"So the first meeting ended, and we agreed to make a decision in two days." Panis told Catherine and Vivien in detail what happened in Deer Saren: "But there was no accident. On the eve of the second meeting, another case happened."

"Yeah?" Catherine was stunned: "This is a face-to-face provocation."

"I feel so too." Panis curled his lips: "It was already early morning. The night before, everyone was probably preparing materials for the next day's meeting and they were resting late, so early morning was the time to sleep the most comfortable time. I didn't expect to get such news."

"I was still in bed at that time and was startled by the knock on the door." Lina's performance today was very strange. She had been meeting for several hours and had never done any work by herself. She had been sitting aside to direct, like a spoiled lady, and some other character in the book was: "When I pulled Panis and hurried to the Temple of Wind God, it was almost dawn, and I could see a priest of a Wind God dozing off there at a glance."

"Hmph." Teresa snorted coldly, turned her head and ignored Lina's joke: "Simply put, after knowing that the case happened again, as Mr. Panis said, he left those silver-level subordinates in the city, and the seven of us rushed to the scene of the case. A sage of the earth god was also lying on the back of the horse on the way and almost fell down, but he dared to laugh at others."

"Hey, Panis." Catherine pulled Lapanis's sleeve: "What's wrong with them? What's going on?"

"Well, the earth winds resist each other, this is nature." Panis shrugged and replied in a low voice: "It's been more than ten days. Just keep doing this and get used to it."

"Actually, it was too late to arrive." Muir took over the topic because he was afraid of another conflict between the two clergymen. As the singer of the god of art and music, the bard was originally Moor's profession, and he naturally played the strings. A boring narrative combined with his soothing music became interesting: "The case happened in a small town more than 70 kilometers away from Deer Saren. There were about 500 people in the town. This time, all of them were killed, including the guards in the town, and most of them died in their own homes. Fifteen people died in the tavern, and three died on the street. These three night patrolmen died directly on the street without any reaction, and died casually on the ground. From this, it can be seen that things happened very suddenly. But the death did not come suddenly."

"Sorry, what does this mean?" Catherine couldn't understand and asked, "Can you explain it?"

"It's actually easy to understand." Panis explained in a low voice: "They didn't fall and die suddenly, otherwise their bodies should have been lying on the ground instead of sitting on the ground, or sitting in a row against the wall. So, death did not come suddenly."

"It seems that they fell asleep before the incident." Catherine nodded slightly and said to herself: "However, even if she was sleepy during the night patrol, she shouldn't be sleeping side by side. Moreover, it's still winter now, and it's so cold at night. Even if she's lazy, she won't sit outside and sleep, as she will freeze to death."

"You are right, so I said that although things happened very suddenly, death did not come suddenly." Moore agreed with a smile: "From the scene, the large-scale hypnotic spell used by the other party made the whole town fall into a deep sleep. Then he died in a deep sleep."

"A wide range of hypnotic spells?" Katherine turned her eyes to Vivian for help: "Is there such a spell?"

"Theoretically, several mages can join forces. However, the feasibility is not high in actual operation." Vivian frowned and calculated for a long time before looking up and replied: "If you want to complete this kind of large-scale hypnosis, especially for more than 500 people, at least three legends need to join forces to do it. Moreover, there should be no people with too high resistance among the hypnotized objects, that is, there should be no silver-level and above professionals, otherwise the spell will definitely fail. In contrast, what I am more curious about is why they must choose hypnosis instead of shock. Just like the previous incident in the spindle village, they chose shock to shock the civilians because they did not choose but chose shock. So although the number of people is too much more than now, the power consumed is even much less than now."

"That time in the spindle village should be of experimental nature. After all, there has never been such a large-scale behavior before." Panis explained: "This time, I got the news from the Neville Federation that among the dead in the spindle village, seven people died directly because of the excessive impact. Their bodies showed no signs of aging. Therefore, I am afraid that the other party would not be willing to bear this part of the loss, so they chose more complicated hypnosis."

