Second floor of Lichtenstein Castle.
As night fell, the corridor seemed to merge into the darkness. The only light came from a row of ancient chandeliers hanging in the middle of the hallway.
Beyond the windows on either side of the corridor, dim mist lingered, making the castle's trees and the distant cliffs seem to fade from view.
The Young Master of the Chamber of Commerce from the Canberra Kingdom, the brother-and-sister guards, and the returning Frei were preparing to receive the Earl on the first floor.
Before Earl Parocas of the blood race arrived, the others also had an important task to handle--
They had to reform the captured female priestess of the Rebirth Church and obtain complete information about this Shadow World from her.
Lanchi said he was not good at interrogation. He had always been softhearted and could not bear to see others suffer.
The three clerics, meanwhile, had spent years fighting cultists, but they had never carried out an interrogation either.
Generally speaking, defeating these bizarre and unpredictable cultists was already difficult enough, let alone capturing them alive.
Even if they did capture one, clerics like them were not allowed to interrogate cultists on their own. There had been cases where someone had communicated too deeply with a cultist and ended up unknowingly falling into depravity themselves.
However, thanks to the professional legal guidance provided by the Lawyer, anyone who captured a Resurrection Cultist in the Shadow World could, as long as they ensured their own safety, interrogate the cultist by any means they wished!
Thus, to make up for the three clerics' lack of professional skills, Lanchi had invited an expert to train them.
Outside Bedroom 202, where the female priestess prisoner of the Rebirth Church was being held.
"Executioner, you'll be in charge