Chapter 22: The whole town was shocked.

The evil aura that had leaked out was immediately felt by the high-level professionals in Raine City, and they all rushed over.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The Mage Guild was the quickest to react. In less than five minutes, the three mages on duty used the Mage Tower's 'teleport' function to teleport to the scene.

A mid-level Mage Tower has a scanning radius of seven kilometres. The Mage Tower's teleportation array can teleport up to five people to any location within that range.

By this time, Christine had gathered everyone in the courtyard of the villa. Although she had not told them the truth, no one dared disobey her orders, for she had the authority of a baroness.

The leader, Valessi Arnol, a sixth level mage, saw Christine at first glance. There was no way around it, she was the centre of attention wherever she went.

She immediately approached Christine and asked, 'Christine, what's going on?

Mage Valessi,'

Christine said after giving a mage salute, "This is Yibel's villa. She held a banquet today to celebrate her promotion to second-level mage, but she secretly set up an evil altar in her bedroom, tricked several people into making sacrifices, and then turned them into demons. After that, she tried to attack me and Master Nazan, but we killed her in battle.

Master Valessi looked at Master Nazan who was lying on the ground, his robes covered in dirt but his eyes empty. She felt in her heart that he probably had nothing to do with the battle.

Master Nazan was covered in blood, and although it had been removed with magic spells, it was impossible for Christine to help him. It was already considered a great kindness to drag him out, and it was inevitable that he would be covered in mud.

Why did Iber make the evil sacrifice? It was all in the past. Since the person involved was already dead and the circumstances were clear, there was no need for Valesie to rush into action. She could simply wait for the others to arrive and then examine the room together.

Soon the bishops of the Churches of the God of Order, the God of War, the Goddess of Agriculture, the God of Light and the Goddess of Fortune, as well as the priests of the Churches of the God of Knowledge, the God of Justice, the God of Courage, the Goddess of Magic and the God of Dragons, arrived at the scene with the Templars and their escorts. There were also knights and soldiers from the Earl's Guard, who had rushed to the scene after receiving a report from the Wizards' Tower.

The courtyard of the villa was soon filled with people, more than 20 people above the fifth rank, not counting the dozens of Templar escorts and soldiers of the Count's Guard.

Although it was not uncommon for an evil aura to appear in the city of Rhyn, it was extremely rare, especially since this aura was not yet strong and not very dangerous. Therefore, people from the major True God Churches rushed here with the idea of eradicating evil.

With so many people, not to mention a fourth-order demon, even a few tenth-order demons would be dead.

Mage Valessi asked Christine to tell the story again. As soon as they heard that the perpetrator of the evil sacrifice was already dead, everyone lost interest.

But since they were here, they might as well cleanse the altar of evil. So they went back upstairs to the room where the altar was.

In no time at all, the altar was cleansed, and since Iber was already a demon, he was naturally cleansed as well. The deceased had already become peaceful through the priest's divine art, but the priest did not say that the soul, having been sacrificed to the devil, could not return to the Kingdom of God.

A book with evil contents was also found in the room. As Iber was a relative of the Count of Rhain and a believer in the God of Order, the clean-up was left to a priest of the God of Order and the Count of Rhain's guards.

Everyone at the scene, including Christine, had to be identified according to the rules to prevent them from being corrupted by evil. The method of identification was for the priest to use the divine art of 'discerning evil'.

Out of respect, the priest who believes in the true God will use the divine technique. Fortunately, there are people from various churches here today, so as long as they don't believe in obscure minor gods, there shouldn't be any problems.

The Knights of the City Guard sent someone to inform Count Rainer, another to inform the family of the deceased, and still others to have the soldiers question everyone carefully about what had happened. This had nothing to do with Christine, of course.

She is a Baroness, and the inquiries of Archmage Valessi and the Bishops of the great Churches of the True God demand answers from her. If the city guards want to ask questions, they can go to the manor.

I don't know how many people will be too busy to sleep tonight, and I don't know how many people won't be able to sleep.

Of course, it is impossible to keep such a big event a secret, and the whole aristocratic circle will know about it the next day.

Yibel belonged to the family of the Count of Rennes and was held in high esteem by the family because he was an official magician. He had provided the villa, the carriage and the maid. Not long ago, the Count of Rennes had held a small banquet to celebrate Yibel's promotion to second-level magician, and now that something like this had happened, a thorough investigation was necessary.

In particular, the book with the evil content was taken by Yibel from the library of the Count of Rennes' castle, implicating the Count of Rennes' family.

In a world where divine art and magic exist, there are ways to investigate even when the person involved is dead.

The Count of Rennes heard of the matter and took action that very night. Including his fiancé, a total of four people of status died, so he asked the butler to go from door to door to deliver compensation. The dead maid had been bought, so she was to be given a proper burial.

The other people at the banquet had no idea what was going on, so a little compensation would be fine, and even the mage Nazan was satisfactorily compensated.

So the next day, everyone involved in the matter stopped talking, which greatly reduced the pressure on Count Rainer.

The most important person, of course, was Christine, who not only took part in the whole thing, but also eliminated the evil. More importantly, her status was different from everyone else's, and if she was not satisfied, things would be very unpleasant.

Because Christine had the status of a baroness, Count Rainer's butler could not visit her overnight, so Count Rainer could only pay a courtesy visit in person, according to the rules of nobility.

In the end, the count paid 10,000 gold coins to buy Christine's silence.

Because the count believed in the God of Order, the Bishop of the God of Order arrived at the count's manor on the third day after the incident.

Even if Yibel was a member of the Rennes family, even if she was highly esteemed, and even if she had made an evil sacrifice, it had nothing to do with the Count. But since the book was found in the castle library, it had something to do with it.

In fact, the book was collected by an ancestor of the Count of Renne, who didn't know which one, because the contents were written in a language of another race and could not be read, so it was placed in the castle library.

As a mage, Yibel naturally had to go through the books in her family's library, and she happened to come across this book, which happened to be in a language she knew.

Of course, if Yibel hadn't suddenly changed her personality due to her marriage, she wouldn't have done something that would destroy everyone.