"Maybe." Catherine said: "But it may also be because there are many high-level professionals in the spindle village. Forget it, don't consider this issue, you can continue."

"This is the first time that we can arrive at the scene in such a short time, and we found many problems." Moore continued: "When we arrived, many townspeople's physiological functions had not completely stopped, giving us the opportunity to observe on the spot. It can be basically confirmed that those people died naturally after their lifespan was fully squeezed, which means that they had gone through the normal time that would take decades to pass in just a few hours, and they went to natural death."

"Not only humans, but all the animals in the town, including bugs and mice underground, died of old age." Moore's voice was filled with a hint of anger and a hint of fear: "Only there are survivors under the ground, we were even a little worried at one time, how terrible it would be if the other party chose a densely populated metropolis to do such a thing."

"It shouldn't be that easy." Catherine frowned and said, "Depending on the current situation, if the murderer wants to succeed, he must put the target in an unconscious state. Although he doesn't know what will happen if the target is still conscious, at least a conscious target can run out of the coverage of their magic array, and even destroy their magic array."

"Yes, we thought of this problem later, and we felt a little relieved." Moore nodded and said, "After checking the corpse, we searched along the edge of the town, and found a destroyed magic array, just like the ones in the previous few times. Not only that, inside the magic array, we also found another set of hypnotic magic arrays, and the hypnotic magic arrays are nested inside the magic array that commits the crime."

"What?" Vivian suddenly looked up and stared at Moore's face and asked, "Are you sure you didn't use the wrong word? Is it nesting?"

"Yes, it's just nesting." Moore said with a wry smile: "I was surprised when I first saw it."

"What's wrong?" Catherine asked in confusion: "Is there any special problem?"

"I remember I explained it before." Vivian rubbed the soft hat on his head and grabbed his hair hard, as if he couldn't figure it out: "For magic circles, it is very difficult to nest two magic circles with completely different effects. The more complex the magic circles are, the more difficult it is to nest them. Remember my backpack. The simple floating magic circle and the expansion magic circle are enough to make me famous in the Magician Guild. The coverage I have discovered now includes the magic circles in the entire town. It is almost impossible to nest them. I don't think anyone can do this."

"But in fact, some people did it." Moore sighed: "I am considered half a mage. Of course, I know how difficult it is to do such a thing. But the facts are always cruel, and some people did it."

"Not necessarily, maybe there are other reasons." Panis suddenly interrupted, "I have been thinking about this issue these days, and there are some new ideas. You can continue first, and I will talk about it after it is over."

"What else are you talking about?" Moore stared at Pannis and said, "There is your personal performance time behind you. You actually want me to describe it for you. Is this a satirizing me as an incompetent elf hunter? Is it that I will not do it."

"Hey, aren't you a believer of Yeda?" Panis stared at his eyes and said angrily: "Why did you become an elf hunter at this time? Is your profession richer than mine? Ao~~~"

"Stop messing around." Catherine retracted her fingers that poked Penis's waist and pulled Panis back to sit down, "What happened behind?"

"Actually, it's nothing." Panis rubbed his waist with a bitter face and said reluctantly: "I just turned around the magic circle and found a footprint at a certain location."

"Footprints?" Catherine asked strangely, "Footprints in this kind of weather?"

Catherine was indeed surprised because it was the driest time of winter, and even the softest apprentice would become hard in this kind of weather. Unless it was intentional, it was almost impossible to leave footprints in the wild. Panis obviously knew what Catherine was thinking and explained: "It was not the footprints embedded in the soil you thought, but another kind. The other party should have just passed by a place with water. The soles of the shoe were wet. Before they got there, they left a watermark on the ground. The watermark was too frozen, so it was stored for a longer time. If we arrived in the town a few hours later, we would probably not even see this footprint."

"What can this footprint... mean?" Catherine asked, "It's very difficult to find the other person through one footprint."

"It's not too difficult," Panis explained: "By footprints, you can reason in reverse, judge where he was before, and find further clues to them by searching those positions. In fact, it is not very difficult to master the method."
Chapter completed!