Hao Ren had not expected to see the title "King of Blood" here again—not in a manuscript left behind by a wizard, but in a diary written by an ordinary human. As the Data Terminal finished deciphering the writing remaining on the parchment, certain things began to grow clearer.
The "Heimowen" mentioned in the diary matched the nameplate outside the mansion. It could now be confirmed that he was the lord of the town of Domir and several surrounding areas—a minor noble from some remote rural backwater. The person who had left behind these parchments had not recorded his own name, but it could be determined that he was Heimowen's butler. The events mentioned in the diary had apparently taken place during the final period before the town underwent its transformation. The writer's unease could be felt between the lines: a series of bizarre incidents had enveloped the town, while shadows and unrest filled Domir.
It seemed to have begun with an infectious disease. The information Lily had heard from the spirits and the writing on the parchment both recorded this incident. The children in town had one after another contracted a strange illness that gradually drained their strength, and ordinary medicine had no effect. In that dark age, such a thing carried an ominous air, and people would naturally associate it with witchcraft and curses. Yet Lord Heimowen, faced with the spreading rumors, had done nothing at all. His "personality had changed, and he began listening to a so-called scholar of unknown origins." Not only had the lord failed to find a way to cure the disease, he had instead launched a witch-hunt, all at the urging of that foreign "scholar."
There were not many records concerning the witch. Hao Ren had no way of determining whether she had