Although he had not met the martial monk grandmaster on this trip to the monastery, he had unexpectedly obtained quite a bit of information from the assassins who had come knocking.
He Xi sorted through the clues in his mind.
[Speak with Dead] truly was an extremely practical spell, capable of directly extracting intelligence from the lingering echoes of the dead. But its drawback was equally obvious—the information it yielded came in fits and starts, highly fragmented.
After organizing the clues they already knew, several things could be confirmed:
First, they were using captives to prepare some kind of sacrificial ritual. Second, tomorrow they would create chaos targeting Griffin Fortress. Third, they were searching everywhere for the whereabouts of the martial monk Damian Shaw, most likely intending to use this grandmaster's head as the most important sacrifice. Finally, the other assassins themselves were also burdened with some kind of performance quota—every ten days, they had to offer the god they worshipped a head matching their own rank.
He Xi had two objectives.
The first was to rescue Mr. Alvin.
Alvin was most likely being held, like those councilors, in a place called "Below the Tribunal," whose entrance was connected to something known as the "Sanders Sarcophagus."
The second was to fulfill his promise to the old bishop Kolfus: to stop the murders as much as possible and prevent more suffering.
At the root of it all, stopping the leader, Saza, should be the most direct way to stop this.
But He Xi did not know the leader's strength, nor did he know where the man was.
So what should he do first?
From their geographical distribution, these incidents were scattered across different parts of the city, which showed that this organization had quite a few members.
But since they belonged