The Divine Hunter Chapter 15: Sudden changes in the palace

"On December 27, 1260, Basheer was fishing on the Wigan River and accidentally discovered the affair between Simon Patrick Latin, the Knight of the White Rose, and Queen Amelia..."

"The knight panicked, drew his sword and stabbed Bashir, then fled with the queen."

"Later, the injured Bashir was caught by a metamorphosing spider that went out to hunt, and eventually died tragically."

“Because this adultery was discovered, the queen decided to cut off her ambiguous relationship with Simon Knight, but the latter was unwilling. The intertwined love and hate went to extremes, kicking off the Seven Deadly Sins Ceremony of the Sun Cult... …”

"Simon worked with the knights to select and kill targets, and in the end he became a sacrifice..."

After the witcher finished narrating in a low voice, he put away the black-cased notebook and stuffed it into his arms.

"So, the murderer who stabbed Bashir is dead," Old Huck's orange-peel cheeks were red with tears, and his tone was unbelievable, but also with a hint of relief, "died by suicide?"

"Yes, the body is still in the morgue, but it is not accessible to ordinary people... If you want to take a look..." Roy paused, "Only his church member, Serge, can be seen The burnt corpse of Knight Watteau."

Old Huck closed his eyes and was silent for a moment, his whole state relaxed,

"I know, and I'm really grateful... Now that the murderer is dead, I think Bashir can rest in peace, and I have no regrets in my heart." Old Huck stared at Roy with his cloudy eyes, and suddenly pleaded, " I had set a remuneration of 200 kronor before, but I only borrowed 150 kronor after scraping here and there, which is still 50 short. Can you give me a few days of grace until the house is sold..."

"Don't worry, Old Huck will never default on your debt!"

The witcher crossed his arms, looked around, and suddenly asked,

"You must have lived in this house for twenty or thirty years. Are you really willing to sell it?"

Old Huck was stunned by the question, his eyes swept over the stove, mottled floor and walls with nostalgia.

"Bashir's bones are still in Airland. Where did you go after you sold the house?" Roy glanced from his white hair on his temples, his thin, wrinkled face, and his slumped old body. But, "As I say, don't sell the house!"

"Master Roy, thank you for your consideration," Old Huck shook his head stubbornly, "But I can't take advantage of you! You have helped me a lot."

"I never said I would give up the fifty kronor!" The young man suddenly smiled heartily at him, "I have wanted to try your craft for a long time."

"When the bakery reopens, I will use the baked bread to pay off the bill - and when I come to Elland again, you will let me eat as much as I want for free."

"This..."

"We have made an agreement, just don't mind me eating too much when the time comes!"

……

"Oh, a quarter of the reward is missing, how generous I am!" The young demon hunter shook his head with a self-deprecating look on his face, and walked out of the bakery door with 150 crowns in his arms.

If the client is a group of foul-mouthed people, he will not lose a penny.

But Old Huck is just a lonely father who lost his child. Roy has gone through the whole process of his sacrifice for his son, and he really can't bear to take away his last hope.

"Just this once, never again!"

……

The Potbelly Tavern.

"We never imagined that..." The bearded coolie took a sip of ale, and the alcohol came to his cheeks and he spat, "The murderer is a 'noble' Knight of the White Rose."

The skinny monkey-like companion sitting opposite him narrowed his eyes. “We usually pretend to be the protector of Elland, but secretly do this kind of murderous and illegal business. We are really cheating.” Scum!"

"No, you said something wrong. There are two murderers. It's just because of internal fighting that the spoils were unevenly divided, so the death of one of them is tragic."

Skinny Monkey shook his head, "I heard that they killed people to complete some vicious ritual. Otherwise, why would Knight Salvatore be burned at the stake? In the past, this kind of cruel punishment was only Used to deal with those old witches who have practiced evil witchcraft!"

……

"Gulu...Gulu..."

The young witcher took a sip of slightly sweet fruit wine and wiped the wine stain from the corner of his mouth,

"Sure enough, the truth has been almost completely confused. What kind of murderous and vicious ritual..."

"Isn't this obvious?" said another bald man with a bandage on his chest and a bruised nose and face. "A prince and grand duke in Siward certainly don't want his scandal to become known to everyone."

"It's a pity that I didn't get to see Queen Emelia next to Siward," Roy shook his head and said, "How can a country be so beautiful that it can captivate Knight Simon!"

Two days have passed since he found the witcher and solved the mystery. The bald man's injury has improved, but he will have to rest for at least a week before he can fully recover.

In fact, Leisuo was not severely beaten by the two knights when he was locked in the secret room. Instead, he was slightly dehydrated and weak due to lack of water and food.

Only the horrific wound between the chest and abdomen was more serious, but it was left by Francis before.

"We'd better not provoke that high-level vampire again. Although he behaves strangely," Roy had a complicated view of the guy, "But he is not a treacherous and evil person. He fought with you because of You mistook him for the murderer and set up an ambush first."

The young man recalled the short poem that the high-level vampire recited when he said goodbye, and vaguely felt that the other party seemed to have seen through everything long ago and even gave a reminder.

"I have my own sense of proportion." The witcher took a sip of the dwarf spirit and didn't know whether he heard it or not. "To get to the point, you finally lived up to the expectations of me, Seret, and Oaks, and passed the grass trial. Refining——"

A glimmer of hope flashed in the big man's eyes, "Becoming the only fresh blood of the Snake School in the past twenty years is the will of fate, the first step in the rise of the Viper School!"

