Under Tara’s lead, Ciel walked downstairs step by step.
At this moment, there were no maids waiting in the villa. Everywhere lay overturned furniture and shattered antique decorations, and many bore bloodstains.
This was due to the impact of “Sadhana’s” descent earlier. Let alone the ordinary people within Ciel’s villa, probably the entire street had been significantly affected…
It was likely that members from the Queen’s Sword or the Investigation Department would soon arrive to investigate.
“Is the area sealed off?” Ciel looked at Tara beside her.
“Rest assured, Lord Ciel, this entire street has already been sealed off by the church.” Tara slightly lowered her head. “Church members have successively entered the area to provide treatment for those affected.”
Tara’s handling of affairs was quite reassuring. She always thought several steps ahead for Ciel.
Tara led Ciel to the dining room door. Ciel slowly raised her hand, pushed open the dining room door, and looked inside.
A corpse still lay in its original position, but compared to when it was first seen, this corpse had changed significantly.
Cora’s skin had completely faded from deep wheat-colored to deathly pale, and her entire body seemed to have shrunken.A pool of black pus, formed from congealed black blood, lay sprawled around her corpse, like a mass of reddish-black goo.
And on the semi-circular top of this pus, beneath the stretched-to-its-limit membrane, a fist-sized eyeball, presumably made of pus, constantly rotated. Its gaze alone seemed capable of inducing hallucinations in ordinary people.
This was a mixture of corroded “Limit Breaker” spiritual materials, which had separated out from Cora’s body.
“Lord Ciel.” Percy, who had been guarding here, slightly lowered her head and moved aside upon Ciel’s arrival.
“Mm.” Ciel lightly nodded in response to Percy. Then, she focused her attention on the corpse.
Cora.
Previously, she had no connection with Ciel. The only link between them was that Ciel had once held a senior consultant position under Cora’s Deton Group, and nothing more.
However, during their conversation just now, Cora clearly acted as if she knew Ciel very well… She even directly confessed that things in the simulation had gone so smoothly largely due to Cora’s contribution.
No wonder, after arriving and hearing all this, Ciel wondered why her ‘luck’ was so good…
Cora… when exactly did she start communicating with “Sadhana”?
Why did she initially mistake Ciel for “Sadhana”?
This is illogical.
If Cora had truly communicated with the mysterious Sadhana from the beginning, she shouldn’t have such strong hostility towards the Divine Advent Church.
After the sacrifice incident at Deton Manor in Berren City, Cora had directly ordered a large-scale purge of Divine Advent Church members throughout the entire group, rooting out many hidden Divine Advent Church infiltrators…
Could it be that she obtained that pendant at that time?
Ciel shifted her gaze to the corpse’s neck, looking at the golden necklace.
She half-squatted beside the corpse, extended her right hand, gripped the necklace, and slowly lifted it.
Crack—
With just a slight movement, the corpse’s spine snapped like a fried crisp, and the skin in contact with the necklace decayed under this slight movement, flowing down like thick liquid…
The necklace was directly lifted from the corpse’s neck by Ciel, effectively “cutting off” the corpse’s soft, rotten neck. Black and reddish, foul-smelling pus and blood flowed onto the floor, forming a stark contrast with half a section of reddish-white spinal bone, like fries on ketchup.
Blood dripped down the golden necklace, but not a single drop adhered to its surface, and its pendant at the bottom swayed gently, reflecting the surrounding oil lamp light.
“Alright, Teacher.” Percy took a few steps to Tara’s side and examined the item in Tara’s hand.
“Eloise… that’s the name of the Archbishop who went missing before,” Percy immediately recognized the initial and said, “Previously, she was undercover in the Deton Group, serving as the Bliss regional manager…”
Bliss regional manager?
Wasn’t Bishop Braque, the pirate turned Divine Advent Church member, converted in Bliss City?
“Was Bishop Braque a believer she baptized?” Ciel asked.
This Bishop Braque was the “Radiant Bishop” Ciel encountered in Berren City, and also the first true Tier 3 enemy Ciel had faced.
Later, it was only by sacrificing Braque and several Divine Advent Church members that the Divine Servant was summoned.
“Yes, Bliss City was the parish Eloise was responsible for.” Percy nodded.
The Divine Advent Church had always maintained one-way communication. Clergy members hardly knew anything about each other. It was normal for Tara, also an Archbishop, not to know about Eloise.
However, Percy, a higher-ranking Cardinal, clearly possessed information about Eloise.
Lucy was the one in charge of the investigation in Berren City. She probably knew something…
“Help me call Lucy over…” Ciel looked at Tara. After thinking for a moment, she added, “And Avena.”
She needed to ask Lucy for some information to verify her suspicions.
As for bringing Avena…
It was to make the corpse speak.
Besides “Coroner,” the only path that could make a corpse “speak” was the “Listener” path.
“Soul Walker” might have a way to learn something from Cora’s corpse.
“Yes, Lord Ciel.”
Tara departed as commanded, while Ciel, on the other hand, began to gather the shattered crystals on the floor, collecting them onto a cleared section of the dining table and trying to piece them back together into their original form.