"Bishop, have you heard? The Chancellor, the City Officer, they're all dead!"
It had just begun to dawn when Ganchalov was woken up by Urmit, his head still in a haze until the news of the death of senior officials jolted him awake in an instant.
"Dead?"
"All dead!" Urmit said, "Overnight, all of them had their scalps removed. I saw it when I went out for a stroll this morning. Especially the Chancellor, even his buttocks were stabbed through!"
The act of murdering and scalping was not common in the Romanov Kingdom. Ganchalov had never seen a scalped corpse before, but in the Western Continent, it was a common custom.
What truly worried Ganchalov was that the deceased officials of The Kingdom were exactly those who had previously protected the Bruto Company. Without them, the Church of Truth could not enter the city.
Could their causes of death be related to the Church of Truth?
First, get rid of the protective umbrella, then take action against the Church of Truth...
