I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

Later, to prevent any more heretics from infiltrating the crowd, Brunkel simply ordered that holy water be forcibly added to all the food supplied to the refugees. Only those who drank the holy water and then bathed in it were qualified to enter the temporary camp; otherwise, they would be treated as traitors.

Long queues formed as food was distributed, and no one dared to refuse to drink. The thousands of refugees were quickly identified, and many died, as they were already weak. The high-level holy water, with its inherent holy light, was something they could not withstand.

It should be noted that high-level holy water is usually only used on people who are deeply polluted or seriously ill and dying, and it must be made into a medicine before it can be used. However, Brunkel's actions were tantamount to directly killing ordinary people who were weak but had not been contaminated in the slightest.

Of course, it is undeniable that the efficiency is indeed very high.

This batch is the last one.

These refugees had a noble background, making them difficult to deal with. They were placed on a high mountain far from the Northern Tribal Alliance. The tribesmen dug a cave in the mountainside to create an isolation area for them to undergo temporary quarantine to prevent any accidents from happening.

This group of people has already passed the first round of screening, and no problems were found. According to the rules, the second round will be conducted. In principle, the whole process is then complete.

But the Blue Knight didn't think so, because she received some bad news: one of the people in this group had an old feud with the Brunkel family.

The reason why Brunkel's father embarked on that path of no return back then seems to have been due to the interference of that family. It was a power struggle at the central level of the empire. The other party originally wanted to use the heresy incident to bring down her father and force him to make concessions and hand over the power in his hands. But no one expected that Brunkel would directly kill her father.

This time, her family was not threatened at all, but instead took a step further and directly entered the central government.

The Blue Knight was worried that Brenkel would take this opportunity to retaliate. She usually prided herself on following the rules, but no one could say for sure whether the rules were flexible in her hands.

The Blue Knight's field mission was originally headed to Watchtower City. As soon as he arrived, he assigned the task to this Eliminator from the Empire as his partner: to clean up the heretics mixed in with the refugees, using any means necessary.

Of course, there were some considerations in sending her as a partner: firstly, to restrain Brenkel to some extent and prevent her from doing anything too extreme; secondly, the North was indeed not very peaceful, and with her there, she could at least protect the safety of this Cleanser; as for why it was her, the reason was simple: it was said that Brenkel hated men extremely, so only a female knight could be arranged for this task.

The group consisted of five people: the Blue Knight, Brunkel, and three nuns sent by the Holy Church. All three nuns were at the third rank, while Brunkel, like the Blue Knight, was at the fourth rank.

The three nuns, wrapped in cloaks for warmth, walked in silence, clutching their prayer texts in their hands.

Braving the wind and snow, the group of five arrived at the mountainside of the high mountain. The cave for the isolation zone was just ahead, its entrance dark and emitting a chilling aura.

The leader of this group of refugees was a viscount, who was wrapped in a thick fur coat. His face was blue from the cold. A fire could be seen from the cave entrance. When he saw the group from afar, he bowed and came to greet them, leading them into the cave. As they walked, he told them that the quarantine zone was currently safe and sound, and that the northern tribes were delivering their food on time every day. He hoped that they would finish their investigation as soon as possible so that they could find their own places to go.

Brunkel walked at the front, listening expressionlessly without responding to a single word.

The cave was deep, and people waiting for a second check were gathered inside. There were old people, women, and young men, all wrapped in thick clothes that didn't fit them well. They squeezed around the firelight. The cave was filled with the smell of smoke, sweat, and a lingering herbal scent. The firelight made their faces appear and disappear.

The Blue Knight's gaze swept over the crowd, and his steps gradually slowed down. Something was wrong. These people had been locked up for so long, and their food was not plentiful. After round after round of screening, when the knight and the nun came in, not one of them moved forward. Not even one of them glanced at them. They all remained quietly squatting in place, unusually quiet.

The Blue Knight's hand had just rested on the hilt of his sword when Brenkel, at the very front, moved.

Without any warning, a flash of cold light, and the viscount's head, which was speaking, rolled into the muddy water, spraying blood. As if to prevent any accidents, Brunkel directly cleaved the headless body in two with a single stroke, and blood and internal organs spilled out.

The Blue Knight and the three nuns reacted instantly and each assumed a fighting stance.

There's something going on.

What was even more chilling was that, despite the heads rolling off and the bodies being split in two, not a single one of the refugees screamed or retreated. Under the firelight, all their faces turned around in unison.

The viscount's body crashed to the ground, and the cave fell silent for a moment.

The next moment, the head that had rolled to the ground had eyes that had somehow become twisted and contorted.

"Finally, I've received the perfect offering."

The voice came from both the skull and the depths of the cave, filled with barely suppressed fervor: "Offer them to the Emperor!"

The next moment, dozens of figures emerged from the depths of the cave and from the path the group had taken, surrounding the group of five.

The Blue Knight's eyes were sharp. With a flick of his wrist, the light red patterned rapier was drawn, and light blue threads slithered out from the gaps in his armor. Meanwhile, the three nuns, their faces devout, began to chant in hymns, and the holy light of the scriptures in their hands instantly shone brightly.

A fierce battle is inevitable.

In the underground detention hall of the Knight Academy, the Grand Knight Commander of Rock stood in the center of the hall, his brows furrowed.

Before him, the heretic hanging on the torture device was already dead. His body was split open from the center of his chest all the way to his lower abdomen, the flesh rolled outwards, and bones and internal organs could be seen in the crack. On the ground below the torture device, blood mixed with medicine flowed far along the lines of the ground, the force of which was bursting out from inside the body.

The two people in charge of the interrogation stood aside with solemn expressions. They had just received instructions from the Grand Knight of Rock and were preparing to continue the interrogation when, before they even touched the person, the prisoner was torn in two right in front of them, and a lot of flesh and blood tried to attack the surroundings. Fortunately, the original protective inscriptions worked, and soon the corpse completely lost its life.

The Great Knight Commander of Rock stared at the crack for a long time. The corpse was still warm, so it seemed that it hadn't been dead for very long.

He took out the Holy Light Stone from his pocket and circled the corpse. The stone remained still and showed no unusual behavior. The inscription that had locked the corpse did not continue to activate, except for the strange noise from earlier. Clearly, the man had died inexplicably.

The face of the Great Knight Commander of Rock gradually darkened.

He had only been gone a short while, and in such a short time, he died.

Logically speaking, this is impossible. This guy is a tough nut to crack, a captain-level officer. He's kept alive by medication, and the inscriptions in the hall keep him alive day and night. Unless the interrogation was truly too harsh, there's absolutely no way something could have happened to him.

The problem is that no one continued to interrogate him, and the laceration couldn't have been made by any torture device. It was a laceration from the inside out, and with those internal organs, it was clear that something inside his body had been triggered.

But how was it triggered?

The Grand Knight Commander of Rock swept his gaze across the hall, carefully reviewing the events before and after, even recalling every word the heretic had uttered.

But no matter how he listened, he couldn't hear anything that could kill him.

The only unusual thing that happened here during this period was that he brought Lu Yuan here.

But can this be blamed on Lu Yuan? That kid didn't do anything. At most, he just stared at the heretic for a while, and then the heretic went crazy. He didn't do anything drastic. He saw that clearly at the time.

The Grand Knight Commander of Rock frowned more and more, unable to understand it no matter what.

Could it really be related to Lu Yuan?

But he quickly stopped overthinking it. Whatever the reason, the person died here, and the matter had to be investigated thoroughly. The loss of such a captain-level intelligence source was absolutely unacceptable.