The heavy stench of blood mingled with rot, leaving their heads dull and sluggish.
Dried bloodstains stretched onward along the dim, narrow passage.
The skulls by the walls had long since lost their souls, yet their hollow eye sockets still watched this group of uninvited guests.
He Xi edged closer to the side of the passage, sensing whether the same abnormal magic from the ground above was present around them.
"This place is normal."
"If we bypass the ground above and find a spot outside the shop to use [He Xi Safety Spell], I wonder if we could tunnel directly in here."
He examined the wall before him.
The edges of the wall were made of uneven chunks of stone, cemented together with gray clay.
It did not look like some ancient ruin. It seemed to have been built not long ago.
"So crude... was this dug out temporarily?"
Investigator Evan Creel's report mentioned that he had begun investigating the murders two months ago.
He Xi could not be sure whether the Watchers had noticed when these Bhaal worshippers committed their first murder.
But by his estimate, this bloody storm had begun no more than two or three months ago.
The notes recorded that Bhaal worshippers had to commit murder, then conduct some kind of ritual to please Bhaal and gain power.
Combined with the identity verification when they opened the door earlier—the person holding the dagger...
So this place had been built to carry out murder rituals and receive power bestowed by Bhaal?
What puzzled He Xi was that Valkenheim, not far to the south, had once seen a massive outbreak of Bhaal worshippers. There should have been plenty of abandoned sites left there.
Why had these Bhaal worshippers rushed to establish a new one in Fernandez?
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