Abyss Sequence-Chapter 473 - 48: Doubts

Seeing no other battles occurring elsewhere, Yan Luo did not immediately descend from the air but continued to stand in the sky observing the city.

Just because no battle was happening now, it didn’t mean that a battle wouldn’t happen later. He needed to observe for a time.

After a long while, with no battle erupting and no new explosions appearing, a guard squad on the street below yelled up to him, "Holy Sir, it’s over, come down."

The guard squad had just learned from the Academic Committee that the human who appeared within the academy was actually the legendary Saint.

No wonder so powerful.

This Saint had a benevolent heart; even though this matter had nothing to do with him, he dedicatedly helped the elves.

The news of him saving many elves was spreading within the academy, and the guard squad members had already regarded him as Alfheim’s most honorable guest.

Hearing the shouts, Yan Luo descended and asked the guard squad member who had called out, "Is it over?" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

The guard squad member nodded, saying, "We have checked the list and confirm that all suspects have been apprehended or eliminated."

The so-called ’list’ was summarized by Yevgenia, comprising elves who had contacts with Lykan and had traveled via teleportation arrays to cities experiencing parasite incidents.

If the parasite incident was indeed related to these elves, then all these elves were suspects.

At this moment, the guard squad member looked up at Yan Luo with admiration and respectfully said, "Also, the president requests that you go to the committee once."

Yan Luo had killed ’Lykan Hongfeng’, likely the cause of the academy attack event, and the old president wanted to invite Yan Luo to the Academic Committee’s office building to discuss these matters.

Yan Luo naturally would not refuse and slowly floated up, swiftly heading towards the Academic Committee’s office building.

In less than half a minute, Yan Luo arrived at the office building’s entrance, and when a young elf who had been waiting at the door saw Yan Luo, his face lit up with joy, and he stepped forward to invite Yan Luo to the conference hall.

Normally, the conference hall inside the office building would only be used during important meetings; otherwise, smaller, more suitable rooms for communication would be used.

A group of the possessed had somehow infiltrated the academy, and if it happened once, it could happen again. So, the Academic Committee had to come up with a response plan.

The academy was one of Alfheim’s magic seal nodes, a fact known to only a few elves, but as someone who was aware, the president of the Academic Committee understood the importance of this floating city well.

The old president invited Yan Luo to attend the Academic Committee’s internal meeting to deal with those possessed.

In previous events, Yan Luo displayed an extraordinary power that suppressed even possessed ones of general rank quickly, surely marking him as a strong being of Great Monarch rank.

Elves are mostly spellcasters, not adept in close combat, which relates to their extraordinary power and physical constitution.

If there were still lurking possessed ones in the academy, with Yan Luo’s help, they could swiftly take them down, reducing the academy’s harm.

Yan Luo was guided into the conference hall, and upon entering the hall, many participants showed puzzled expressions.

The newcomer was a human, and not even a committee member, so why participate in this meeting?

Yan Luo didn’t pay heed to those looks of surprise and rejection. He looked toward the center of the hall, where a few unconscious possessed were laid on a table, surrounded by some standing or seated elves.

"Ahem, almost everyone’s here, no need to wait for the remaining few members, let’s start the meeting."

The old president cleared his throat, leaned on a cane, and walked to the table with the lying possessed, looking around, he said, "I believe everyone knows what happened at the academy—a group of despicable possessed ones controlled some elves, including Fuer Saint’s only descendant, Lykan Hongfeng. Saint Fuer entrusted the Holy Sir to the academy to investigate Lykan due to suspicions.

"The Holy Sir uncovered the truth and confronted Lykan, who, like the other possessed, after being caught, committed suicide..."

"No."

Yan Luo interrupted the old president, calmly saying, "I killed him because at the time I was unaware of the matter of the possessed. I thought Lykan Hongfeng had studied demon knowledge, perhaps controlled by a demon. This time, I came to the academy because an elf had reported to Saint Fuer about Lykan’s research into demon knowledge. After some investigation, I concluded that Lykan reported himself. Saint Fuer couldn’t confirm this, so he entrusted the investigation to me.

"At that time, I believed that destroying Lykan’s body would also kill what was possessing him, but from subsequent events, this wasn’t the case. Those possessed could likely detach from the body and possess another elf."

Yan Luo thought the old president might be trying to help cover up the fact that he had killed Lykan, since Lykan was Saint Fuer’s only descendant now, so Lykan’s death meant the end of the Saint’s bloodline—unless the Saint remarried.

Once the matter is exposed, it might lead to Yan Luo being resented by other elves.

Nonetheless, Yan Luo disliked lying, especially lying about things that didn’t need to be muddled over.

Just as Yan Luo thought, after he revealed that he had killed Lykan Hongfeng, many elves present changed their gaze towards him.

For the elves, a Saint is equivalent to a deity. Speaking about killing a god’s child in front of believers, it’s unlikely they would have a good attitude towards him.

The old president was a bit troubled, having planned to help Yan Luo conceal this matter, but didn’t expect Yan Luo to reveal the truth himself.

The old president took a deep breath and solemnly said, "...In short, a group of the possessed appeared in the academy, potentially demons, with the likely aim of making the academy fall and killing all elves living here. This is a war, we must be vigilant. Alfheim hasn’t experienced war in many years, and none of us, including myself, know what war is like, even the description of the word ’war’ might be forgotten...

"The demons want to kill us; we cannot sit idly by. We must fight them, resist! And this is not just a matter for the academy alone. Previously, parasite incidents occurred in cities like Gass City and Mayin City, likely related to the possessed appearing in the academy. The possessed don’t just want the academy to fall; they aim to eradicate us elves!

"This meeting is not only to discuss how to deal with the possessed but also a war mobilization rally. After the meeting, I will notify other cities about the possessed and use the Mayin City incident as a warning—To solve the parasites within the city’s residents, the entire population of Mayin City had to relocate to the Middle Court and live with humans. The Holy Sir was a firsthand experiencer of that event, even leading the solution to the parasite incident."

The major incident in Mayin City was known to many elves in the academy’s Academic Committee.

They finally understood why Saint Fuer commissioned this human Saint to investigate his descendant.

During the parasite incident, Yan Luo had already demonstrated enough intelligence, which was likely why Saint Fuer chose him for the investigation.

"You overpraise me," Yan Luo said calmly.

The old president cleared his throat again, drawing the committee members’ attention back to himself, and continued, "The possessed want us dead, but we will strive to live well, and if the opportunity arises, I also want to strike them back! Whatever they are, no matter what heinous acts they intend to commit next, the academy will never surrender to them. We will not yield; the elves of Alfheim will not perish!"

These words stirred the emotions of the committee members present, who began shouting vigorously.

"Elves will not perish!"

"We will not yield!"

"Never surrender!!"

Hearing the fervent shouts around him, Yan Luo furrowed his brow slightly.

He began to suspect, could this be part of Fuer’s plan?

— A plan to unify Alfheim by creating an external enemy?