259 Chapter 259 Clues and mories
With the crowd moving away due to the intimidating presence of Desmond and i, the place found itself quite desolate within minutes, after which Xiauyue ordered her n to secure a wider periter and let them work.
Gradually the pressure around i cald down and both her ki and her appearance returned to normal, Desmond on the other hand although he cald down like i, looked visibly exhausted by his small display of power.
It was not only about his wounds that had not yet fully recovered but also the stress that his body had undergone in the last twenty-four hours and being unable to regain his mana reserves also added a degree of pressure on him.
Ignoring his exhaustion Desmond approached the place where Xiauyue’s n secured the body they found and there it was ... what little was left of a person, of a poor girl, soone with dreams and desires like every human being that had now been reduced to just a bloody remnant of what it once was.
And as cold as Desmond could be at tis, at this mont his heart filled with a genuine sense of pity, what had been done to this person in front of him was simply inhuman; sothing Desmond would only wish on his worst enemies.
The skin on her face was ripped away, her eyes gouged out, so teeth forcibly extracted, the girl’s scalp seed to have been cut from the base with so spots showing the upper part of the girl’s skull.
The girl’s arms had been broken into at least three sections, all of her fingers showing so type of injury, whether cut or broken, with her fingernails being removed.
The girl’s legs were broken similarly but the thighs showed what appeared to be at least hundreds of small shallow cuts and the girl’s private parts were so damaged that it was not even possible to determine if there were any kind of sexual abuse.
But what bothered Desmond the most, what make him turn all the grief he felt into intense fury was the blood, the way all the wounds on the body showed so bleeding; Desmond was almost certain that the girl suffered all of these injuries while she was still alive.
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Unfortunately in addition to all the above, there was nothing else that Desmond could discover about the body, with barely so clothes or any kind of possession it was not possible to identify the body with all the damage done to it.
“Did you discover sothing?” Asked i who was standing next to him all this ti watching with a sowhat disturbing stillness.
“Not really, all the damage done to the body was done while the person was still alive and it doesn’t seem to have any other purpose than to cause pain, added to the way the body was disposed of in a not too hidden public place; I can assu that the person who did it is not only a sadist but is also an extrely confident person.
Another thing that strikes is that he managed to leave the body in this place without being seen so he must be very good at stealth or he must be a person of significant strength.
Given the degree of damage to the body, this person took his ti torturing his victim so he had to have a place that was secluded enough or large enough to have the privacy necessary to do this. ” Desmond explained in detail.
His explanation touched on topics and details that normal people had not even considered which took Xiauyue and i by surprise who were not related to the forensic investigation thods and criminology that people from a civilized world would be relatively more familiar with.
“And that is what you call not discovering anything?” Xiauyue replied reflectively as she took a ntal note of the thought and deduction process that Desmond had just briefly explained.
Desmond smiled bitterly and customarily shrugged as he replied, “It may sound like a lot but it’s no use if I don’t even have a starting point from where I can find a suspect; luckily I have a little trick that can help ”
Under the confused gaze of both girls Desmond reached out to take the hunter’s book and focusing his intention on it, Desmond withdrew a small pendant made of what appeared to be bronze, with intricate patterns carved into the pendant; it carried what looked like a small piece of the amber set.
A bit reluctant Desmond hesitated for a mont but ended up putting the pendant on his left ear and reciting the incantation necessary to activate it: “Show a mory from the distant past, with the world as a witness, no secret remains hidden.”
Small particles of the arcana are always present in the world but hidden from those who do not know its secrets and are oblivious to its gifts began to gather in the piece of amber on the pendant before forming what looked like a cloud of luminous dust in the area where the corpse was.
While so of the luminous particles settled on the ground in a kind of amber mist, other particles condensed and clung to what appeared to be two fuzzy shadows.
Just a couple of seconds later the enchanted spell in the pending term of being conjured and the three people present were able to contemplate what seed like an accelerated recording of all the events that occurred in this place in the last hours.
Of course, being an enchanted spell on such a low-level item, its effects had many limitations, in the first instance the spell only worked in an area of ??a couple of square ters, the spell could only reproduce events that occurred in the last eight hours in the place where it was activated; lastly, the mories displayed by the spell were always amber in color and it couldn’t reproduce any sound at all.
Even though such limitations seed quite restrictive, the ability to see what happened at a given mont in ti in a given place was still extrely useful; especially when it ca to conducting research.
The strange scene of shadows and ghosts of amber appearing and moving quickly caused a great fright to i and Xiauyue but after noticing Desmond’s calm, they ca to the understanding that this was Desmond’s doing.
Ignoring the reaction of both girls, Desmond manipulated the illusion generated by the spell to begin to see the events that occurred in this place from the present and backtracking at high speed as he tried to find the mont when the body was abandoned.
Desmond only hoped that the scene he was looking for would occur within eight hours or he would run completely without clues but it seed that luck was on his side because after a few monts of turning back ti in the illusion Desmond saw the scene he was looking for.
By then both i and Xiauyue had co to deduce roughly what Desmond was doing so they also paid close attention to the scene.
Needless to say, the trio was quite disappointed that the scene where the corpse was abandoned lasted only a couple of seconds and that the person who left the corpse was covering their appearance quite well leaving little to observe.
In addition to an approximation of height and complexion, Desmond could not obtain anything else, so disappointed he could only put his hopes in his two beautiful companions, hoping that they would notice sothing that he overlooked.
Xiauyue who was paying close attention to the arcane projection seed to notice sothing that made her move closer to look in more detail as she asked Desmond to replay a specific mont of the recording.
“A tool that allows you to see the past,” Xiauyue said but after seeing that Desmond refused to comnt on it, she only rolled her eyes for a mont before pointing to sothing and saying: “You see that insignia, there embroidered on the sleeve of the tunic that he wears under the hood; it’s pretty well hidden and I can only look at part of it but I’m pretty sure that’s the insignia of the treasure and dicine pavilion. ”
With Xiauyue pointing to the partially hidden insignia both Desmond and i ca closer to see it, it was subtle but certainly part of an embroidered pattern although probably only soone quite familiar with the different insignia and ranks within the sect would have recognized it.
In i’s case, she didn’t usually pay much attention to this sort of thing and Desmond on her side was simply too foreign to the sect to know, if it weren’t for Xiauyue comnting on it, Desmond would have thought it was rely a random pattern on a tunic.
“Well, now we have a clue, the problem is that the treasure and dicine pavilion has hundreds of mbers” i comnted.
To which Desmond quickly replied: “A few minutes ago we had thousands of possible targets, now there are only a couple hundred, we just have to narrow the list a little more”
“Desmond is right, for now, we know that he is soone from the Treasure Pavilion, and from what we know so far it is unlikely that he is neither an outside servant nor disciple, simply neither the ability nor the resources to do sothing like this so we can discard them which greatly reduces the list; even inner disciples would not necessarily have a residence private enough to have a torture room in it. ” Xiauyue chid in continuing Desmond’s line of thought showing that the girl had a sharp enough mind as ever.
i nodded in acknowledgnt and continued: “That leaves us with core disciples and sect staff with so kind of status as elders or deacons, that greatly narrows the list of suspects but also makes things difficult; none of those people are easy to deal with ”
“i is right, it will not be easy to directly investigate those people unless you have so plan in mind,” Xiauyue said directing her attention to Desmond.
“Well I have so kind of plan but I don’t know if it will work and even if it does it will take ti and the first ti it did not work very well” Desmond explained with a bit of irony.
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