The Rise of the Black Plain - Chapter 2703: Interrogation

Inside a dark cave, Jalgon opened his eyes, contorting his face as he felt pain throughout his body. Unexpectedly, this was not the underworld he had expected to find in his death.

“You’re awake,” said a firm voice from in front of him, making him for a moment ignore the flashes of what had happened earlier in his memory and look at the man with the golden eyes and white hair.

Seeing the six wings behind the big man’s massive body, Jalgon had no trouble identifying Minos.

‘Shit. Who knew I’d end up like this?’ He didn’t despair, however.

Looking at the surroundings of this dark place, he also saw a blue-haired woman and a black-haired woman, who he felt was strangely healing him at this very moment. Finally, the level 117 Supreme of this group, Tiolos, stood next to Minos, arms crossed in front of his chest, but certainly prepared to move.

Move? There was no way he could do anything, Jalgon could feel his strength depleted, while the weapon that had gone through his body earlier was still penetrating him.

“What do you want, invaders?” He asked with sensitive difficulty in his voice. However, he knew exactly what was going to happen. He was there to be interrogated.

“You were watching us earlier…” Minos smiled as he bent down in front of the man, looking directly into the subject’s weakened eyes. “What did you want?”

“Nothing much. I saw a group of foreigners and was wondering if there was a risk to me,” he said, while Minos sensed the brazen lie of this local native.

“It’s okay if you don’t want to tell the truth. We’ll drag it out of you in our own way. Abby.”

Abby stepped forward, revealing her two jade-colored hands to Jalgon, instantly causing a bluish energy to leave her fingers and head towards his body.

Jalgon had no chance to dodge or defend himself. Weakened and immobilized, he could only watch helplessly as his body was invaded by the powers of a Sovereign woman. He thought he wouldn’t suffer from the powers of someone so much weaker than him, but he saw he was totally mistaken.

As the seconds passed, his senses gradually changed, while a sudden desire to speak the truth strangely filled his existence.

“You can ask again, Minos,” Abby said, before Minos stood up and thanked her with a touch on one of her shoulders.

“Why did you attack us?” he asked the white-haired, hawk-eyed man again.

With difficulty, Jalgon replied, “I found the place where you killed that worm. I was curious to know if the one responsible for it was the same group I was hunting and if so, how you had done it.”

Tiolos looked at Abby when he heard this, surprised to see, for the first time, this woman’s ability to make third parties tell the truth against their will.

Abby continued to use her powers, temporarily at level 113, using the advantage Minos had given her to influence as much of Jalgon’s mind as possible. But this wouldn’t last long, as this individual was in a very bad way indeed, and Ruth’s powers wouldn’t keep him alive for much longer.

Minos was aware of how delicate Jalgon’s situation was and asked. “So you were behind us before you even observed us. Why? How did you find out about my group?”

“Brendan, a level 114 octopus told me about you after I tortured him for answers about Leger’s location.”

“Leger? Why were you after Leger?” Minos pressed.

“He’s a murderer. He killed fellow members of my tribe.” His words were charged with a deep sense of hatred, making everyone there fully understand the situation.

They were silent for a moment, and when Minos intended to ask another question, Ruth let out a soft moan and lost control of her medical skills.

The man closed his eyes again, this time for good, stopping breathing seconds after Ruth had exhausted herself spiritually.

As Jalgon fell over the precipice of death, everyone took their eyes off him and looked at Minos, thinking about what they had just heard.

From the looks of it, Leger and his group had run into trouble with this level 119 Supreme now dead and at least one of the men in that group had fallen into the hands of the enemy. Such a cultivator eventually spoke out more than he should have, leading them to today’s meeting.

Besides, Leger had his own past and things shouldn’t be as simple as he had talked to them in Oqia earlier.

“An assassin, huh?” Gloria was also there and couldn’t help but open her mouth to think about what Jalgon had told them.

“We’re all murderers, depending on how you look at it.” Tiolos pointed out this indisputable truth.

Every grower killed and for their victims, the victims’ families and friends, they would always be the killers of their acquaintances. Jalgon’s words didn’t necessarily imply that Leger was a mass murderer, a psychopath about to explode and bring more and more trouble to them.

“Well, we can’t really judge the situation from what he’s told us,” Minos agreed with Tiolos as he looked at Gloria. “One way or another, we have an agreement with him and we need to move on.

Now we’ve also killed members of this man’s tribe and we might be seen as murderers by his race-mates.”

Abby nodded and said, “Let’s get rid of his body and move on with our plans. It really doesn’t change much of what we were thinking.”

They were already planning to recover from the battle earlier and continue with their search for Leger’s group. Now that they were in this situation, they would only have to undergo a slightly longer recovery due to another parasite sacrifice and then return to their search.

Leger could cause them problems, but their agreement was still valid and the man could also help them with other matters.

Minos soon dispersed his group, not having much more to talk about or plan other than what they had already done.

Soon he would return to meditating to look for clues that would lead him to Leger.