A ripple of silence echoed among the four people who silently stared at the corpse.
Since this house has just been built, no one has lived in it before...
So where did this body come from?
Aiwass subconsciously looked back at Sherlock.
——Is this your problem?
Although Sherlock is not in the form of a child now... but from another perspective, doesn't the detective who turned into a child encounter all big cases after returning to his adult form?
Sherlock glanced at Aiwass inexplicably, then walked up very consciously, squatting down to observe the body.
But as soon as he squatted down, he frowned.
Because the body was so clean, there were no clues at all.
She is a female elf who looks to be in her twenties or thirties, with short brown curly hair. She is also wearing a red robe that can only be worn by a bishop.
——This is an elf bishop.
After she was released, her abdomen gradually became soaked. The blood slowly seeped out from inside. But it only slightly soaked through the palm-sized clothes and stopped spreading.
Her expression was also very calm, without any signs of struggle. Her skin still retained its elasticity, and her skin was white but not pale, and her body temperature was only warm but not cold.
It was as if she had just died when she opened the cupboard.
According to the "preservation ability" just introduced by Cardinal Matilda, it can only be determined that her death time will be within one month.
"...It is completely impossible to determine the time of death."
Sherlock shook his head and tried to collect the rest of the information: "The wound is on the abdomen... Can I check it?"
He said, politely looking back at Cardinal Matilda who remained silent.
After all, he is no longer a child now. Although the deceased is right in front of his eyes, this is not Avalon. As a consultant to the Inspectorate, he does not have the authority to touch the corpse at will in the Theocracy.
Cardinal Matilda sighed: "Come and check, Detective Hermes."
Hearing this, Sherlock took off the clothes of the corpse and examined the wounds.
And Aiwass realized from Cardinal Matilda's expression and attitude that she seemed to know this person.
When Shylock was examining the body, he approached the Cardinal and asked, "Who is she?"
"Her name is Mercedes, you must not recognize her."
Cardinal Matilda sighed: "But Gray knows him."
"...Your Highness the Saint?"
Aiwass was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "Are you Pure White's friend?"
——If he didn’t have a “long date”, then the person who accompanied him here at this time and introduced these facilities should be the Gray Saint.
Then she will see the body fall out of here... and it may even fall directly into her arms.
"He is a mutual friend of Gray and Yannis. He also grew up with them."
Cardinal Matilda shook her head and spoke slowly: "Maybe the relationship is not as good as between them. But now she is the only friend who stays with Gray..."
...Is this a provocation? Is anyone dissatisfied with Gray?
Aiwass had such an idea in his mind.
——No, that’s not right.
Aiwass immediately dispelled this somewhat fluky idea.
It's not that simple.
Because the only people who entered this house, except for the papal guards who came to put their luggage before, were the owner of this house and other cardinals.
Judging from Cardinal Matilda's reaction, it seems that the fact that the Gray Saint began to become amber is not a secret. In other words, other cardinals are very likely to know about it.
Judging from the saint's overly heavy feelings for Janis, it seems that her amber syndrome is related to the fact that Janis left her without saying goodbye for two hundred years.
At this time, if you kill the saint's only remaining friend and expose the body in front of her eyes... there is no doubt that it will stimulate her to further condense.
Ava's heart suddenly tightened.
...So it turns out that the plot has already begun?
"It's a little weird, I'll talk about it later."
Sherlock put his clothes back on, stood up, turned around and frowned and said: "The amount of bleeding is too small, it may be due to other reasons. Because logically speaking, this kind of wound should not be enough to kill someone, let alone a bishop...
She should also be at the third level, right?"
"Yes. As far as I know," Cardinal Matilda replied, "Bishop Mercedes has reached the third level on at least three paths - she is not a professional, but a inheritor."
"Inheriter?"
Aiwass was a little confused: "What's going on? Aren't the Pope's guards all inheritors?"
"Although some young elves... such as Yanis have careers, Gray and Mercedes are both inheritors. She is a candidate for the saint."
Not all young elves have a "career".
After all, the career system is a new thing recently developed by Weizhe and Sha Shijie, and it has just appeared for more than a thousand years. Through the approval of the corresponding professions by Zhu Shen and Tiansi, the corresponding authority symbols are provided.
In this way, the scattered and chaotic professional inheritance was successfully anchored in the name of the gods.
This can ensure that the extraordinary person will not go astray, and it can be regarded as sorting out the ability system. It allows the extraordinary abilities that were originally the same for each person to be integrated.
It is entirely possible that the ancient extraordinary beings in the past accidentally read some occult books that they should not have mastered, and mastered some mysterious knowledge that deviated from the path. Their souls were contaminated and deflected to another path, or on the same path.
Schizophrenia arises from accepting knowledge of different great beings.
This is impossible under the professional system - it is not within the scope of abilities that the profession can master, and even the mysterious skills of the same path cannot be mastered. As long as the job transfer is completed, you can directly obtain extraordinary abilities with a high degree of completion.
