He Xi hadn't forgotten Barton's request, so he brought the conversation back to the tragedy that had befallen the estate.
"So Tami discovered what Vio Bell had done to you, and he silenced her?"
Jasmine's spirit radiated waves of sorrow and anger. "Vio Bell did kill Tami, but... her soul told me she didn't know about any of that.
"She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time...
"She didn't even know why Vio Bell wanted to kill her."
"Then why not release that vile soul and ask him?" Loris pointed at the Goblin skeleton that was still being tortured and said indignantly, "In the name of the Holy Light, I'll interrogate him myself!"
"I can't." Jasmine's voice was filled with helplessness. "I can control the mirror, but I'm not its true master. Tami... I could communicate with her only because she approached me of her own accord."
"As for Vio Bell... I can't communicate with him at all. What you're seeing now is the result of me exhausting almost all my strength just to force the mirror to stuff his soul into that Goblin skeleton. Even doing that nearly made me disappear."
"There's another soul, the one called Slag," she added. "The mirror controlled him, and I took the opportunity to kill him. I can't communicate with him either, so I could only make him enter the larger skeleton."
"Blood Axe Slag?" Loris looked astonished. "The mercenary leader who occupied the Shadowcrack Mountains? He's dead?"
"Yes. I lured him here and used the mirror's power to kill him."
"Ah-ha! So that's what happened!" Loris suddenly clapped his hands, his face dawning with understanding.
"That explains everything!" He seemed eager to explain. "I fought that giant-axe skeleton for ages. Just as I was about to purify it completely