305 Allowing the Enemy to Escape Part 2 (2/2)

”Nailisi, let's go back,” Saleen interrupted her. Nailisi must have been displeased with Banchajanna as well, since her mood was affected by Saleen's emotions.

”I have captured a person back in the forest.”

”Bring him back with us.”

”That fellow is on the verge of death. We might not be able to bring him back,” Nailisi replied. She had torn open his ribcage. Since that man's sword aura had been protecting his body, he was still not dead at the moment. Then again, how long could a person survive if their heart was exposed to the surrounding air?

With his eyebrows furrowed, Saleen pondered. He felt that the black bishop would not return to create trouble. At best, the black bishop would report this matter to the Tanggulasi Empire, and the Holy See would deploy more men. With that display of power by Banchajanna back then, the black bishop would not stay in the north anymore.

Now that the black bishop had escaped, Saleen would not have any more leads even if he managed to extract some information from that assailant. Saleen did not bother acknowledging the presence of Banchajanna. He simply went into the depths of the forest with Nailisi. The barbarian named Conan was still atop the tree, keeping watch over that dying assailant.

”You shall conduct the interrogation.” Saleen did not want to interrogate the assailant personally. He knew that Nailisi was better at such activities.

”Master, we should let the winged skeleton do the talking,” Nailisi suggested. This idea was vicious. The winged skeleton was a spirit, and his interrogation abilities were not as strong. However, this assailant was a believer of god, and even though he was not of a very high grade, he could still relay enough information back to the Holy See. The message would be very obvious since the assailant had died at the hands of a spirit.

When the black bishop had been in the face of death, he had seen Banchajanna. Hence, no matter what kind of torture this assailant went through, it would be on Banchajanna's tab. Nailisi's trick of framery might not have been very sophisticated, but it was already good enough.

Banchajanna could not possibly go and declare his innocence, and even if he really did so, no one from the Holy See would believe him.

Torturing the soul of a believer was a serious offense. The Holy See's code was not so easily tarnished. Knowing that Banchajanna wanted to stay out of this, Nailisi had intentionally done the opposite.

”Then we should capture more people.” After listening to Nailisi's suggestion, Saleen felt a telepathic message in his heart. He knew that this idea was extremely unscrupulous, but it was just what he required at this moment.

”Mage Saleen!” Waves of shouts sounded from outside the forest. The mages from Sregl Island had finally arrived. Even though they were already rushing at full speed, they had come slightly later than Banchajanna, who had simply taken his time.

Saleen was overjoyed. These mages were the only ones he could rely on. Saleen really needed to recruit some real followers. A mage might have been powerful, but they would not be able to accomplish much on their own. By recruiting more followers, Saleen would not have to do so many things himself.

”I am here!” Saleen called out to the mages to get them to enter the forest. Banchajanna did not give a hoot. He simply carried Daniel on his back and flew away, not even bothering to land. If Judikaka had been here, he might have come down to explain things to Saleen so as to repair the frayed relations. If Diyabannersa had been here, he might have blown his top and killed all of the people from the Holy See.

Banchajanna was a little confused. He had killed dozens of people and scared the black bishop away. He had also caused cracks to appear in the relationship between Saleen and himself. To have such behavior, Banchajanna could either be considered to have low intelligence, or to be a person who only thought of his own feelings.

Saleen instructed the swordsmen and mages from Sregl Island to pursue the fleeing Holy See's swordsmen. He even specified that some of the swordsmen needed to be captured alive. The three kings must never see these prisoners. Saleen had his own plan for the prisoners.

In some planes, there were more than one god, and the gods would try to snatch believers from one another. Whenever one party captured the believers of the other party, punishments would be meted out. When the believers were tortured, the god would be able to feel it telepathically. The swordsmen which Saleen had asked the mages to capture were not high grade believers. He did not need high grade believers anyway. These low grade believers would be the most suitable for framing Banchajanna.

If a prisoner was a high grade believer, a detailed message would be sent back to the god before his soul was destroyed. Such low grade believers would only be able to transmit vague messages back.

Saleen just needed to let the Holy See know that its believers were tortured by a powerful spirit.

Saleen did not have any worries in doing something like that. Anyway, the actions by these inquisition swordsmen were infuriating. They had captured the barbarians in order to produce blood cavaliers. All these actions warranted Saleen to torture their souls.

At this moment, Saleen was thinking of another issue as well. He was thinking of contacting Aini. According to Aini's parents, Aini had become a death mage. Given Aini's power in the past, he would not need much time to get to grade-5. Aini possessed knowledge of spirits and a mysterious contractual spell. He would surely have a way to deal with the three kings.

Saleen remembered that when he had been in Baron Cook's castle, Walnut's mercenary group had violated the contract. As a result, everyone within the mercenary group had fallen under Aini's control. That type of power was extremely petrifying. If a contract could be designed to make the three kings fall into a trap, then they would have no choice but to work for Saleen in the future.

Today's incident had made Saleen realize that if one could not control their own power, then their power would be meaningless no matter how strong it was.