Mystic Dominator

Get the information about the three mysterious people from the priest.

To be on the safe side, Ronald went to the herbalist and carpenter first.

According to the priest, these two people have multiple generations of records of living in Celephas, and they are also considered innocent, so it is more suitable to understand the situation first.

——The fact is also true.

After running back and forth in the village, Ronald completed negotiations with the herbalist and the carpenter in less than an hour.

At the time of the incident this morning, their location was corroborated by other people, which can fully prove their absence. This alone can exclude them from suspicion.

Then, there is the remaining blacksmith.

Because he came from another country, this person was actually the most suspected person, but given that Willard and the other three had done investigations before, Ronald didn't pay too much attention.

The main purpose of inquiring about the knowledge of these three mysterious sides is to obtain information.

Even if Father Coney had no intention of withholding any information from him, there was still so little he knew.

However, when Ronald came to the blacksmith shop.

The expression on his face became serious.

It was almost noon at this moment, but the door of the blacksmith's shop was closed. Judging by the deserted appearance of the foyer, it didn't look like it was about to open today.

"..."

After silently staring at the blacksmith shop for a few seconds, Ronald casually stopped the passing villagers.

"Little brother, isn't the blacksmith shop open today?"

The young man who was stopped was stunned for a moment, and then he replied in some confusion:

"How do I know this?"

"But as for the blacksmith shop... it seems that it has not been open since yesterday afternoon."

"Thank you."

After a simple thank you, Ronald's eyes sank immediately.

Without further words, he turned and walked towards the blacksmith's house.

At the priest's side, he had already asked for the address of the three of them, and it took him a long time to find the place.

It was a nearly featureless dwelling not far from the blacksmith's shop.

Ronald stepped forward and knocked on the door.

bang bang bang——

There were three knocks on the door, but no one in the room responded to him.

Is it true that no one is home?

Or is it that the blacksmith who lives here is really behind the scenes?

Or is it a new grimoire victim?

Facing all kinds of possibilities, Ronald did not dare to be negligent.

Pulling out the pistol in his arms and hiding it in his sleeve, he said loudly again:

"Is anyone home?"

"This is the last inquiry! If no one answers, I will open the door violently!"

thump thump——

Three knocks on the door were louder than before.

However, in front of Ronald was still the silent house.

Counting silently for five seconds, Ronald stopped hesitating and stepped forward to kick the door.

Click!

There was a very obvious sound of wood breaking, and then the door slid open.

Because he kicked so hard, even the bolt that locked the door broke from the middle.

However, with the harsh sound of the wooden door being pulled on the ground, there was still no one in the opened door.

There were no ambushes of the enemy, and no horrors to behold.

"..."

Ronald looked around.

Because of his actions, several passing villagers were looking over here.

For myself, this is obviously not a good thing.

Shaking his head silently, Ronald walked into the room and pulled the closed door back to the door.

boom!

He pushed the door back into the frame very forcefully, and then stuck on it.

After this step,

Ronald only had time to carefully look at the situation in the house.

Compared with the previous fisherman's house, the blacksmith's house is really good, and definitely belongs to the better type among ordinary people.

There are corridors, partitions, and floors.

In the living room, where the lighting and ventilation are fairly adequate, there are traces of people living there for a long time everywhere.

The clear water in the drinking glass on the table, whether there is dust in the cooling fireplace, the unlocked and slightly open windows on the walls of the room, all indicate that the place has been inhabited recently.

"uh-huh......?"

Just as Ronald was looking around, he heard a voice vaguely with his keen hearing.

——It was the heavy breathing sound of'huhuhu'.

If you want to make an analogy.

This is like the feeling of a patient with a severe cold and fever lying on the bed because of exhaustion, so he can only breathe heavily.

Click——

With his left hand, Ronald pulled the open window shut, and pulled the curtain to cover it.

At the same time, in the wide cuff of the right hand, a black original script emerged in his hand.

"His name is Styx,

The black water flowed down to the foot of the dark and steep cliff.

..."

Reciting the poem lightly, the black mist that came in response to the sound immediately spread and rolled around the room.

In the blink of an eye, the entire floor of the room was covered with a thin layer of black mist.

Immediately, the ability to perceive emotions allowed Ronald to understand the situation.

At the moment, in the blacksmith's house, there is only one other person besides himself, and the location is in a side room.

The black mist opened the way in front of him.

Ronald was about to go there when he suddenly froze.

—He suddenly had a new idea.

Immediately, the black mist in front of him spread into several layers on the ground.

Ronald just walked over.

The footsteps fell on the layers of black mist, and after buffering, almost no sound came out.

Quietly came to the room where the man was, Ronald turned sideways and looked over.

This glance gave some answers to the doubts in his heart.

Right in the room, Ronald saw a man lying on the bed. This guy was pale and weak. What was even more exaggerated was that the skin on this guy's body was pulled down in a loose manner.

The state shown by the whole person is an appearance of being exhausted by flesh and blood.

Turning to the front and staring at the man, Ronald inevitably doubted the guy's current state.

At the moment, Ronald waved his hand.

The black mist spread and rushed onto the bed, and then surrounded the man lying on the bed.

After completing such preparations, Ronald called out the other party's name:

"Hello, Edmund, can you hear me?"

"Are you still conscious?"

"..."

The continuous calling seemed to wake up the man in the bed.

Hearing Ronald's voice, the blacksmith's weak eyelids moved a few times.

After a few breaths, he struggled to open his eyes.

When he saw that the visitor was in the standard attire of an investigator with a coat and a hat.

In his cloudy pupils, his eyes were extremely complicated.

"Uh... ah uh..."

With an indecipherable sound from his mouth, the man struggled and pointed to the side of the room with his finger.

After completing this action.

The arm that the blacksmith tried to hold up, immediately fell weakly on the bed.

Immediately afterwards, the man also closed his eyes, and continued his heavy and rapid breathing at the beginning.

"Hoo-hoo--"