Chapter 804
“There’s no evidence. There are circumstances that suggest guilt, but there’s no proof. There's nothing left to clear His Majesty’s name,” Marquis Peiltris muttered.
Davey looked around the room with his hands cuffed by mana restraints. He felt nothing, as he expected.
‘Even the memory of the land had been wiped clean. They didn’t use a higher spirit or powerful force; they dispersed it.’
The methods were different. Power that had been forcibly erased could be restored, but they had scattered the spirit’s memories instead.
‘Gnoum, do you really not remember anything?’ Davey asked.
Nature spirit Gnoum trembled, unable to answer. As Davey nodded, the higher level earth spirit next to him started radiating a powerful energy, making Gnoum shudder and nod frantically.
The memory wasn’t gone; there was simply no memory of that time at all. Davey knew this wasn’t something that could be achieved with simple magic. It had to be related to that strange smell.
“Your Highness, is there a reason we came here? If you can’t prove anything, your position will be in danger,” Marquis Peiltris said, following closely behind him.
There was no clear physical evidence that Davey had killed the victim, but there was enough circumstantial evidence.