Seeing that everyone was already present, Ava declared that the meeting had officially begun at that moment.
In the past months she has been working as the acting ruler of her nation, so she has also learned a thing or two by now.
"Originally I was thinking of helping you out in getting the world tree sapling back and then minding my own business…"
"But with the little elf girl Emu’s death, the possibility of the False Dome Cult being involved here has become a fact!"
"So I have decided, I will personally deal with the False Dome Cult and help you in resolving anything they might be planning…"
Sylvia and the other elves don’t know about the False dome cult, so Sylvia hesitated a bit and asked,
"Uh, are you and the members of this demon cult on very bad terms perhaps?"
Jareth nodded his head at those words.
"Not just me; the entire human empire is on bad terms with this demon cult; they have slaughtered and killed thousands upon thousands of innocent people." Stay tuned for updates on freewebnovel
"Just a few months ago, they nearly succeeded in summoning an ’Incarnation of a demon god’!..."
"You know what an ’Incarnation of Demon god’ means? It’s a harbinger of total destruction; it could have been a massive catastrophe for the entire world…"
A demon god’s incarnation can deal with dozens of grade 1 mages at once! Such an existence is too dangerous to be allowed to roam freely in the world.
In that brief moment of life and death, the incarnation scanned the entire planet and accomplished its goal of locating all the golden nails!
If such a being was left free to roam, it could destroy civilizations without a moment’s hesitation!
"I see, if they are capable of doing such a thing, they are indeed a powerful group…"
Sylvia couldn’t help but feel even more worried about her older sister now.
If such powerful people have made it inside the forbidden area, they can definitely harm her too, or maybe they are the reason why she’s gone missing.
"That person who’s capable of using extremely dangerous forbidden magic to turn living beings into walking bombs is called Fisur Jolmoh; he’s a grade 1 mage…"
"I have heard a lot of rumors about his evil feats… If we want our plan of saving the world tree sapling, then we might have to be ready to clash not only with him but more members of the False Dome cult…"
"Also, we need to hurry up; they are already inside; we don’t have much time; we shouldn’t dilly-dally…"
Hearing Jareth’s words, Sylvia sighed.
"It’s not that we don’t want to enter fast; it’s that the entrance can only be opened once every six months; there’s still a week’s worth of time left for that…"
"By the way, is there any way to defend against this forbidden magic? How does it actually work? Can it turn anyone the other party touches into a bomb?"
Jareth shook his head at those questions.
"No, no matter how skilled he might be, there’s no way he can turn living creatures into bombs just by a simple touch; he likely has to prepare complex magic circles…"
"There must be rare materials used."
At Jareth’s words, one of the knights sitting beside Sylvia asked in a confused tone,
"But Emu’s father said that the little girl hadn’t gone missing more than 1 hour in the last week or so… Could it have caused the mutation in just one hour!?"
"And when did this Fisur guy even come inside the capital city? We never noticed it! There were no fluctuations of a person entering the outer barrier of the city!"
Keep in mind that even Jareth created a gap and created a few small mana fluctuations when he forcefully entered the barrier even with his mana singularity.
Which means if Fisur had entered the barrier, the knights in charge of guarding the barrier and keeping an eye on the mana fluctuations shown by the barrier would have definitely noticed him.
There’s no way he could be better than Jareth at mana control, despite the fact he doesn’t even have mana singularity.
"I think the answer to it is actually quite simple… Ms. Sylvia, has there been any Elf or any knight that has just recently died from some sudden organ failure or something like that?"
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At Jareth’s question, Sylvia contemplated for a bit and then spoke in a calm tone.
"Ah, come to think of it, old man Boyan recently died of heart failure… ah! Could it be!?"
Jareth nodded his head at Sylvia’s shocked look.
"Yes, that old man likely opened a small gap in the barrier for him to enter…"
Another knight immediately refused to believe it.
"No way! That’s impossible! Old man Boyan will never betray us! He’s the one who trained most of the current strongest knights for the palace!"
Jareth nodded his head at those words and explained properly.
"Well, I never said he betrayed you… I only said that he opened the entrance for a small time for Fisur…"
"The answer is simple… Old Man Boyan must have gone outside the capital, and the barriers ranged on one of your so-called training missions for the newbies recently…"
"That’s where he ended up getting caught by Fisur; if it’s a grade-3 or higher level, it will usually take an entire day for the mutation magic to take effect on the person…"
"And it takes even as much as a week for grade 2 mages… Grade-1 mages are partially immune to this kind of mutation…"
"But children, weak-minded people, and old people are the most vulnerable to this… Fisur barely would have needed half an hour to turn the old man into his puppet…"
Jareth sipped the tea served to him by the maid and continued in a calm voice.
"Don’t assume that Fisur is only capable of using one type of forbidden magic; he likely has a ’lot’ of forbidden magic in his arsenal; it won’t be wrong to assume that…"
"Either he tempered with the mind of the old man in a physical way or he perhaps straight up hypnotized the poor old man into doing his bidding…"
Then Sylvia interjected and asked a question that was bugging her for a while,
"But how does that relate to his death?"
Jareth glanced into her eyes and spoke in a calm voice.
"What will happen to you if someone forcefully messes up with your brain and internal organs using forbidden magic when you are already old and weak?"
"The answer is obvious… The old man Boyan died not because he was old but because Fisur used him and then got rid of him; this way, people thought that the old man died of old age..."
"Then he went ahead and used the mutation magic on the little girl… One hour is plenty of time for the mutation magic to take effect on a weak little girl who couldn’t even use mana yet…"
Jareth glanced at the frustrated looks on the faces of the knights and shook his head.
"No need to blame yourself; the other party is grade 1 mage; he hid his mana fluctuation; that’s why you couldn’t detect him…"
"In fact, it’s actually a good thing that he ignored you guys and you didn’t find him… A maniac like him could have already destroyed your entire capital city by now if he wanted…"
"By the time I would have come here, there would have only been a destroyed ruin left filled with rotten corpses, nothing else…"
Jareth was just saying the truth; Fisur likely was pressed on time and didn’t want to waste too much time staying in the city; that’s why he left after only messing with Emu.
If he had time, he wouldn’t have just killed one little girl and left; he would have slaughtered the entire population of the elven capital.
’Or perhaps he lost interest in killing these guys because they are already on their death’s door, and it won’t be much interesting to torment already depressed people who are losing hope in life…’
The elven population is slowly dying out anyway; people who are already on death’s door and are depressed to the point of falling apart won’t likely interest maniacs like Fisur, who wants happy people to die.
’Yeah, come to think of it, most maniacs usually only target people who are minding their own business and living a happy life…’
’I guess living like a crazy maniac will increase your chances of survival in this world as the villains will mistook you to be their own type of person…’
(Imagine being so chaotic and messy in life that the miasma just ignores you and goes away, saying, ’Nah, no way, bruh, I ain’t made out for this sh*t…’)
"But how do we make sure he didn’t do the same thing to other residents of the capital…"
Hearing that question from the knight, Jareth shook his head and spoke in a calm voice.
"You don’t need to worry about that; I have already scanned the entire capital city of yours; there’s no one else who has the matching mana fluctuations inside them like Emu had…"
"That guy Fisur was able to deceive me once, but the same trick won’t work on me again… I have already figured out the mana fluctuation patterns from that one encounter…"
"If another similar person walks up to me, I can in fact already undo the forbidden magic used on them…"
Jareth wasn’t bluffing; his mana singularity isn’t just for show; you show him a mana pattern once, and he distinguishes it again easily from tens of thousands of mana patterns without any problem!