Inside the inn, Li Si tossed the corpse in his hand aside, then casually reduced all three bodies to ash with flames, cleaning up thoroughly.
Charles, who had already received Li Si's treatment, sat obediently to one side. He did not even blink as he watched Li Si destroy the evidence.
The information about the great pirate Blood Shark Patrick obtained from those three men was already the most valuable intelligence.
Although the three were not particularly strong, perhaps because they were Heretic Believers, their mouths had been remarkably tight.
Li Si had tried many Enchantment Spells before prying some information about the Church of All Beasts from them.
The Church of All Beasts did not have many people on the East Coast of the Bertich Kingdom. Its main forces consisted of two high-ranking priests.
One was the Gold-level Druid Patrick mentioned earlier, while the other was the Gold-level warrior Petar.
As a great pirate, Patrick stirred up trouble across the Pearl Sea, raiding merchant ships to seize all kinds of goods and capture slaves.
Petar, meanwhile, controlled an underground gang. He ensured Patrick's operations ran smoothly, then sold the goods and slaves Patrick acquired through various smuggling and illicit channels, reaping enormous profits in the process.
The Church of All Beasts' arrangements here were basically centered around those two.
As Petar's subordinates, Marquis and the other two had remained in the ports along the East Coast of the Bertich Kingdom. This time, they had received orders from above to capture Charles and extract information about the Oak Council from him.
The Oak Council was not a name unfamiliar to Li Si.
It was an extraordinarily ancient Extraordinary organization. Most of its core members were Druids, and they revered the deity Father of the Oak - Silvanus, a great being