510 Remnant Soul
Benson Walton’s POV:
Kevin had ‘examined’ Julie’s body, and what he had examined was Julie’s remaining soul. Even her soul was incomplete, which made her unable to find the way to the Moon Palace’s courtyard. Even the messenger who guided the soul seemed to have forgotten her. She could only wander around the grave like a homeless ghost.
Kevin realized that some kind of power had long corroded her soul. Furthermore, unlike the normal state of the soul, which could repair itself, there was no trace of repair. He found a strange power in Julie’s soul, which was exactly what we found today.
With all the factors mixed, a conclusion was already obvious.
More than twenty years ago, perhaps before Layla’s death, the murderer used a strange power to control Julie, the servant of the manor. This caused Julie’s soul to be damaged, and she became a lunatic.
Who would be so free as to lay their hands on an ordinary servant?
The alarm in my heart was frantically reminding me: it was this person. Whoever controlled Julie was most likely to be the murderer who killed Layla.
However, I was woken up by a basin of cold water.
Kevin brought me some fresh information. From him, I learned that a person was suspected of having mind control abilities in the Evaria Family.
The situation that I least wanted to happen had happened. Once it was related to any of the abilities of the Lycan pack, the whole thing would only become more and more confusing.
Even though the Evaria Family was now in a state of collapse, their past power and influence had truly existed. The family would not easily confess what he had done to protect themselves. Those who had helped them before would also keep their mouths shut. The umbrella was already too busy to take care of himself. Once he admitted it, no one could get them out.
If the criminals were really from the Evaria Family, their motives were not difficult to guess.
As a once-well-known ambitious man, there were many different opinions on what role the Evaria Family had played in the attack on the palace. Unsurprisingly, they wanted to eliminate a loyal officer with great power who could not be recruited. Moreover, by doing so, they could find a scapegoat for the whole incident and end the influence and suspicion brought by the attack on the palace as soon as possible.
Things seemed to have reached a stalemate again, but Kevin suddenly said he would take Julie’s remnant soul back to the Lycan pack.
“Do you know that the soul can repair itself? There is a limit to the power of the soul. Once this limit is broken, the soul would activate its self-recovery mechanism and absorb all the power it could absorb to repair itself. This power may come from witchcraft, sacrifice, worship, or even doing nothing. It’s fine because any living creature is a part of nature and can absorb the power of nature.
“And if a soul is visibly damaged but has no tendency to repair itself, there are only two possibilities: First, the thing eroding the soul is active and constantly devouring it. The soul’s expenditure was balanced, and it seemed to be still. The second is that the soul is not incomplete at all – it is just split up and carried to different places by the wind like the petals of a flower. Too far a distance will make it impossible for the soul fragments to gather and merge, but the soul is not generally missing, so it did not trigger self-healing.
“It’s very difficult to control a person’s mind, even if born with this power. This is because you have to consider the resistance of the controlled. Even a lamb would struggle before being slaughtered. Julie’s soul couldn’t have split into two for no reason. Her resistance likely caused it.
“You’re saying that because Julie resisted, the murderer had no choice but to increase the strength of his control over her. But Julie was just an ordinary person, and her spiritual world couldn’t bear it, so her soul was torn apart?”
“Yes, I do think so.”
Kevin stared at the traces on the floor fragments and suddenly said, “Don’t you think this looks like a tear stain?”
“What?”
“The water stain on the floor is round, and there are traces of splattering around. Most importantly, there are still remnants of special power. This is very similar to a person’s tear falling on the ground, isn’t it? Of course, it could also be saliva or something else, but I don’t think the murderer is a French bulldog that can’t shut its mouth.”
The topic changed very quickly, but Kevin pulled the topic back at an even faster speed.
“In short, the other half of Julie’s soul must still exist in some corner of this world, and its track of activity is extremely limited. The soul couldn’t be too far from where it died unless someone took it away. So, either it’s still in the Golden Bell Pack, or it was taken away by the murderer.”
We immediately searched the Golden Bell Pack with Julie’s remnant soul but found nothing.
There was only one possibility left.
Although I couldn’t be sure that the murderer was the suspicious person from the Evaria Family, this special power was usually passed on by blood, so getting rid of the relationship with the Evaria Family was impossible.
I looked toward the Lycan pack and suddenly felt a wave of fatigue wash over me. Could I really settle this grudge that had been going on for decades so easily?
