"That's why the king is so angry and has ordered that the mastermind behind the princess's assassination must be found."
At this point, Margareta suddenly snorted angrily, saying:
"Hmph, Keira is truly inconsiderate."
"She even wanted to use necromancy to interrogate the souls of those culprits."
"That's forbidden magic; not to mention the low success rate and the risk of bringing disaster upon oneself and suffering magical backlash."
"Even if she interrogated the souls of those assassins, I don't think a few ordinary assassins would know who the mastermind is."
At this point, both sorceresses fell silent; such an event was difficult for anyone to bear.
Although sorceresses possess immense power, many things in the world do not change according to the will of the powerful, often catching them off guard.
Guilliman stood by, listening to the entire conversation between the two sorceresses.
When he heard that the culprits were dead and there were no clues about the mastermind.
Guilliman couldn't help but frown.
This wouldn't do; Princess Adda was lucky this time, and Margareta happened to be nearby, which is why she survived.
If another assassination attempt occurred next time, this beautiful princess, whom he had finally managed to connect with, might be killed.
In that case, he would suffer a huge loss.
If another heir took over the throne of Temeria, whether his Witcher school could continue to operate would become a problem.
So, he said:
"Triss, I want to see the bodies of those culprits."
"I'm a witcher; perhaps I can infer some clues from the subtle traces on the bodies."
Because of the precedent set by the great detective Geralt, Triss had no doubts about his statement and quickly led him to a dark room, which was where the bodies were stored.
Under the guidance of a palace official, the two saw the bodies of the true perpetrators of the princess's assassination.
Two ordinary middle-aged people, and a rather good-looking young girl.
The three of them were dressed as servants and maids; outwardly, they looked no different from ordinary people, making it indeed difficult to imagine them as assassins.
After using his keen witcher senses and failing to find any special clues, Guilliman sighed and turned to Triss, saying:
"Triss, I'm going to use a special method to uncover the truth now."
"Can you keep it a secret for me?"
The red-haired sorceress, hearing this, recalled the souls of dead monsters he had absorbed when they acted together.
She asked with some hesitation:
"Are you going to use soul magic, Guilliman?"
Guilliman did not hide it upon hearing this, stating directly:
"I plan to examine the memories of these culprits; perhaps I can find out who the mastermind is from their memories."
"Don't worry, I'm quite confident about this and there won't be any problems."
Hearing the witcher's assurance, although Triss was still not entirely at ease, she nodded and promised to keep his secret.
So, Guilliman no longer hesitated and immediately used the Axii Sign to draw the souls of the three culprits into himself.
Fortunately, they returned quickly enough; these three culprits had died less than an hour ago.
Otherwise, even if he wanted to absorb their souls, there wouldn't have been enough time.
After advancing to an 'Awakened' one, Guilliman already possessed some ability to probe the soul memories of ordinary people.
This ability could only be used normally when his soul rank was higher than the other party's.
However, even so, he would still be affected by the emotions of those souls, placing a burden on his mind.
Moreover, probing memories was a thankless and very uncomfortable task.
So he hadn't used it much.
But this time, there was no other way; to find the mastermind as quickly as possible, he could only make himself uncomfortable and probe the souls of these three culprits.
Click! Click! Click!
As he forcibly absorbed memories, a large number of cinematic-like images were compressed together and forcibly crammed into Guilliman's mind.
This feeling was very unpleasant, like being forced to watch movies or read books when already dizzy and mentally weak.
Fortunately, his soul was much tougher than it had been at the previous rank; although it was very uncomfortable, he could barely endure it.
So, he separately probed the memories of these three souls, counting back from their time of death, for the past year.
Although it was just a rough, quick viewing, he finally found traces of the mastermind in some of the images.
It was an expected enemy, a quite reasonable enemy.
The ruler of the Principality of Maribor, Foltest's cousin, a high-ranking noble who would have the right to inherit the throne of Temeria after both Foltest and Princess Adda died.
Prince Ulkacast.
It was this prince who sent these three long-trained loyal assassins to assassinate Princess Adda.
And Guilliman also discerned the reason for this assassination from the memories of the deceased.
Ultimately, it was due to his appearance.
Because he had cured Princess Adda of the striga curse, transforming the formerly flawed princess into a normal person, giving her hope of governing a country well and becoming its heir.
Prince Ulkacast, who did not wish for things to develop favorably, therefore arranged this assassination.
At the same time, Guilliman also obtained an important piece of intelligence.
This prince was also one of the Salamandra's financiers; he funded this evil gang.
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