After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

"……Um?"

A report caught his attention.

After recaptured the city, despite being short of troops, Aize still arranged for a large number of guards to remain in the city to ensure public security and the smooth progress of various affairs.

This report came from a security patrol team.

"While investigating a human trafficking case, we identified a pair of gang members connected to numerous incidents. We attempted to apprehend them, but discovered both had been murdered in their home, along with over a dozen witnesses. Furthermore... all of the deceased had their facial features deliberately obliterated!?"

Black-on-black competition is as common as eating in this city.

But at this critical moment, something like this happened. Aize had a strong sense of foreboding and muttered to himself:

"Disfigured facial features... Faceless? No, that's too conspicuous... Never mind, let's go take a look at the scene first."

Chapter 117: Phantom of the Lonely City

Currently, Bill Trecker, the representative of the city's traitors, has been arrested, but his numerous followers are still lurking in alleys and residential areas.

Among these members, a considerable number of them have committed crimes so numerous that they are beyond redemption. There is no possibility of surrendering or compromising at all, so they will inevitably use all means to fight to the end.

Now that Rosaline's Pure White Saint Sect has been completely suppressed, these guys have become the main internal problem to be faced next.

Therefore, in addition to fighting against the undead army outside the city, Aize also deployed some manpower inside the city to hunt down these remnants together with the locals who were willing to cooperate.

For this purpose, more than ten security stations were set up in the city.

Where Aize is now is one of them.

After reading the report and learning that the recovered bodies were stored here, he ignored the fatigue of more than ten hours of continuous high-intensity combat and rushed here immediately.

"Lord Aize, please come this way."

Under the guidance of the grassroots officer in charge of this place, he and Villian came to an empty room and saw the two bodies lying on stretchers and covered with white cloth.

When it was opened, a horrifying scene appeared in the field of vision.

The two sturdy men were only wearing a thin vest, so their unusually developed muscles and the large, terrifying skull-shaped tattoos on them were clearly visible.

Cause of death, from the face.

Where the facial features should have been, there is now only a big hole. The entire face, including the bones underneath and even the brain, has completely disappeared, leaving only a mass of disgusting mucus mixed with blood.

Aize gritted his teeth and looked up at Villian:

"What do you think?"

"Judging from the traces and the residual magic, it must have been done by the Faceless One. And to achieve this level, he must be a very high-level Faceless One."

Miss Witch gave an answer that Aize didn't really want to hear.

The widely known image of the Faceless Man is similar to the plastic mannequins in clothing stores. It is basically human-shaped, but the face is abnormally flat and lacks any facial features.

But in fact, its body is made up of a liquid-like substance.

Normally it is just some disgusting mucus, but once the Faceless One consciously injects magic power into it, it can become toxic and corrosive, causing direct damage to any other creature it comes into contact with.

It is considered one of the few combat capabilities of the Faceless Men, but its efficiency is actually quite low. Its toxicity and corrosiveness are directly linked to individual strength and are very unstable.

In addition, this method of killing the target is too unique, which will immediately make people aware of the existence of the Faceless Men, which conflicts with the Faceless Men's positioning of covert operations.

Therefore, most faceless men would rather fight directly with weapons after transforming.

Now, the two corpses placed in front of Aize were not only undoubtedly killed by the Faceless Men, but the other party even deliberately chose the face as the target.

This shows that the other party not only has no intention of hiding his identity and whereabouts, but is even clearly demonstrating to Aize.

But why?

"The undead alone is annoying enough, and now there's the Faceless Men. What the hell... Sigh."

Aize cursed, stood up, turned to the guards beside him, and asked:

"These two bodies were found in a dark alley?"

"Yes!"

The officer stood at attention and returned the salute, reporting respectfully:

"The two deceased were brothers. They were well-known thugs and slave traders throughout Lilbas, and were close associates of Bill Trecker. During the occupation, they were suspected of at least 80 murders, including murder and injury, and even cannibalism. Therefore, they were listed as one of the top arrest targets."

"The locals we were working with revealed their whereabouts, so I led a team to capture them. But by the time we arrived, they had already become like this. We had no choice but to bring back the bodies first."

"These useless bastards who bully the weak and fear the strong deserve such an easy death."

Aize did not hide his contempt at all, and even raised his foot to kick each of the two scumbags again.

"And then? Were there any traces found at the scene?"

"Report, checked carefully, nothing."

"No? Where are the witnesses?"

"I asked around, no one."

This is troublesome.

The current situation in Lilbas is still a mess. Aize simply does not have enough manpower and time to search the entire city bit by bit to find the Faceless Men.

Moreover, when talking about the powerful Faceless Men involved in this incident, the first person that Aize thought of was one of the thirteen leaders, the Faceless King who had confronted him before in Jarlsburg.

That guy is a complete jerk.

A possession-like ability whose principle is unknown and completely undetectable, a strange body that can easily pass through the barriers set up by Violet, and a strange, unusual and unpredictable personality.

