The methods of interrogation needed no reminder from Liszt before they were applied to the Shadow Incarnation. After a round of flesh-and-blood suffering, the diminutive assassin finally confessed everything.
His name was Sisley Shadow, an inheritor of an Ancient Warrior legacy—a Shadow Incarnation—from the distant western empire, the Kushan Empire. He had been dispatched to the Flame Kingdom by Jupiter the Great, emperor of the Kushan Empire, to investigate news of the Holy Dragon—the Invisible Dragon.
"There were five Shadow Incarnations in our group, all of us lying low across the Flame Kingdom. But one Shadow Incarnation left with news of the Invisible Dragon a week ago. There are still three others... I don't know where they are hiding. I was responsible for gathering information in River Mouth City."
"How do you contact them?"
"Every week, we gather at a tavern in Dragon Valley City to share intelligence. By my reckoning, the next gathering will be in three days."
Liszt narrowed his eyes. He finally understood why Smoke's mission had yet to be completed despite capturing this Shadow Incarnation. Three more Shadow Incarnations were still lurking in the dark. And one had already left Flame Island—there was certainly no way to hunt him down now.
"Kushan Empire..." A grave thought flickered through his mind, but he quickly suppressed it.
He continued interrogating Sisley Shadow.
First came Sisley's personal professional information. Shadow Incarnations were one kind of Ancient Warrior. They did not cultivate battle qi, but magic power; every cultivator possessed dark-element magic power. Unlike magicians, they fused dark-element magic power into their bodies and used it to transform themselves.
This allowed their bodies to merge into any shadowed environment through a special method.
"We were originally all Earth Knights. After displaying dark-element battle qi, we were selected by the royal