Chapter 850 - 404: Star Favored, the Ancient Sage Beryl Dragon
Under the extensive search of the undead, it didn’t take long to find something.
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[In the endless mist, you followed the ’Skeleton Warrior’s’ steps, and quickly arrived at the scene of the incident...]
[The door of the Fine Copper Carriage was wide open, and the metallic steed stood still in front, staring at you with its huge equine eyes, occasionally snorting hot steam from its nostrils and mouth.]
[Its owner, ’Branch Association Scholar’, was not in the carriage but was scattered alongside it, dismembered into a bloody mess.]
[The limbs of the body had all been cleanly severed by a sharp weapon; the torso was still connected to the head, but the giant eye on the chest was gone, as if someone had deliberately gouged it out.]
[There was a strip of thin metal lying next to the body, a familiar ’Beacon of the Fine Copper Carriage’.]
[There weren’t many traces of battle remaining at the scene; you deduced that the fight from beginning to end must have been brief, and the creature that killed the ’Branch Association Scholar’ must have been much more powerful than it.]
[...]
Lin Xun frowned.
The body in front of him was so mutilated that it was impossible to possess it and feel its memories to find out what misfortune the scholar had encountered.