Secret

Before entering the cave, Felina stopped Gloria and Lizer behind her and said solemnly:

"Careful!

There are still a large number of undead creatures here. Judging by the aura, they should be at the Knight level. Based on the air humidity and this putrid stench, I'm guessing they are zombies.

Zombies all have a physique above 3.0, boasting strong resistance to physical blows. Their strength is also close to 3. Only their agility is relatively low, but they can release plague toxins and corpse poison around their bodies.

Both of you are close-combat fighters, so it probably won't be easy for you to fight them. It's better to let my skeletons go in one by one and drag them out."

Lizer was fine, but Gloria felt a bit awkward. She thought to herself:

I am a dignified deputy chief of the police department. I said I was coming to help, but I ended up just being a bystander the whole time.

Awkward...

Fortunately, there were only thirty-six zombies in the mine. However, capturing and contracting them took the three of them nearly an hour, and twelve of the more fragile skeleton soldiers had their soul fires shattered, perishing completely.

After confirming there were no more zombies in the mine, Gloria and Felina repeatedly cast several Cleansing Spells into the cave.

Feeling the air become fresh, and after Felina tested that there was no residual toxin in the air, the three slowly entered the underground cave.

After some exploration, they confirmed that this was indeed an abandoned mine, and there was no such thing as a large amount of residual minerals as one might imagine.

The Grey Mist Mountain government couldn't be that incompetent; before listing it, they had already used appropriate methods to confirm that the minerals were mined out.

The mine's structure had been reinforced with witchcraft and was fairly stable.

The underground mine space was incredibly large. A rough estimate suggested there were nearly thirty thousand square meters of usable space, which could be considered a free plot of land.

"Careful!"

Felina suddenly shouted, noticing an anomaly, but unfortunately, it was too late.

Ripples spread through the air like on the surface of water. A translucent ghost suddenly emerged from the adjacent pit wall and lunged into Lizer's body. Lizer only felt himself suddenly fall into a swoon, his mind turning muddled.

Fortunately, Felina immediately took out a pouch of purification water and splashed it onto Lizer. Wisps of pale, translucent black smoke rose, and the ghost detached from Lizer with a miserable howl.

Jolted awake, Lizer felt freezing cold all over, as if he had been drenched in ice water. As the purification water slowly seeped into his body, waves of warmth finally began to emerge from within.

Lizer felt a wave of frustration:

This was the second time he had been attacked by a ghost. What kind of constitution did he have?

Moreover, the Director of the Land Bureau, Slav, had clearly warned them about wraiths. Because he hadn't seen one earlier, he thought it was false information, only to end up being possessed and having his soul devoured by one. Thank goodness Felina saved him in time.

The wraith hissed at the three of them in the void, but two of the three now possessed terrifying energy auras, and the purification water on the other, who was originally an ordinary person, was also an energy that could harm it.

Driven by instinct, it wanted to slip away.

Felina quickly took out two rolls of beast tendons from her bag and infused them with purification water.

She cast the Hand of Witchcraft, controlling the two rolls of beast tendons to form a cage emitting a faint golden light to trap the wraith and prevent it from escaping. Then, she cast Channeling Witchcraft, intending to contract this wraith.

The wraith in the cage put up a fierce resistance, not hesitating to collide its soul body against the purification water-soaked cage in order to escape.

Unfortunately, its strength was too weak to break free. Lizer stood by, using purification water to help Felina replenish the cage's power. Felina's fair face grew increasingly pale, breaking out in dense beads of sweat as if she were collapsing from exhaustion.

After a moment of stalemate, a look of joy appeared on Felina's face, and she exhaled a breath of stale air. The wraith was finally successfully contracted:

"What great luck!"

Through Felina's explanation, Lizer and Gloria learned that this wraith originally had a very strong obsession.

This kind of obsessive wraith generally cannot be contracted by necromancers...

But nothing is absolute. Some necromancers conducted in-depth research and discovered that if they could resolve the obsession of such an obsessive wraith, they could successfully contract it.

Furthermore, compared to ordinary wraiths, these obsessive wraiths have stronger growth potential and can grow alongside the wizard.

If the obsessive wraith's obsession cannot be resolved in a short time, it will cause a backlash against the necromancer, taking a long time to dissipate.

Through the feedback of the Channeling Witchcraft, Felina learned that this wraith's obsession was actually to kill Police Captain Wilson.

Yes, the very Wilson who had died during Lizer and the others' previous mission.

That was why Felina said she was very lucky. The obsessive wraith confirmed the completion of its obsession through the unique soul contract of the Channeling Witchcraft, allowing it to successfully complete the contract with Felina. Having completed the contract, Felina also incidentally learned the cause of the wraith's obsession.

The wraith was Bobby, the younger brother of the original mine owner. About six years ago, because his brother discovered a secret of Viscount Weissman's family, the Viscount secretly ordered Wilson to murder his brother's entire family in the abandoned mining area. He himself was strangled to death by Wilson's own hands; Lizer also recalled that tragedy he had heard about when he was still young six years ago: Bobby's family in the mining area had been wiped out by undead monsters that unexpectedly appeared in Grey Mist Mountain Town.

Hearing Felina mention that Wilson had wiped out Bobby's family, Gloria agitatedly raised her knight sword and angrily slashed at the pit wall, sending rocks flying: "That damn dirty cop Wilson! And that bastard Viscount Weissman, to actually brutally murder his own subjects for a secret!"

Speaking of the 'secret', Gloria blinked and looked at Lizer and Felina. The previous stories of the two caused her to make a bad association. She widened her eyes and asked tremblingly, "Holy crap! No way!"

What kind of secret required killing people?

Rice ordered Felina to kill because of espionage and treason.

And Viscount Weissman's cruel behavior similarly bore deep suspicion. Regardless, this secret must involve a massive crime!

Lizer thought even further and could basically confirm his own speculation. He had originally wondered how Rice, having been in Gele for only a month, could rely on precise information to find people like Wilson and Felina, who were down on their luck and highly likely to join an enemy spy organization.

This clearly indicated that he had extremely powerful intelligence forces backing him within the Red Soul Principality; after successfully capturing Rice, Lizer had once asked this question in front of Sven, and the answer he received at the time was that all the intelligence Rice obtained came from within the Feiting Federation.

Obviously, to prevent the capture of one person from leading to a chain of arrests and the exposure of the information source, the Lurker organization had isolated the source of information from Rice. They didn't let Rice directly contact the information source, but went through great lengths to relay it through the Feiting Federation.

What did this mean?

Lizer's understanding was that the information source held a high and powerful position in the Red Soul Principality, absolutely could not be easily exposed, and the source's importance and status in the organization were higher than Rice's.

At this moment, combining the information Felina obtained from the wraith Bobby, Lizer deduced that the Mayor of Gele City—the current Viscount Weissman—was that information source, and that he had betrayed the Red Soul Principality at least seven or eight years ago.

Gloria and Felina listened quietly to Lizer's analysis and also felt that this possibility was extremely high. They hadn't expected the situation to have deteriorated to such a degree.