Lord of Mysteries:The Good Witch
Chapter 265

Detective and Commission

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If Miss Magician truly was a descendant of Abraham, perhaps Angel could give her this notebook and let her know that there had once been an Abraham who had sworn to restore the family, taken a Potion at the wrong time, and died in this basement.

Of course, given that the notebook contained three formulas, she would have to negotiate the price carefully.

After putting away the Brown Notebook, Angel surveyed the basement once more. Aside from the desiccated flesh crawling all over the floor, there was nothing else of use, so she left.

Before leaving, she used Cursed Black Flame to burn the flesh and clean up the basement, seeing off this Abraham whose corpse no one had claimed.

Though he had been reckless, he had indeed died for the revival of his family.

When she returned to the second floor, Angel was surprised to find that the head of the corpse that had previously lain at the corner had grown back onto its neck. Its eyeballs had not fallen out either, instead showing the swollen state of someone long dead. She examined the corpse again and found that the deceased had died of suffocation caused by a broken cervical spine and collapsed trachea.

There were marks on his neck from being strangled forcefully, but their angle was opposite to normal strangulation marks. It seemed that he had strangled himself with both hands.

Ordinary people could not strangle themselves to death. Combined with the strange staircase from before and the illusion of the corpse, Angel guessed that the Wraith she had just burned to death had possessed this thief and controlled his body to kill himself.

Could that dead Abraham descendant have become a Wraith due to some lingering resentment?

As Angel pondered this, she decided to find time

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