... stasis. Stagnation of everything within its sphere of influence."

"Time, space, life, soul... everything that has the concepts of 'flow' and 'disappearance' will be permanently stilled by it."

"Now I understand where these corpses and the strange things on this ship came from."

"Damn it, how could the Academy actually let a seventh-ring transcendent carry around something like this?"

Roland laughed: "But clearly, it's had some effect, hasn't it?"

"Since neither you nor I have found the site of the divine descent ritual, it seems to be with the Inquisitor."

……

Suren could hardly comprehend what she was seeing.

Flames, flames everywhere.

Flowing flames.

Holy fire.

This power, derived from the sun and the god of justice, made her feel naturally close to it.

But what she saw before her made her tremble involuntarily.

As a genius rarely seen by the Vatican in decades, with the support of the Vatican's resources, Suren reached the eighth level at the age of sixteen.

A sixteen-year-old warrior at the Eighth Ring Hero rank.

Despite her youth, her abilities are undeniable, and she has participated in numerous operations. The position of Grand Inquisitor wasn't solely earned based on her strength.

Even so, everything in the banquet hall before her eyes still left her stunned.

The same was true of the fifteen judges behind her.

The sacred flames completely enveloped the banquet hall.

A robust middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties or fifties stood on the stage in the center of the banquet hall, leaning on a sword.

A body length behind him, an agent dressed in the uniform of the Hearst Empire's Inspectorate held a standard military long gun, aiming it at the writhing shadow in the flames.

The agent's right arm had long since disappeared, and even a third of the right side of his body had vanished.

But he still roared and fired at the shadow that was still writhing before him, unleashing his last rage.

The robust middle-aged man... even though he wasn't wearing any Vatican attire, the sword in his hand allowed Suren to recognize his identity.

The Grand Judge—■■■■, her grandfather.

She couldn't recall her grandfather's name, not even now.

Everything before my eyes seemed to be in motion, yet also like a still painting.

Whether it was her grandfather or the dying agent.

Or perhaps it was that writhing shadow.

Everything seemed to be half frozen in time.

At their feet stood a bishop dressed in Chaos Brotherhood attire.

The banquet hall was littered with the corpses of Chaos cultists.

The scene before us silently tells the story of what once happened here.

After a long silence, Suren said to himself, "It seems... we've found the site of the divine descent ritual."

At that very moment, Roland and Fram's messages arrived at Suren's location.

Three minutes later, after clarifying everything that Suren had seen, the first to speak was surprisingly the Demon King.

"Incredible... Burning the soul, sacrificing existence, igniting the fire of faith, freezing time with the static arrows made from the soul casket of Akras, sealing the divine descent ritual with the fire of faith..."

"Tsk tsk, humans are sometimes really incredible."

Even if it all comes to nothing in the end, you should still give it a try...

Clearly, the well-informed Demon King has roughly reconstructed the process of the divine descent ritual.

At Roland's request, the Demon King's remnant soul and Flam joined forces, combining the information Roland and Delan had previously gathered about the Iris incident, to reconstruct the general course of events that occurred on the ship for everyone.

What happened on the Iris was not complicated.

A group of Chaos cultists attempted to perform a divine descent ritual on the ship, unaware that they had already been targeted by the Imperial Inspectorate.

However, the Bureau of Supervision lacked sufficient intelligence and failed to realize that this Chaos Cultist possessed a "holy relic" of the Chaos Brotherhood, thus not paying much attention to it.

Natalia, who was active in Riskan at the time, also noticed something amiss, based on information provided by Cellina.

Before she boarded the ship, the commissions the two of them took on together were all highly targeted.

Although it is still unclear why the static arrow appeared on her, she must have realized something, or the Society may have conveyed some information that she is asked to investigate.

That's why she came to this ship.

As for this Grand Judge...

His situation is very special.

According to the Demon King, he has already sacrificed a part of his being.

The concept of a name no longer exists for him. A part of his past has also been buried.

But one thing is certain: since he chose to board this ship, he must have discovered something and wanted to solve something.

Otherwise, what would be the purpose of a Grand Inquisitor of the eighth rank appearing in Riskan in plain clothes?
In short, although he was present, he was unable to prevent the divine descent ritual from taking place.

Or perhaps he tried to stop it, but failed.

In the end, he could only unite all the forces he could to curb the spread of the divine descent ritual through extreme methods such as burning souls and sacrificing existence.

Then, this is the scene that the group sees now.

They proved to be successful.

The power of the divine descent ritual was indeed contained.

The vast majority of the power that the Whisperers of Eternal Silence brought was bound within the cage constructed by the fire of faith and the arrow of stillness.

It attempts to break free from control by dividing space.

But the cage was always there, like a shadow.

Otherwise... the Storm Ocean wouldn't be what it is today.

This was a great undertaking that no one knew about before.

If Roland hadn't happened to place the notebook on the table, and if Kalia, who was closely connected to the Whisperers of Eternal Silence, hadn't read the contents of the diary... this investigation wouldn't have happened.

The Iris may drift at sea indefinitely until all the efforts of everyone on board are in vain.

Fortunately, the witness arrived at the right place at the right time.

However, the questions have not been fully answered.

If everyone on the ship were to perish at this moment.

that……

Who was controlling the "Iris" that later appeared in the ice-free port of Isfar?

Why would it appear in the North?

(End of this chapter)