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nThe other soldiers became shocked and confused again. Too many twists had happened in the last hour.

nFirst, Zero was outed as a traitor.

nThen, Zero defeated the officer.

nAfter that, Zero proved his innocence.

nAnd now, Zero was a traitor again?

nSome of the soldiers became fearful. They weren’t stupid, and they knew that something didn’t make sense here.

nWas this Commander Stage warrior a traitor?

nThen, wouldn’t they be killed?!

nShang only looked at the superior with a smirk.

nThe superior took out his sword.

nAnd then…

nThe superior fell to the ground, unconscious.

nOnce more, the soldiers became shocked..

nWhat was going on?!

nA second later, the soldiers noticed that a new person stood beside the unconscious superior.

nThis person was an older man with grey hair and grey robes. A grey Focus with two circlets was floating beside him as he looked at the unconscious superior.

nMost of the soldiers didn’t know who that was, but a couple of them could guess his identity.

n“An Inquisitor?!” one of them whispered in shock.

nRight now, everything was silent, which made the soldier’s whisper echo throughout the surroundings, surprising the others.

nAn Inquisitor was here?!

nWhat was an Inquisitor?

nAn Inquisitor was a True Mage loyal to Duke Whirlwind. The requirements to become an Inquisitor were stringent, and they had to go through many evaluations to make sure they weren’t traitors before they could get that role.

nTo become an Inquisitor, one first needed to be a very talented Early True Mage, at least.

nSecond, one needed to have great knowledge of Mind Magic, which was a category of Magic that didn’t require an Affinity since it dealt with pure Mana and the mind.

nThe job of an Inquisitor was to find traitors and extract information from their minds, and they were very good at it.

nA second after the superior fell to the ground, his Space Ring left his finger and flew over to the Inquisitor.

nThe Duke’s emblem was taken out of the ring, and the Inquisitor looked at it for about two seconds.

nThen, the emblem floated back to Shang, who put it away. “Thanks,” he said.

nShang had known that an Inquisitor would be watching.

nWhy?

nBecause he had called them.

nShang’s job was to root out traitors and to inform the relevant authorities, which were the Inquisitors.

nShang’s job was never to kill the traitors.

nWhen Shang had won against the officer, he had taken out an emblem filled with Magic Circles from his world.

nLuckily, he didn’t need to summon it into his hands to activate it. As long as he destroyed it, it would send a signal to any Inquisitor in a radius of about 100 kilometers, who would then communicate with each other.

nBecause of that, Shang summoned the emblem into his boot and simply stepped on it, which was enough to destroy it.

nDuke Whirlwind had told Shang that about two to three Inquisitors were always on standby on the battlefield. As long as Shang broke the emblem, one of them would arrive in, at most, ten minutes.

nBut most of the time, they would only take three to five minutes.

nThe Inquisitor looked at Shang. “You can step away from him,” he said.

nShang looked down and noticed that the officer below him had also lost consciousness.

nShang grabbed his sword and stepped to the side.

n“Are there any other traitors?” the Inquisitor asked evenly.

n“One masked guy fled to the north a couple of minutes ago,” Shang said. “He is also a traitor.”

n“Finding him won’t be a problem. I marked him with the Inquisitor’s Dust earlier.”

n“We know,” the Inquisitor said. “He should have already been apprehended.”

nShang nodded.

nBefore Shang had met with One and Two, he had stealthily taken out a small bit of dust, which he had then put on himself.

nThe Inquisitor’s Dust acted like a beacon for Inquisitors. Nobody else would notice it, but the Inquisitors could feel it.

nAnd the best part, as long as anyone came into contact with one person covered in Inquisitor’s Dust, the surrounding people would also be contaminated by it.

nThis meant that every single person that had been on or near the hill for the past 30 minutes was now trackable by Inquisitors.

nAt that moment, the quiet sound of something being pulled along the ground could be heard, and the people looked over.

nAt the foot of the hill was another man with grey robes and a grey Focus. In comparison to the first Inquisitor, this one looked much younger.

nSurprisingly, the second Inquisitor was pulling a chain with three unconscious people attached to it.

nShang looked over and saw that One was one of them. The other two were two of the soldiers that had been chasing One to apprehend him.

n“I found two corpses of Early General Stage warriors on my way,” the second Inquisitor said.

nWhen the soldiers heard that, a pit appeared in their stomachs, and they glared at the three unconscious people.

nIt was obvious what had happened.

nOne had fled, and two other traitors acted like they wanted to chase him so that they could also flee.

nHowever, two innocent soldiers followed them. They only wanted to help apprehend One.

nSadly, as soon as they left everyone’s field of vision, the two traitors dealt with the two innocent soldiers before fleeing with One.

nThe soldiers almost couldn’t believe that there were so many traitors!

nAbout a quarter of all the soldiers stationed here were traitors!

nThat was insane!

n“A Pest Queen will fill her nest with Pest Cats,” the older Inquisitor said as he glanced at the superior lying beside him.

nShang also glanced at the superior.

nThe superior was probably the one that had command over the northeastern region of the battlefield, and with his authority, it wasn’t very difficult to allow more traitors to join.

nHis plan had probably been to slowly kill off all the loyal soldiers at the northeastern part of the battlefield and get more traitors to replenish the ranks.

nLike that, they could destroy the land and deliver resources to Duke Mithril.

n“Are there any more traitors?” the older Inquisitor asked Shang again.

n“There is one I suspect, but I’m not sure if he actually is one or not. It’s just a feeling,” Shang said. “I leave it to your discretion on how to proceed on this matter.”

nThe Inquisitor kept looking at the gathered soldiers. “You were the one stationed here. You know these people far better than us.”

n“If you are not certain, you can ask for a Mind Read of that person. However, if the accused is proven to be innocent, you will have to pay an expensive fine,” the Inquisitor explained.

nShang hesitated for about two seconds, but in the end, he decided to trust his feelings on this one.

n“I would like to request a Mind Read on this person,” Shang said as he gestured to a bald man amongst the soldiers.

nThe soldiers looked with shock at the bald man.

nThis was the leader of the Idealists!

nThe bald man looked with shock and anger at Shang. It was like Shang had just accused him of being a traitor, which was actually exactly what Shang had done.

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