If it is really in Lilbas, then all the effort to catch it will be in vain.

Aize waved to the soldiers:

"Preserve these two bodies, and leave the others alone for now. Leave them to me."

"Yes!"

"Also, inform all security teams operating in the city to be extremely vigilant against Faceless Men attacks and infiltration during patrols and arrests. Even a child must not be taken lightly. The frequency of body scans for the entire force must also be increased from once in the morning and once in the evening to three times. No chance of survival."

"Yes!"

After giving the order, Aize did not stay for long. He took Villian and a team of guards out of the police station and immediately turned in a certain direction and started moving forward.

Miss Witch came over:

"Where are you going?"

"church."

"Church? That woman's place?"

"Well, I have a bad feeling, so I have to go and confirm it."

The Faceless Man's murders seemed too arrogant from the method to the situation, so arrogant that Aize was almost certain that the other party was giving him the middle finger.

Such a direct provocation is completely inconsistent with the basic logic of the Faceless Men's actions under normal circumstances. There must be some deep-seated reasons.

This reason, combined with the previous incident in Jarlsberg, is almost certainly directly related to Rosalind.

At that time, when the Faceless King saw Rosaline for the first time, he showed a kind of obsession towards Rosaline, and even gave up his original plan for this.

Then, it appeared here.

This happened when Rosaline was at her weakest after suffering the blow.

This can't be a coincidence.

As Azer and the Imperial Army fought tooth and nail against the surging Undead army, something might have happened.

"Vir, how is the Faith Network doing?"

"Hold on."

The situation was urgent, and without caring about the passers-by and soldiers present, Villian raised her hand, accumulated magic power and released the monitoring spell.

For the past ten hours or so, she, like Aize, has focused all her attention on fighting the undead army.

Controlling puppets, using spells, conducting reconnaissance and detection, and other tasks consumed a large amount of magic power and energy, so there was no spare energy to pay attention to the situation of the faith network.

When the familiar star-chart-like scene appeared before her eyes again, her eyes widened.

"Aize, look at this!"

The situation has changed significantly.

When checking yesterday, both the ball of light that symbolized Rosaline and the spots of light that symbolized the believers appeared dim and flickering, even giving Aize a feeling that they might go out at any time.

Now, the light is unusually dazzling.

Even the small light spots that originally surrounded the light ball, floating and moving freely, were fixed by some thin but solid silk threads like spider webs, directly connected to the light ball, forming a real network structure, which was completely different from the previous half-baked one.

It looks quite beautiful, but at the moment, it is definitely not a good thing.

Seeing that his bad premonition was about to be confirmed, Aize sighed and asked:

"Can you see what this means?"

"The flow of magic power in the faith network is becoming unusually active and powerful. Even believers who were previously unable to directly observe it can now clearly detect it... But I'm sorry, I can't explain exactly what's happening."

The faith network is the product of a convergence of clearly directed magical forces. However, judging from the current situation, its essence is far more complex than this level of cognition suggests.

The embedded monitoring technique can only detect the flow of magic power. Without knowing the reason, it is natural that the results appear to be rather abstract.

Aize shook his head:

"It's okay, we'll know soon enough anyway."

Leading his team, Aize passed through the residents who were cheering because the undead were once again repelled, and trotted towards the target at the fastest speed.

Soon, the dilapidated ruins of the church appeared before their eyes.

The scene it presented left everyone present stunned.

According to the report, all the members of the Pure White Saint Sect, whose faith had been shaken by the previous riots and who had even fought against their own people, all knelt on the ground without exception, crossed their fingers and closed their eyes in a prayer posture.

Because there were too many people, the half-ruined church could not accommodate them, so the crowd even continued to the streets outside. Everywhere you looked were believers.

No one spoke, no one moved, and no one even responded to the sudden arrival of Aize and others.

Just kneel down.

Just pray.

It seems that apart from this, everything in the real world is irrelevant.

The scene was very terrifying.

If he couldn't still feel their breath, Aize would have thought they were dead.

And in the center of this scene, stood a figure.

A white and familiar figure.

"Haha, isn't this Aize? You've worked hard fighting off the undead. How come you have time to come to me?"

Rosalyn Meredith, with her usual smile, greeted Aize calmly.

The weakness and illness mentioned in the previous intelligence were completely gone.

Chapter 118 I want to play a game with you

Rosaline's recent condition, which was as bad as a critical illness, was presumably due to the suspicion and malice of the residents of Lilbas.

The effects were so intense that they completely deprived her of her ability to move.

Considering that the public opinion environment is almost irreversible in the short term, Aize once thought that it was very unlikely that Rosaline would become a problem for him again in this incident.

But unfortunately, he was wrong.

Rosalyn stood up, back to normal.

And there is a high possibility that he stood up with the help of the Faceless Man.

This is not good news.

But at least nothing serious has happened, so Aize doesn't need to be too nervous.

He took a quick look around the half-ruined church and found nothing unusual except for the believers who were praying with their heads bowed like statues.