When Lawrence followed Mr. Lambert to the living room of the main building of the earl's mansion, he found two inquisitors of the court, wearing pure black robes and warhammers hanging from their waists, sitting there. After greeted each other and introduced himself, Lawrence was left to replace the servants who had been driven out to make tea for everyone.

After taking a sip from the teacup, the two judges looked at each other, and then the older judge looked at Mr. Lambert and said, "How much do you know about your two nephews?"

"I know almost nothing except the name and age." After listening to the judge's question, Mr. Lambert shrugged somewhat helplessly. "As a clergyman, I have a certain understanding of you. At the same time, I believe that you will definitely put me on one side before coming. So you should know that I have very little contact with my family since I left this home, so naturally I don’t understand me. What is going on with my nephew."

"Even my understanding of the appearance of my nephew is learned from the sketches carried in the letter I received from my brother every year before the Winter Solstice. Until now, I have never seen what their real people look like." Mr. Lambert was finished. Pulling his priest's robe reveals the holy emblem on his chest.

"It turned out to be like this." After seeing the holy emblem on Mr. Lambert's chest, the two judges immediately became kind. "Of course we know this, and we also believe in these things you said, the ones you just asked about Questions are just routine inquiries, please don't take this to heart."

"Of course not, I know what your business process is." Mr. Lambert nodded slightly and said, "But since you asked me this question, can you tell me those two things now? Where did a nephew who has been missing for several days? I believe that if you can ask me this question, it means that you must have found my nephews, at least with accurate information about the whereabouts of my two nephews."

After listening to Mr. Lambert’s question, the expressions on the faces of the two judges returned to their old seriousness, and after they exchanged glances, the younger judge said in a very heavy tone. To. "We did find your two nephews in a valley near that hunting ground early this morning, but they have all passed away."

"Didn't you try to resurrect?" Mr. Lambert asked. Although the resurrection service is unattainable for ordinary people, it is not unattainable service for hereditary aristocrats who have sufficient background.

Especially after calculating the time, he found that his two nephews were still in the resurrection time even if they were found dead from the beginning. That's why he asked the two judges this question. But after hearing this question, the judge's expression suddenly dimmed a lot.

"We failed to try to resurrect your two nephews, that's because--" The judge took a deep breath and said. "That's because your two nephews didn't find their heads when they found out, so we—"

"I see." Mr. Lambert shook his hand holding the teacup and splashed out a few drops of clear tea. Then he took a deep breath and calmed down, put the teacup on the saucer on the tabletop, lowered his head and said that an important prerequisite for resurrection is that the corpse remains intact. Obviously, a corpse without a head cannot be resurrected.

"Sorry, please." The two judges also bowed their heads at the same time to express their condolences to the family of the deceased. The whole living room was suddenly quiet enough to be heard. Until Lawrence, who was next to him, interrupted the awkward silence.

"Can I ask how my two cousins ​​died?" Lawrence asked the two judges. "Or was their body found in the same place?"

After hearing Lawrence's question, Mr. Lambert also raised his head and stared at the two judges opposite. Obviously, he also hoped to get more information from the mouths of these two judges.

"Yes, your two cousins ​​found it in the same place. We even used an internal mage to release prophetic spells with certain magic props, but we didn't find it. In the end, it was the ranger who was patrolling. I noticed that the dog I brought had a strange reaction, so I found it by accident while chasing it around." The apparently younger judge said.

"And what we found in that pit was not only the corpses of your two cousins. In the covered burrow, we found five or six hundred corpses with their heads missing. Some were very fresh, but some were completely The ossification of people. According to our inspection, the death dates of those who died range from a few days ago to twenty or thirty years ago."

"How does this sound like some cult sacrifices?" Lawrence frowned. The death of such unreasonable personnel often involves a series of follow-up questions related to the lower planes.

"Yes, at the scene we did detect a sacrificial trace related to a powerful existence on the lower plane. Obviously, all the dead on the scene have become sacrifices to a powerful existence on the lower plane." Nian Said the longer judge. "Doing so also put our investigation into trouble."

Because in such sacrifices, the souls of the dead will be directly consecrated to the powerful beings on the lower planes. In this way, the psychic magic of the undead system, the soul-calling magic naturally cannot summon the soul of the dead. On the other hand, the power of the lower plane itself also prevented those prophetic magic from producing effects.

"This is indeed very troublesome." Lawrence shook his head, because of the world itself, so when investigating cases, he will rely on those extraordinary powers to some extent. And if the help of extraordinary power is removed, it is difficult to find enough clues only by relying on the investigative methods similar to the level of Lawrence's last life in the mid-19th century.

"However, based on the inspection of the corpse-throwing scene, we believe that your two cousins ​​were not killed by cultists as sacrifices, as it appears to the surface." After saying a lot of depressing information, The older judge told Lawrence and Mr. Lambert about the results of their previous investigation.

"Didn't you accidentally encounter a cultist while hunting and was killed by the cultist?" Mr. Lambert asked with some confusion to ~lightnovelpub.net~ because all the evidence now seems to point to this. Kind of possibility. Even from a rational point of view, the timing of their deaths is too coincidental, so that it feels like they were specially arranged.

"Of course it's not that simple." The elderly judge said very seriously, "Many excessive coincidences are not real coincidences, but the result of some deliberate arrangement. Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, we checked In the cave where a large number of corpses were piled up, it turned out that your two cousins ​​were thrown here after being killed by sacrifices elsewhere."

"We tracked down the altar of the evil **** where your cousins ​​were killed, and thoroughly cleaned up the members of the cult organization. However, we unexpectedly discovered that the cultists who killed your cousins ​​before were all mysterious. disappeared."

"Missing?" Mr. Lambert frowned, because this situation could not help but remind people of the word murder. Especially after questioning the inquisitor, I learned that it was only a weak cult dedicated to a certain demigod Barro in the Bottomless Abyss. In theory, it would not look for cousins ​​like Lawrence. This would seem to attract one. Lots of troublesome people as sacrifices.

"Yes, we think it was the messenger behind the scenes who cleaned them up." The elder judge said, "So I am sorry that we cannot find the whereabouts of the real murderers for the time being."