At noon, Grush was bathed in blazing sunlight, and the power of the fire elemental almost scorched his skin.

The bodies of the nine-headed monsters lay in the square in the middle of the castle, and the soldiers had fled in all directions, but Grush did not see Sir Mar Laven and them.

Did they escape?

Grush looked at the swollen corpses that had fallen, shook his head, and a touch of sadness flashed in his eyes, I am afraid that there is none!

Before the soldiers fled, Grush asked them, he wanted to know how the monsters appeared, but the soldiers didn't know anything, they said that the monsters appeared out of nowhere, and they were still gathering in the square to hunt down Asher, but the monsters suddenly appeared - they never saw the 'master' them appear!

They didn't know what was going on, and neither did Grush, but he had some guesses......

Exactly nine people, the monsters here, exactly nine people, except for Sir Raven's son Cage, these monsters are exactly nine.

Four women and five men, just the right number and gender.

Is this a coincidence? Grush, according to Grush, is not!

"Sir Marl Laven, is that you......"

The paladin looked at the corpses of those monsters and muttered to himself, he knew that the corpses would not answer him, but the answer was already in front of him, and he only needed to enter the inner ring of the castle to investigate, and he would be able to get the answer he wanted.

"Alas......"

With his head down, his sword sheathed, and the Principle of Justice in his arms, Grushh dragged his tired footsteps towards the inner ring of the castle.

He needs an answer!

Not only him, but the people of Marat also need an answer - they must know that they have no lord, no army to protect them!

As for the knights and officers who commanded the soldiers, Grush had seen their bodies in the square, and if he was not mistaken, the armored corpses should be them.

The knights and officers put up a strong resistance at first, but they were completely outmatched by the nine monsters, and after the commander was defeated, the soldiers, who had been frightened at first, began to break up, as Grush saw when he returned.

On the first floor of the inner ring, he found no blood, and even found the Ravan family servant who was shivering in the room.

After inspecting the first floor and walking up to the second floor, the paladin saw that the corridor in front of him had been stained red with flesh and blood, and a 'trickle' of water flowed down the stairs, and his mood became more and more depressed when he stepped into a pool of blood.

Grush's face was gloomy, and the corridor had fallen completely silent except for the sound of stamping on a pool of blood.

When Grush reached the outside of Sir Raven's study, he saw a hole in the wall facing the door, and the sunlight shone through the hole into the corridor, reflecting a magnificent colored light in the pool of blood......

Glancing at the reflection in the blood at his feet, Grush stood outside the study, and saw that it was already a mess, the desk that had been facing the door had been lifted, the sofa had been inserted into the wall, the bookshelves had been shattered, and the books were scattered all over the ground.

The glass-shrouded lamp was knocked to the ground, the lights in the study had long since been extinguished, and kerosene spilled on the floor, soaking the carpet, and the study was dark except for the sunlight behind him.

The biggest difference between the study and the hallway is that there is no blood in it, but this is what makes Grush feel most depressed.

The lord is dead, and even the last guarantee of the territory, the chief knight of the Laven family, died tragically on the spot, not to mention pacifying the people, and even suppressing it by force cannot be done, because the soldiers have already fled, and soon, the news here will reach Marat, and I don't know what will happen to Marat at that time.

With a heavy heart, Grush slowly walked up to the third floor, and he also found some blood stains in the stairs and corridors, but not much, when he walked to the hole on the third floor, he saw that the door facing the hole was torn open, and the broken wooden door was lying quietly on the ground, Grush looked over, and unsurprisingly saw a patch of blood in the dark room.

After Asher's identity was revealed, Laven's family had been slaughtered by the mastermind behind the scenes, and even the child who was on the verge of death was not spared!

However, Grush was puzzled by the fact that the inner ring of the castle did not lead to the staircase on the city wall, and when he walked around the circular corridor and returned to the same place, he did not find the staircase leading to the city wall...... So, how did those monsters get there?

The monsters, which may have been transformed by the people of the Laven family, were very murderous, but this was what puzzled the paladin the most - there were so many soldiers who fled, at least more than the soldiers standing on the walls, so why was there only one monster standing in the square at that time, and the other eight were all on the walls?

What's more, there is no staircase leading to the castle wall in the inner ring, how did those monsters get there?

He saw a hole in the wall on both the second and third floors, if those monsters had gone up to the wall first, then what was going on in the square, and if those monsters had jumped from the second and third floors, then why was there only one monster in the square at that time?

What he saw calmed Grush, he didn't know if his heart had become cold, but he now knew that it was useless to let anger control his heart at such a time.

Maybe the hot blood flowing in his body has really cooled down......

After Grush learned from the God of Light that several monks living in and around Marat had temporarily stabilized Marat's situation, he had more time to think.

There are too many doubts about this matter, and now that I can calm down and think about it, I have found a lot of things that I didn't notice before.

For example, it takes time for the soldiers to assemble, even if they assemble quickly, it will take at least ten minutes, and the soldiers have not yet begun to assemble when Grush is groping for the secret passage.

Moreover, the gates of the castle of the Raven family were closed, and the guards would not open the gates for the soldiers to flee in all directions, so the soldiers should have assembled and prepared to set out to search for Asher before Grush returned.

And the two holes in the wall have always been a little concerned for Grush, could the monsters jump through these holes, and then divide into two more ways, eight through the castle staircase to the wall, and one stay in the square to slaughter the soldiers?

When the soldier had been asked a question, the soldier had been so panicked, slurred and incomplete, and now that they had all fled, it was difficult for Grush to make out what was happening.

The corridor on the second floor was stained red with blood, and when he walked in this corridor, Grush was even more puzzled in his heart, such a long corridor, although it was only this section outside the study, what happened at that time, and how many people were here, could cause this scene in front of him......

Grush took a deep breath, the more times like this, the less he could get angry, he needed to know what the mastermind had done!

Before Sir Raven turned into monsters, push forward, until he left, what was going on here, why was there so much blood here.

Imagine that the crowd, for some reason, gathered here, and at such a time, Sir Ravan they suddenly turned into monsters and began to slaughter?

Who gathered them here, and for what reason did they come here?

The paladin's cold and merciless gaze swept over the corpses of those corpses, and he subconsciously clenched his fists, and then he found a place that he hadn't noticed before, those corpses not only had soldiers', or the proportion of soldiers was not large, because the corridor was always dark, so he didn't see that the others were wearing servants' clothes.

Is it Sir Raven, because he knows the reason why Asher is a traitor?

The answers were hidden behind the fog, and Grush was a little skeptical, and now he saw all this, most likely, like the 'eleven books', but the people behind the scenes were suspicious?

Now he was more and more sure that the torn pages were a logical trap for the masterminds, and that perhaps the contents of those pages had no value.

Did he miss something?

Grush thought for a moment, suddenly widened his eyes, and hurried down the first floor.

"Did any of you see anything?" he asked the Ravan servants who were shivering in their rooms on the first floor.

Those monsters are very capable of killing, but if there were really a lot of people called in at the time, were there any witnesses who survived?

After half a minute, Grush got an affirmative answer -

"Yes!"