Several guards already had their iron shovels prepared. They nodded in affirmation and started digging. A red coffin was carried out of the grave, and they opened the coffin. Maggie’s body was lying inside.
The beautiful girl was covered in dried flowers. She wore a clean, black one-piece. Her eyes were closed and her skin was pale. There were some rotten marks on her neck and face. If not for that, Angele would’ve thought that the girl was just sleeping.
"The coffin’s material is decent. It’s preventing the body from decaying." Angele nodded.
"Yea. The coffin was made from a high-quality wood obtained from the Red Diamond Tree. A large coffin will cost you more than a hundred gold coins," a guard explained.
The gold coins here were different from the ones overseas. The gold coins here had a higher purity and were larger in size, so 100 gold coins in this land was worth about one thousand gold coins in Ramsoda Empire.
The guards put down a large white blanket on the grass and removed the body from the coffin. Angele could smell the putrescine in the air as Maggie’s body was being laid down on the blanket.
The guards covered their noses with their hands after finishing their work.
"Go guard the entrance. Make sure no one enters without my order. Also, tell Rayben I’m still investigating." Angele ordered.
"Yes, master."
The guards left immediately after Angele finished his words. They knew that it was not a good idea to stay near a rotting body for too long as the body might carry deadly virus.
Angele waited for the guards to leave and made sure no one else was around.
He stepped forward and crouched beside Maggie’s body. He quickly removed the one-piece from the body and started checking for internal wounds.
Angele raised his right hand to the air and pointed at the body.
‘Sudden illness… I hope it is true.’ Angele slightly bit his lips.
His right hand was covered in a red glow. Red specks of light dropped onto the body below. Those specks of light started moving around her skin and flickered several times.
At the same time, a black area appeared on her right chest that looked conspicuous in the red glow.
Angele pressed her left breast with the right hand and rubbed the black area several times. He also checked Maggie’s stomach using Zero’s scanning function.
"Sudden illness my *ss," Angele gritted his teeth.
Although he was furious, he didn’t let any emotion show on his face. Angele moved his right hand away from the body and carefully put the black one-piece back on her.
Angele stood up and wiped his hands with a piece of cloth.
"Get over here!" He shouted toward the entrance, and several guards ran to him quickly.
"Master, what’s the order?"
"Put the body back into the coffin and bury it."
The guards returned the body into the coffin and covered it with mud. Angele walked out of the graveyard after everything was done.
‘She was definitely not killed by some random illness.’ Angele sat in the carriage and grunted.
‘Maggie was abused before she was killed. The black mark on her body is the evidence. Moreover, it was a poison from a Green Dot Flower. The poison made her muscles contract, making it look like a heart attack. Whoever killed her must have paid good money to the coroner.’
Angele closed his eyes. Black energy particles slowly climbed up his hands.
‘Let me try this tracking spell I learned recently.’ He drew a black triangle with the energy particles in the air.
After the triangle solidified in the air, Angele took out a small black bottle and poured some gray powder on the edge of it.
*CHI*
After several seconds, the edge of the black triangle turned into translucent crystal. There was a dark space in the middle and a red mouth appeared from the void.
The mouth slightly opened. Angele could hear strange whispers. The mouth was not speaking in Anmag. It was a language that only he could understand.
"Speak, what do you want to know?"
Angele narrowed his eyes.
"Maggie, she was my friend, who killed her?" Angele replied in the same language the mouth was using.
"The largest manor at the northwest of the city. The owner is the murderer," the mouth responded without hesitation.
"Good." Angele’s expression changed.
The mouth slowly vanished into the darkness. The crystal triangle turned into black mist and disappeared. It was as though nothing had happened.
"Rayben, there’s a large manor at the northwest of the city, right? Who’s the owner?" he questioned in a cold tone.
"It’s the Warden’s manor, Gerald," Rayben answered politely.
He noticed the change in Angele’s voice and added, "Master, if you need something, I can do it for you. Prince Justin granted you the highest authority in the city."
"Get the guards to annihilate the whole Gerald Family for me."
"I…" Rayben was surprised, he had no idea what happened.
"He killed my woman," Angele spoke word-by-word.
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