Chapter 255 Soul Intoxicating Water (1/2)

Yang Ling focused on training the puppet Kayseri after returning to Wissen Town.

Kayseri had displayed his alarming battle instincts in the battle to capture the killers alive. If he could sufficiently develop his potential, then he could perhaps have another powerful Spellcaster by his side, a rare high-level Spellcaster from the Church.

A Church Spellcaster was unlike an ordinary Spellcaster. Other than the normal fire, water and earth element spells, a Church Spellcaster could also train in holy spells, or even the fabled divine spells. They had extremely powerful abilities. Over the millennia, aside from the many powerful guardian knights, the reason for the Church's continued dominance over the Tailun Continent was more importantly due to how many top notch Spellcasters they had.

Compared to the powerful warriors and knights, the effects a Spellcaster had in a large-scale battle was obvious. They could greatly increase the offense, defense and mobility of their own forces. Over the millennia, the main reason as to why the powerful Beastmen would be pushed back time and again by the human alliance was because there were far too little Beastman priests, their numbers far less than the human Spellcasters.

Since the beginning, Yang Ling had fret over how little Spellcasters he had by his side.

His Horned Bee Beasts, tarantulas and Vampire Bats all had defensive capabilities far weaker than that of their offensive capabilities. This was especially so for their resistance to magic. That had always been their fatal weakness. They were good when it came to surprise attacks, but it was asking too much of them to tear apart the formations of his enemy head on.

The Twin-legged Flying Dragons were adept in both offense and defense, and had a decent resistance to magic. However, Yang Ling did not have very many of them. It did not pose a problem when it came to dealing with smaller opponents, but it might be hard for them to deal with armies from the Banto or Rossi Empire that had tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people.

There were countless low-level Magical Beasts like the Horned Bee Beasts, Evil Eyes, tarantulas and Vampire Bats in the Terras Forest. Yang Ling was confident that he would be able to tame and create a Magical Beast army with numbers enough to make his enemy's skin crawl if given enough time.

If that is the case, then his massive Magical Beast army would be able to display alarming battle capabilities when paired with a large number of exceptional Spellcasters! At the very least, the army would be able to fully defend the Magical Beast Territory, lying in ambush as they dealt with the enemies infiltrating the territory to cause trouble.

Other than his powerful battle capabilities, the Red-robed Cardinal Kayseri also had a unique identity which proved to be immensely useful.

As long as Yang Ling used him well, he would be able to infiltrate the Church to obtain information, frame the Church, or even use the influence of the Church to deal with the other factions… This puppet was an excellent chess piece in his hands.

Yang Ling focused his efforts on training the puppet Kayseri, while Goode quickly interrogated the killers that they had captured alive.

Perhaps it was because they had undergone special training, or that they knew that they could not escape death, the few killers kept their mouths tightly sealed, unwilling to reveal anything even after suffering from the excruciating torture of a few barbarians.

Being unable to achieve any breakthroughs despite spending the entire day interrogating the killers, Godoe had no choice but to look for Yang Ling who was training the puppet Kayseri together with Alice in the garden, ”Sir, the killers are unwilling to speak no matter what we do, do you think…”

They have not confessed?

After ordering the puppet Kayseri who was working on its facial expressions to stop, Yang Ling gently knit his brows.

Alice had an alarming talent when it came to the concoction of various medicines. She had created a murky looking liquid in just a few hours. Even though it had a vile stench, it did have decent effects.

After a few applications, the joints and muscles of the puppet Kayseri had become looser. Even though it still looked a little rigid, it no longer gave off an eerie vibe.

”Hmph, they don't know any better!”

Training the puppet was important, but it was also critical that he found out the person behind the incidents and the rest of the killers hiding in the shadows as soon as possible. After a moment's deliberation, Yang Ling let out a low grunt and walked quickly toward the underground jail. Goode and Alice followed closely behind him.

Even though he could obtain the memories of the killers by taming them or using the Soul Tampering Technique, those methods had their individual weaknesses.

The success rate of taming a humanoid creature was not high, and should he fail, there was a possibility that the killers would die on the spot, leaving them with no chance to force out a confession. The Soul Tampering Technique required a large amount of Wizard Power and mental energy, the amount of Wizard Power and mental energy he had to expend increasing with the strength of the other party's soul.

Furthermore, the killers seemed to have powerful abilities. Yang Ling had wanted to lock them in the jail and turn them into puppets after Kayseri's training was complete and he had mastered even more techniques. Now it looks like he had no choice but to push that plan forward.

In the dimly lit cell, the killers were tied in a row onto thick steel poles with their limbs spread open. There were open wounds on their bodies, all of them covered in blood. It looks like they have been inflicted with hellish torture by the barbarians.

Thud, thud, thud…

Hearing the dull footsteps coming from the dark corridor, the heavily injured killers lifted their heads in unison. They took in a difficult breath of air when they saw Yang Ling's icy gaze. As experienced killers, they knew that the inevitable would come sooner or later.

”Tell me who your employer is, give me a reason to spare your lives!”