Chapter 77: New Era
“The Davenport Family… I remember that case,” Saah muttered. “The husband died without an apparent reason, body found floating in the Dark Sea by Belgrave’s Eastern Port. Not a single wound. Not even a sign that there had been a struggle before his death. The Priests of the Sun’s Church thought it was the shadows. Fools. If they had asked Caligians for help, they could’ve at least seen the forensic report on that case.”
“They don’t appreciate the experts in our field,” Baht chuckled. “That, I should know.”
“Countess inherited more than half of the Brackley Company,” Vireth nodded. “A lucky woman, that one, as none of her sons were of age to become a part of the inheritance.”
That's... interesting.
Valens leaned back on the throne as he let the members figure out the details for him. Though, he had to admit he didn’t expect such a connection between Selin’s attempt at Countess Margarette’s life and the summoning of the Weeping Horror. Captain Edric had told him there were enough Wailborn cases every year in Melton that Selin’s situation wasn’t considered an abnormality.
But what’s the angle here? Say Selin had been successful. Say the Templars were late, and the Countess and her sons died in their mansion. What, then? Was someone trying to take the company? A rival, is that it?
If that was the case, then that someone missed a crucial detail in their plan since the Templars got wind of the matter and interfered with the process.
And how did they do that, exactly? The Countess’ mansion was close to the Duality Guild’s Rift. That’s the only reason why the Templars chanced their way to the Necromancer’s Rift. They had already captured Selin before we came across each other, and that’s what, nearly a month’s worth of travel from the capital?
By that logic, the Templars had received the call for help around a month ago.
That… can’t be a coincidence, right?
Valens swallowed as he considered the timeline, but there was no mistaking it. That aligned perfectly with the time he arrived in this world and found himself stuck in that Rift.
I thought strange things began happening after I got my Trial, but if I’m right on this, they’ve been in motion since the time I set foot in this world. Maybe even before that.