Chapter 612
“It looked like the bodies there came back to life as undead and escaped. That was our conclusion, wasn’t it? But what the Empire is actually doing is retrieving the bodies and regenerating them in those huge tanks, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Then... What happened there might not have been the Empire’s doing in the first place. That’s what I think... Sorry, I didn’t mean to confuse things, but maybe—”
Ludwig hesitated, worried he was overstepping, but Ellen shook her head.
“No, Ludwig, you’re right,” she said with certainty. “You don’t need to ask Vertus to figure it out. These are definitely separate incidents. The Empire has no reason to disturb the graves of the Order of the Holy Knights. Doing so would only stir up unnecessary trouble. If they truly needed those bodies, they would have negotiated with the higher-ups instead.”
The robbing of the tomb of the Order of the Holy Knights and the body-swapping at the national cemetery were clearly distinct events.
In the underground tomb of the Order of the Holy Knights, the bodies were apparently reanimated on the spot. However, the dead in the Empire’s laboratory were slowly regenerated before being revived using dark magic.
The two methods were vastly different, and the Empire had no reason to interfere with the graves of the Order of the Holy Knights in the first place.
“That means Rowen was investigating the wrong target from the beginning.”
After everything that had taken place, they were being led into another labyrinth.
Their initial supposition was that the Empire was behind everything, but the Empire had neither killed Rowen nor been involved in the robbing of the underground tomb of the Order of the Holy Knights.
Since Rowen had approached Ludwig to pursue the real culprit, and given all the other circumstances, it had been easy to assume the Empire was responsible. However, the two were entirely separate incidents.