Fintan, who lunged out like he didn't want to die, caught his brother in a very thrilling way.
But before he could rejoice, the rift began to close silently.
There was no time to yank his brother out and risk having both of his own hands amputated.
"Let go!"
Qishi took one step and was at the knight's side in an instant, kicking him out and then casting holy light into the fissure that had closed to the size of a finger slit in the blink of an eye.
Fintan, his hopes dashed, is in pain.
Eleazar realizes that if their roles were reversed at this moment, and the person being taken was one of them, he would jump in even if he was cut off.
"Why are you leaving!"
"If you had come with me to break through the manor, nothing would have happened!"
Allowing the knight to whack away, Eleazar inclined his head silently.
Qishi looked around the dungeon and saw nothing but a mass of evil experimental equipment and an overwhelming number of grieving souls.
It seems that all the people taken by the ghouls during this time have lost their lives here.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
The knight lowered his head and said hollowly:
"It's my fault for failing in my duty, I secretly got the magic potion to make him an illegal transcendent, giving him the ability to do whatever he wants, it's all my fault..."
Eleazar listened quietly as Fintan took all the fault on himself.
At this moment, he finally somewhat understood Finnian's intentions.
His biggest mistake as a brother was this inexplicable sense of responsibility.
I don't know where I got the stimulus, but I always like to blame myself for all the injustices that happen around me.
Wanting to be an upright and valiant knight of justice, but not having the strength to match...
Eleazar analyzed it quietly, and suddenly his eyes narrowed on something else.
Quickly, he walked over to Qishi and picked up the blood-like crystals at her feet.
Continuing to turn on his sensory sight, he pivoted futilely through the darkness rising from the dungeon full of the wronged souls, and slowly made his way to the wall.
Coming to an instrument, he pulled out an odd instrument that emanated void energy fluctuations.
"What the hell!"
Qishi was already standing over him.
Eleazar looks down and studies it, "It's a 4th-order star core in an instrument..."
"Void and mechanical?"
With that, he put it away carelessly.
"You're hiding things in front of me?"
Qishi inclined his head, "And that red stone just now, that's your promise to be obedient?"
Eleazar calmly explains, "I'll bring it in to study it first, gather more clues, and see if I can figure out what happened to the ghoul."
"It better be true."
Qishi turned his head faintly.
Eleazar looks at the silver rear end, "You... Is there a twin sister?"
That white figure just now, they all saw it.
But Qishi didn't explain anything to them, he just opened the dungeon door with a flat face and walked out very calmly.
Eleazar withdrew his eyes and thoroughly inspected the dungeon again, finally coming to the motionless knight.
"Still disheveled?"
Those dark eyes slowly lifted.
"Did you already know?"
"Finnian couldn't even hide that kind of experimentation from you if it had been going on..."
"And then what?"
Eleazar looked at him and said calmly, "You're willing to let me kill Finnian?"
"You... Can you tell me..."
"So you'll put Finnian in his place?"
Fintan's heart shook violently at once, and he jarred his lips feebly, unable to say anything.
"Find him first, and take your time deciding what to do with him after that."
With that, Eleazar turned to leave.
Fintan rushed to catch up and asked, "You think Finnian might still be saved too don't you?"
"Uh-huh."
"As smart as he is, while still being a researcher sequence, he shouldn't be executed right away, and the odds are good that he'll be sent to a lab somewhere and have his value squeezed out of him by people day and night."
Eleazar blandly voiced the most optimistic of the guesses.
There is only room for a certain amount of despair in the human heart, and he did not tell the grieving knight the worst, and at the same time the most likely, truth.
Finnian and Ghoul were working together before, one taking people and the other dealing with them.
But when they actually arrive and completely lift the lid on this hidden evil lab, they see Finnian taken away with his near-death body.
What the hell just happened to them?
Why was a Legendary Grade Blood Crystal left behind at the scene?
Then there was that amazing star core, the first time he'd ever seen such a thing work as an energy source.
Back outside the atrium, Eleazar craned his head at the sight of the Pisian flowers in the garden.
"Didn't you say you saw Finnian seemingly writing to someone earlier, find all the things he's been contacting outsiders with and see if there are any clues."
Since they don't know the true purpose of the ghouls, they can only gather information from the Finnian side now.
And the worst scenario is that the other side has accomplished the purpose of the trip and is ready to start returning.
And that meant that they might have to chase them to Loran to bring out the one who was really behind it all.
Fintan can move freely, but he can't get away from the holy light.
Eleazar clenched his fists at once.
"You have a good look around the house and don't let anything of value go."
"So where are you going?"
Fintan subconsciously looked up at him.
"I'll go to the church, the Acolytes seem to have crusaded against that ghoul before, I'll read the investigation."
...
Leaving the manor that looked like a monster's playground, Eleazar glanced at the dim night sky that had returned to normal, lowered his head, and slowly walked into the church that gave off a hazy glow.
There was already something icy in the way the district bishop looked at him.
"Resuscitating the dragon..."
"I'm really curious as to why you haven't been backfired by the Dark Reaping Ritual yet."
Eleazar said calmly as he looked into the bishop's two-eyed gaze:
"I want to see a combat report on the blood source dolls!"
The bishop stared coldly at him for a long moment.
It wasn't until the nun brought a file to him that he withdrew his gaze.
"Prickly~"
Only to see the bishop look through the file for a moment, then suddenly lift his hand and tear open a few pages, raising them into the air and causing the brownish-yellow pages to ignite directly in the air.
Eleazar's figure shifted.
"The contents of those pages are confidential to our church and cannot be disclosed without jeopardizing your investigation of the ghouls."
The bishop gave a cold explanation, before tossing the file over.
Eleazar catches it and turns away without a word.
Finding a seat on the steps in front of the church, he silently flipped through his previous investigations in the light of the glow behind him.
[Real name: Unknown]
[Codename: Blood Source Doll]
[Species: Ghouls]
[Level: Legendary]
[Sequence: Blood, Corpses, Overeating]
[Description: This target can control the blood of species lower in rank than itself at will, as well as manipulate corpses in any sense of the word, and can constantly evolve by feeding on corpses to gain their characteristics. In its long path of evolution, it has collected countless corpses to manipulate as if they were dolls, and no one knows exactly how many doppelgangers it has...]