Meryl Winterwind and Nalaras Sunstrider came to the Violet Citadel again, but this time, they had been invited.
"Lord Antonidas, have you discovered anything new?" Nalaras asked impatiently as soon as he entered.
"Yes!" Archmage Antonidas nodded, pointing at the golden notebook on the table.
"Two of my students found this in Alexis's study!" he explained calmly. "It previously had a powerful protective spell cast on it, but I've dispelled it now!"
Meryl and Nalaras listened quietly, waiting for Antonidas to explain further.
"The notebook contains some very important information... Alexis had discovered traces of a demon, and he suspected that it was connected to the deaths of the four Council members! So he came up with a way to destroy it. He would pose as a mage hungry for power and ask the demon for help, hoping that it would grant him power... Then, while he was making the deal with the demon, he would rely on another powerful mage to seize the opportunity to summon it and kill it!"
Meryl and Nalaras exchanged a glance.
"So Alexis went to Medivh?" Meryl asked softly.
"In fact, he suspected the two of us. He only told us that he was going to see Medivh and kept all the other details secret! Unfortunately, he suspected the wrong people..." Nalaras sighed.
Although Alexis's decision had been wrong, it was understandable. Under those circumstances, the Guardian was clearly more trustworthy than two ordinary members of the Council of Tirisfal.
"Perhaps we could use this method too!" Meryl suddenly said. "He presumably knows some of the details as well? We could summon this demon and interrogate it to get some useful information out of it?"
"I'm quite proficient in teleportation spells, so I'm very confident that I can summon it! And once it's summoned,