And as long as it is a path that someone has walked, others who follow this path and pass the test can obtain the same career and the same abilities.
This is also a kind of "disenchantment", which belongs to the core authority of sand timepieces.
For example, "Enlightener" is a profession transformed from the inheritance of a saint.
Aiwass is most likely the first person in modern times to master the Enlightenment's job transfer, because this profession may have just been accepted by Weizhe. It is also possible that this is a profession that Si Zhu does not want believers to take up.
Thinking back now, Sizhu's most standard god's name is "the god who binds the body with sin thorns" and "the god who burns the body to chase away the darkness".
These are the two professions that Si Zhu directly belongs to.
The latter obviously corresponds to the Burning Torch, while the former corresponds to the Enlightener - in other words, the Enlightener is destined to be bound by the Thorn of Sin.
Si Zhu did not want his followers to bear the original sin that should have been borne by him, so he did not encourage his followers to transfer to the Enlightenment. That's why he came to Aiwass and asked him if he wanted to transfer back to the Burner.
In ancient times, it was the inheritance path opened up by an elf saint. Her inheritance was not written into the tantra book, but was buried in the ruins - the statue she turned into after her death.
, it should be on the sixth or seventh floor. Only by touching the statue of the saint can you find the possibility of finding a job.
This is like a decryption game. The password to the safe is theoretically in another puzzle. But this number is fixed, and Aiwass entered it directly after checking the guide.
But not all inheritances of extraordinary power have been set as professions by the two pillar gods.
Those inheritances that require the mixing of multiple paths, or even require special bloodline or skill inheritance to be completed, are basically not recorded as professions. For example, children of the moon, werewolves, and demons transformed into demons.
Another example is some special inheritances mastered by elves...or "shepherds".
The biggest difference between professionals and inheritors lies in the directionality of the resonance of the path.
The soul of a professional will be affected by the profession and purified by the path... Just like Bishop Mathers, he has been stuck at level 39 for a long time.
He has said before... that he has delayed completing the advancement ceremony and stepping into the fifth level because he is worried that he will be infiltrated by the power of the fifth level and change his personality and sanity.
The transformation of the body by professions can make the status of professionals more stable and prevent them from losing control or losing strength.
The inheritor must rely on his own resonance with the path to reach the corresponding energy level. Once he loses the resonance with the path, his ability will even decline - this is a relatively primitive state. It is like a person who has not exercised for a long time.
Muscles will turn into fat, and skills that have not been learned for a long time will be forgotten.
Without the anchoring effect of "career", once you completely lose your original intention - even just for a moment, you will immediately lose your extraordinary abilities.
But for elves, whose emotions are much more stable than other races, they basically will not lose their strength due to this reason. The elves believe that the "professional system" is mainly born for short-lived species with more unstable emotions.
Ability is a power that only short-lived species try to master - over a long period of time, elves have full time to carve themselves into a posture more suitable for accepting the corresponding inheritance.
Although many elves are less than a thousand years old and were born after the birth of the professional system, they will still become inheritors.
This mainly comes from the influence of elders and society.
"In my opinion, one of the reasons why Yanis left the Theocracy was Bettinadia's Ningpa."
Cardinal Matilda said slowly: "Bettinadia is the inheritor. She was originally Yannis' mentor.
"Sometimes Gray will tell me that she thinks there may be a reason for Yanis not coming back. In our Theocracy, the status of inheritors is generally higher... After all, the profession is there, and everyone can
You can change jobs, but the inheritor must have someone to guide you one-on-one. Having an inheritance means that you have a mentor, you have parents, and you have reliable, trustworthy, and traceable social relationships.
"So we elves have a very strong concept of inheritance. Sometimes the mentor who inherits the mantle is more important than the parents.
"In adolescence when the world view is just beginning to be formed, in order to receive the inheritance, you need to stay with your mentor for a long time. The time you spend with your parents is more than ten times longer. In order to prevent parents from having a negative influence on their children, some mentors deviate from the inheritance.
If necessary, they won't even let the children go home.
"From this point of view, Yanis is like an orphan. After Betinadia Ningpa, although Yannis could choose other tutors to continue her studies, she still chose to escape from the Theocracy and became a
Professional…”
Cardinal Matilda's eyes were complicated: "I think, at least at that time... she should have felt inferior. They might have quarreled, maybe not. But since then, Gray's words have become much less frequent, and she has stopped going.
Make new friends.
"Bishop Mercedes is Gray's only friend. She has received the same inheritance as Gray, but because her personality is more lively, her affinity for the saint is much lower. She can also be said to be a 'failed saint'.
Female'. While Gray reached the fifth level of the dual path, Mercedes could only touch the third level.
"Her journey has come to an end, but she is unwilling to turn professional. Perhaps it is because of her pride, or perhaps she just wants to accompany the lonely Gray. Therefore, she has been hanging on the 21st floor for a long time, continuing to accept the saint.
Practice... I have always thought that this is good. At least little Gray can have a companion and someone to chat with her.
"...Fortunately, the one who comes here with you is not Gray."