When Roy heard this, he pinched the exquisite Snake School pendant around his neck - it was given to him by Leisuo yesterday, the official identification certificate of the Viper School as a demon hunter.

There has never been a moment when he felt as full of belonging to the Snake Sect as he does now.

"After the Green Grass Trial, I can feel the weak magic power. Can I learn the seal?" The young man looked at the bald man expectantly.

“You can’t bite off more than you can chew,” the demon hunter said. “You have completed the courses that other apprentices have taken for several years in less than a year. It’s time to settle down and polish your skills for a while... not to mention the surgery. You've been half-dead on stage for more than two months, but your swordsmanship and crossbow shooting skills haven't deteriorated?"

"A little backward..." The young man's dark gold eyes swept over the demon hunter and joked, "But I will not be captured by two knights of white rose..."

The bald man's cheeks twitched, and his expression instantly darkened.

Just as he was about to speak, a strange noise suddenly came from the window of the tavern, and a group of people poured out from the direction of the palace, including servants in light robes and fully armed guards. There was also a fat middle-aged man with a crown on his head and a white cloak, surrounded by guards.

They were shouting and looking terrified, as if they were driven out by something terrifying.

"What happened to the palace so early in the morning?"

The two people’s questions were quickly answered.

The dwarf Dennis Kramer came to the door again with several of his men.

"Master Leisuo, Roy, I'm sorry to disturb your recovery." The dwarf said with a respectful and bitter smile, "The situation is extremely urgent now, and I think no one else in the entire Elland City except two people can solve this big trouble! ”

"Big trouble?" An irrepressible smile appeared on the corner of Roy's mouth,

This cuckold prince is really a troublemaker.

He looked at the big man asking for permission, and the other man nodded.

"Let's talk about it."

The dwarf sent two of his men outside the room to guard the door, then restrained his voice and stated,

"The thing is, just this morning, the maid who was looking after Queen Amelia heard a strange cry."

The dwarf recalled the description of the maid,

“The cry is full of sadness, resentment, anger and various negative emotions, like the cry of a ghost, which makes people’s hair stand on end.”

"She opened the door of the queen's bedroom to check, and then found... she found a man standing motionless in front of the queen's bed with his back to the open door, his head hanging down."

The dwarf paused for a moment, with a strange look on his face.

"That **** thing is floating on the ground!"

"No feet, wearing a navy blue, wrinkled translucent dress."

"Two thin and long arms were covered with corpse spots, and her face. I also saw that face later - there were no features of a living person at all, with black nostrils and eye sockets, and her face was It’s all blue-gray air-dried meat.”

"I think this is a ghost! It screamed and scared the maid away, and then chased after her! But when it reached the door, it stopped and lingered."

"It seems like it can't leave the room!"

Hearing this, Roy had a guess in his mind.

"The whole palace was alarmed. The brothers went to check together, only to find that there was not only one ghost in the queen's room but eight!"

The two demon hunters' eyes froze when they heard this, and they were also frightened.

With eight demon spirits in the same room, they are no less dangerous than vampires, right?

"I swear I have never seen such a formation in my life. Even when I faced thousands of fully armed soldiers on the battlefield, I didn't even blink." The dwarf lowered his head, as if he was ashamed of his timidity. Feel ashamed.

"But these two ghosts screamed in unison, and everyone was scared to death! I still can't understand how I could be so scared at that time, and I turned around and ran away without even fighting, as if I was possessed by an evil spirit. I I can only reluctantly take His Majesty the Prince with me and escape from the palace with everyone."

"To be precise, these things are not ghosts, they should be called demon spirits...Their screams are equivalent to a spiritual attack that can instantly destroy the courage of most people. You don't need to care too much."

Roy gave the dwarf a calm look to soothe his restless mood.

"But whether it is an ordinary demon spirit, a day demon spirit, a plague banshee, or a penitent spirit is still unclear. ~IndoMTL.com~ There is one thing I can't figure out. What's wrong with Queen Amelia's room for no reason? How many demon spirits will be mixed in? This kind of thing is unheard of." The young man paused, "Is the queen okay? She can't be missing."

The dwarf looked gloomy and was speechless.

The bald demon hunter's face was extremely serious, "Things like demon spirits usually do not appear in human settlements. What's more, there must be some special reason for so many appearing at once."

"Cramer, do you have anything to explain to us?"

The dwarf was silent for a moment after hearing this, and he was so troubled that he almost pulled off his beard, "Now that the matter has come to an end, I won't hide it from you two. In addition to the group of demon spirits in the room, there is also Queen Emelia's... The queen's body..."

"Queen Amelia hanged herself in her room! The body is still hanging there."

The dwarf’s thick beard trembled, and his tone was heavy and sad.

"You solved the last serial murder case with your own hands, and you also know the details of the case. It has only been two days since His Highness Siward learned about the affair between the Queen and Simon. He was so angry that he ordered her to be placed under house arrest. , no one expected that the queen would suddenly commit suicide."

"What happened last time is not over yet..." Roy realized. It was obvious that these demon spirits that suddenly appeared had something to do with the secret rituals of the Sun Cult.

Although Simon is dead, the seven crimes have been ended and the ceremony is completed...

And the way he died in the end - with two wings of flesh and blood behind him, does it contain some deep meaning?

"I am sure that one of the demon spirits was transformed by Queen Emelia."

"There are another seven, haven't you noticed? The number of victims is exactly the same as the previous murder."

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