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Chapter 141
Upon seeing the female ghost, Seonghyun first opened the quest window.
He needed to find out what kind of quest it was, after all.
『Bloodstains in the Alley』
→《Rare-Linked》
→You have discovered a bloodstained floor in a secluded alley of the city Pentagrid.
Considering the city's peaceful state of security, this trace implies that sothing terrible has happened to soone.
However, no body was found, and aside from the traces of the cri, clues are scarce.
Identify the owner of this trace and uncover the hidden truth.
Obtain clues about the murder.
→Restriction: One who has discovered the bloodstains in an alley of Pentagrid.
→Reward: Experience points, next quest.
‘Hmm.’
From what he’d heard, this quest appeared if you visited this particular alley.
A quest that was surprisingly easy to obtain for a Rare-rank one.
But most people supposedly gave up because no one could even find a single clue.
That certainly seed plausible.
How could anyone find additional traces of a murder just by looking at bloodstains in an alley?
Seonghyun also searched, just in case.
But there were only signs of the murder itself; no footprints or any such traces left by soone were visible at all.
It was understandable why most would give up.
However, Seonghyun was different.
A female ghost with a haggard appearance.
He could see her.
At the very least, he possessed an advantage on a completely different level than others.
Since all ghosts in the ga were NPCs, this female ghost had to be the murdered NPC.
Anyway, as Seonghyun looked at the female ghost, her eyes welled up with tears as if she were about to sob.
She must have suffered a terrible injustice.
But upon seeing Seonghyun, she seed to gain so composure and spoke calmly.
“Sob… eting such a noble person like you, it feels as though all my sorrows are being comforted.”
“May I try to find out what happened to you?”
Although he phrased it as a question, he was already preparing to absorb her mories if she agreed.
It was much faster than listening to her story.
Perhaps the female ghost instinctively sensed this, as she shyly nodded her head.
The thought of having one’s mories read could be a bit embarrassing, but the ghosts were uniformly well-disposed towards Seonghyun, so not a single one had ever refused.
As Seonghyun thus absorbed the mories of the female ghost who had consented:
[You have accomplished sothing impossible at your current level with an ‘Unknown Power’.]
[Intelligence
5, Wisdom
5 will permanently increase.]
‘Oh?’
Seonghyun was sowhat surprised by the higher-than-expected stat increase.
To think she was so easily murdered when she could grant such significant stats.
Wasn't that a bit puzzling?
However, as he checked the mories flowing in like a panorama, he understood.
‘Ah.’
The fact that she was an incredibly skilled alchemist.
She had a laboratory in the Labyrinth and was conducting research when she ran out of materials and returned to the city for a mont.
That’s when she was murdered.
Horribly, at that.
It was quite a painful mory.
But Seonghyun paid it no mind and delved deeper into that mory.
He was wondering if there were any clues.
‘Hmm.’
-This is what happens when you carry things like this around instead of leaving them in the lab, lisia.
-Keuk, g-give it back… L-Lint.
‘They knew each other?’
Seonghyun imdiately searched the victim, lisia’s, mories and recalled the man nad Lint.
And then he understood.
“The underworld?”
-Heh, hehe. D-Despite how I look, I’m an alchemist who operates in the underworld.
“Aha, so that’s how it was.”
An alchemist operating in the underworld.
That’s why she had built her research lab in the Labyrinth.
The man nad Lint was also a mber of that underworld, and he had been particularly close to lisia.
That’s why lisia had trusted him.
Yet, such a terrible thing had happened.
Because lisia had focused solely on research, her combat abilities were lacking.
She had no choice but to fall helplessly to Lint’s surprise attack.
“Hmm.”
He had found out who the murderer was.
The problem was.
‘The quest ultimately requires obtaining clues, right?’
Going to find Lint imdiately was an option, but…
‘If I go to Lint without clues, aning without evidence, and say, "You're the culprit!
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