Chapter 82 - The Ark Of Revelation (1/2)

”Hang on, if the Umbras did take away their birthdays, why do we still have reports about them? We even have their names. That's the whole reason for having to fight the Umbras, right?” asked Gab, looking very confused.

The Valkyrie and Earl Yan froze. How could they all have drawn a blank about that?

”Baron Tuazon has got a point, how could we miss the obvious out?” asked Earl Yan.

”I think something doesn't add up as well. We may have forgotten about the victims, but we still have the incident reports. The only reason why we did not have descriptions is that we don't have witnesses to report. They've all forgotten about that person, so they can't give us information,” explained Gab.

Mavislin widened her eyes as she abruptly stood up.

”How could I have been so blind!” she yelled, causing Gab to nearly stumble.

”Give some warning, mate!” shouted the poor man, looking at Mavislin in astonishment.

The Valkyrie ignored the man and gripped at one of the Earl's notes.

”Earl! Baron! I need you to scour for the diaries of the missing Mages, find any written record of them. Letters that were thrown away, anything you can think of that can hold the life of the victims,” commanded Mavislin.

”What for?” chimed the two men.

”They are the only thing that you can use to find them. Asking people is of no use. Nor is referring to the archives.”

”Why not?” asked Earl Yan.

”There's no point keeping letters from someone you don't know. If you could not remember that person, all of the records of that particular person would be extinguished. You can't ask others since they have memories erased about that person. Am I right, Valkyrie?” asked Gab.

Mavislin nodded, still holding that calculative look on her face.

”So what you are saying is?”

”The Umbras uses the Element of Memory. They don't erase the victim from history. They erase the memories of others about the victim,” replied Mavislin.

The Earl looked at Mavislin in disbelief, while Gab merely looked at papers.

”Will we get information on how to eliminate these creatures?” asked the Earl, with a shimmer of hope in his eyes.

”Don't get your hopes up. The first step is to find them. That task is already very difficult, let alone trying to kill them. Remember, swords and bullets don't work on them.”

The Earl looked defeated but Gab held a very worried look on his face.