As time passed, large numbers of drones entered the forest, surrounding the woodland around the castle and forming a cordon.
Camera after camera trained on the castle, recording around the clock.
Ke Meng wandered through the woods and found the centaurs' Cremation Site.
The site had already been cleaned up, leaving only dry soil scorched by the cremation and grass stained with dried blood.
The Director-General had returned to oversee the post-battle work in Koi City to prevent another surprise attack by the Door Organization.
Ke Meng crouched down and touched the scorched soil. A slight chill brushed his fingertips, and through Synesthesia, he vaguely glimpsed a scene from the past: a mad centaur being cremated.
During the cremation, something inside the mad centaur had tried to emerge, but its body had been too weak to sustain the birth of that power. In the end, it had burned to death.
The illusory scene from the past kept burning, then vanished without a trace after ten seconds.
Luo Yuan followed beside him and also crouched down to touch the parched soil. Only after sensing it for several minutes did he catch a fleeting glimpse of flames.
"What did you see?" Ke Meng's voice sounded beside Luo Yuan's ear.
"It looked like someone burned to death. Hmm, probably a centaur-a centaur that had gone mad. I don't know why the centaurs burned it. Infighting, maybe?" Luo Yuan mused.
Luo Yuan looked up and saw Ke Meng touching the grass stained with dried blood, his expression intensely focused. It seemed there was some secret in the blood, and he spent several minutes using Synesthesia.
Luo Yuan stood up and joined Ke Meng's investigation. He touched a black blood clot on the Black-Blood Grass with his fingertip, heightening his senses to receive the hidden