On the other side, Klein found Kapin's body, took out a tarot deck he had prepared beforehand, pulled out the "Judgment" and "Emperor" cards and threw them at Kapin's face, then scattered the other tarot cards on Kapin's body.
During the pouring, one card, due to its angle of fall, tumbled and landed on the ground near Kaping's head. It was the "Hermit" card, featuring a hood and a lantern.
Klein didn't pay much attention and went to the rooftop to prepare for his final bow.
At that moment, a phantom gate suddenly appeared in the courtyard of the villa, and a handsome man in a sharp suit stepped out from the inner phantom world.
This was Celt Augustus, the demigod of the Rune military. He glanced at the raging fire in front of him, his gaze passing through the flames and thick smoke to see the four extraordinary corpses already engulfed in flames.
At the same time, a gust of wind blew in, and a stern old man wearing a black soft hat and a black robe embroidered with storm symbols flew over at an extremely fast speed.
Ace Snake, the Archbishop of the outskirts of Backlund, also known as the "Singer of God".
Ace asked Celt in a deep voice, "Why are you here?"
As is customary, extraordinary events in the Georgewood district are managed by the St. Wind Cathedral.
Selt replied, looking rather grim, "I live nearby."
Ace didn't say anything more. He raised his hand towards the raging flames, and a violent hurricane swept the flames away, carrying them to the artificial fountain outside.
The two demigods saw the corpses of Horace and the other three, saw Capin covered in tarot cards, and saw the two cards covering the face of the human trafficker.
Those are the "Judgment" card, depicting an angel blowing a trumpet, and the "Emperor" card, depicting an emperor wearing armor and a crown!
Immediately afterward, Selt and Ace noticed something and looked up at the roof.
They discovered a majestic figure covered in black armor and wearing a black crown on the roof of the partially collapsed villa.
Klein nodded slightly, having completed his "final act," and was about to leave when suddenly a faint female voice came from behind him: "Got you."
Klein immediately realized that the voice belonged to the powerful woman he had met at the Kingdom Museum. At the same time, a colorful circle of light suddenly appeared beneath his feet, immobilizing him in place.
When Bernadette followed Odis and saw this majestic figure, she immediately sensed that it was the spirit that had stolen the cards earlier.
Having learned from her previous experience, she didn't rush to attack. Instead, she observed the other party's actions while secretly creating a powerful spatial seal.
Klein paused slightly, but in the next second, he vanished without warning.
A phantom figure immediately appeared where he disappeared. It was Bernadette. She was examining her seal with some disbelief. The seal was still there, and there was no sign of it being broken.
Theoretically speaking, the person inside this seal should not be able to leave through the spirit world, the underworld, or the astral realm, but the other party did indeed leave right before Bernadette's eyes.
Click~
A silvery-white lightning bolt, shaped like a tree branch, flashed in mid-air, illuminating the area where the majestic figure had just disappeared as if it were daytime.
Bernadette glanced at the two demigods in the courtyard, and a pair of illusory wings appeared on her back, enveloping her. When the illusory wings disappeared, Bernadette also left.
Both Ace and Celeste sensed Bernadette's power, so neither of them had any intention of stopping her.
"They are not in cahoots," Selt said.
Ace nodded; he could sense just how powerful the seal was.
Then, the two of them looked out of the villa at the carriage with the "Mechanical Holy Emblem".
...
Coughing incessantly from the choking, Odis, feeling extremely uncomfortable, immediately had Byron and Baker help her onto the carriage of "Mechanical Heart" when she saw Klein take his final bow, and warned Byron and Baker that neither of them should get off.
Just as Odis was starting to feel a little better, Ace and Celt arrived outside the car.
A gust of wind seemed to open the car door as if it were alive. Odis took a deep breath before saying, "I'm sorry, you two, cough cough, I'm not feeling well and can't bow to you."
Ace said, "You seem to be witnesses to the whole thing?"
"Yes, cough cough." Odis did not intend to hide anything: "But I am an important informant for 'Mechanical Heart', and I can only answer your… cough cough… questions when I am accompanied by members of the 'Mechanical Heart' team."
This is why he got on the vehicle immediately. If he hadn't gotten on, even if he revealed his identity, the two demigods in front of him could have easily claimed that they hadn't heard him clearly and forcibly "interrogated" Odis and the other two.
With the "arbitrator" approach available, their interrogations will not be just simple questions.
But it simply doesn't make sense that someone sitting in the "Mechanical Heart" carriage was "interrogated" by the Archbishop of the Church of Storms and a demigod from the military using extraordinary abilities.
Selt sneered, "Are you feeling guilty?"
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
Odis and the other two felt immense mental pressure, as if they were about to reveal all their secrets.
"Cough cough cough..." Odis coughed, and under immense mental pressure, tremblingly took out the "mechanical emblem" hanging around his neck, composed of a triangle ruler, gears, and levers, and held it up in front of him:
"The embodiment of essence, cough cough, the guardian of craftsmen, the brilliance of technology."
"Your devout followers pray to you..."
"Alright," Selt said coldly, "we'll ask again later."
Clang~
The car door was closed again, and the immense mental pressure disappeared.
Odis breathed a long sigh of relief.
Byron, who was standing to the side, had a new understanding of the identity of the "leader". He asked, "How are we going to answer the questions from the police and the extraordinary people later?"
Although Byron was not an extraordinary being, he knew of their existence.
"Just tell the truth," Odis said.
During the retrieval last Saturday, he had already reported Byron's situation to Max, and Parker had just attacked him, so he wasn't afraid of being questioned within the normal range. However, he knew too many secrets and couldn't be interrogated by the military using their extraordinary abilities.
The "Substitute Punishers" team arrived shortly afterward, directing the police to take control of the villa and surrounding area, with three members keeping an eye on Odis and the others.
Half an hour later, Max arrived with his team after hearing the news. After learning the details, he asked the "Punisher" to send someone with them back to the Backlund Mechanical Research Society to interrogate Odis and the other two.
However, the attention given to the case by the "substitutes" and the military exceeded Max's expectations. Selt and Ace even personally participated in the interrogation of Odis and the other two.