After [Dizang Wang] Qiu Dao left, Reilo walked over to the operating table.
As he took out the remaining Capricorn remains, he recalled how Edward had hesitated to speak because of Bailan during their conversation. He frowned and murmured, "What was Edward trying to say just now?"
He certainly didn't believe Edward would keep something so secret from Bailan over an event two or three hundred years in the future. The fusion Radiation Weapon wasn't public knowledge, but it wasn't exactly a top secret, either. Surely fewer than thirty people under him at the Grand Natural Sciences Academy knew the detailed data.
But it was already late at night, and Reilo didn't want to disturb Edward's rest. In the end, he shook his head and decided not to contact him through the Crystal Ball.
It was clear that the loyal, cautious old scholar had been utterly exhausted lately. Whatever it was, they could talk about it the next day.
With that thought, Reilo focused all his attention on the dried Capricorn remains on the operating table.
Only the torso remained, and the internal organs were intact.
There was no need to say more about the Capricorn's charred, blackened remains. He had clearly died beneath the divine power of the Creator of Light.
The Creator of Light had met an even more miserable end. According to Shatuo, the Creator had been betrayed by his own Pope, who used the ancient Gulan Dark Eye—the very thing that had once sealed Capricorn—to imprison the gravely wounded and exhausted Creator as he tried to return to the kingdom of God.
As for the Pope's collusion with the Witchers, it began when Unnamed was arrested by the Holy See and then released. The Dark World, naturally, wanted such a pawn, so it offered the Dark