From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 370 - 266 Third Transition Origin Quality

Iron Blood Investigation Bureau Coastal Headquarters Building.

Lu Heng drove to the building, and Gao Zhitin hurriedly came to open the car door for him.

"Master is still having a meeting upstairs, he asked me to come down to welcome you."

The master he referred to was naturally Chen Linian.

Having received a phone call, Lu Heng arrived and asked Gao Zhitin, "You didn’t explain clearly on the phone, what is the urgent matter?"

Gao Zhitin led Lu Heng into the headquarters building and walked towards the elevator, speaking as they moved,

"This issue is a bit tricky, so Master wanted to ask for your help to see if there’s something we can do.

"The situation is as follows: Lately, there have been many disappearances.

"We have been investigating, but there are no leads.

"Because many disappearance cases are related to demons, they are particularly difficult to investigate.

"At the start, we thought this case might be related to demons, but while investigating a Quenching Master case, after interrogating a suspect, we got some extra information.

"A mercenary from the Round Table Knights mentioned during the interrogation that he saw a Superpower User with the class of an ’Undead Wizard’ in Coastal.

"There’s evidence suggesting that the people who disappeared previously might be related to this Undead Wizard, suspected to be creating Undead Soldier Puppets."

By the time they were speaking, they had reached the seventh floor and arrived at the investigative team’s office area.

Gao Zhitin gestured and led Lu Heng into an observation room.

On the display screen of the observation room, an interrogation room was visible.

In the interrogation room, Chen Linian was questioning a Superpower User.

This Superpower User was a white male in his forties, with deep, gloomy eyes, golden long hair, and a stubbled face that hadn’t been shaved in a while.

Gao Zhitin handed a document to Lu Heng, saying, "This man is called White Pierre, and we suspect he is the Undead Wizard disclosed by the Round Table Knights’ mercenary, but we can’t find any evidence."

Lu Heng took the document and upon reading the first few lines understood why this case was tricky.

It was because this White Pierre was a high executive of the Kate Investment Group in the Asia-Pacific Region for the White Eagle Federation, meaning this person had the capability to influence investments worth tens of billions in Da Xia.

With such vast funds, there was no need for the Kate Investment Group to step in personally, as local enterprises and officials in those areas hoping for investment would find ways to help him.

Of course, Iron Blood had the authority to handle this case, but there was one problem: before confirming this person’s guilt, they couldn’t use torture tactics.

If this person was injured during detention and no evidence was found to convict him afterward, the matter would become problematic.

Lu Heng curiously asked, "Didn’t you use spiritual power for the interrogation?"

Gao Zhitin explained, "We tried, but it failed. This person is a Spiritual Superpower User with a very high Spiritual Attribute, and he might have Spirit Resistance Skills. Our spiritual interrogation is almost ineffective on him."

The document stated that White Pierre’s Level had reached 31, with a Spiritual Attribute as high as 84 points.

If he possessed Spirit Resistance Skills, indeed it would be difficult to find someone who could conduct a spiritual interrogation on him.

After some contemplation, Lu Heng opened the door of the observation room and walked over to push open the door into the interrogation room.

When Chen Linian saw someone coming in, he turned around and asked, "How did you get in?"

Lu Heng pointed to the surveillance camera and said, "Everyone besides Inspector Chen, leave, and then turn off the surveillance."

"Are you sure?" Chen Linian might have guessed what Lu Heng was planning to do.

He also wanted to quickly find useful clues because the higher-ups had already started to inquire about this case.

"Simple."

Once the others had left, Lu Heng walked up to White Pierre, staring into his eyes.

White Pierre’s eyes revealed a hint of arrogance, and he smirked coldly, saying, "Another clown."

He was confident because his spiritual power was among the first tier in the current phase of Superpower Users; nobody could extract useful information from him.

Lu Heng pulled out the Aurora Blade from the void, stabbed it into the back of his hand, pinning his palm to the table, then activated [Spiritual Dominance].

"Ah!"

White Pierre cried out in pain and looked at Lu Heng with surprise— he hadn’t expected this Da Xia person to dare physically assault him here.

In the moment their eyes met, he felt a surge of spiritual power flooding into his mind.

Following this, he lost consciousness and fell into a stupor.

Under normal circumstances, Superpower Users with a Spiritual Attribute around 80 points would find it difficult to perform spiritual torture on White Pierre.

Lu Heng’s base Spiritual Attribute was 83 points, and he wore a Spirit Resistance Ring on his left index finger that added 2 spiritual points, making it 85 points.

White Pierre’s Spiritual Attribute was also precisely 85 points.

Moreover, he was a Spiritual Superpower User, and nearly all his skills were of the spiritual type.

Thus, it was challenging for Lu Heng to conduct spiritual torture on him.

However, [Spiritual Dominance] was stronger than [Commanding Will] because this skill had an extra effect that temporarily increased the spiritual attribute by 5% when used.

This made Lu Heng’s 85 spiritual points increase to 89 points.

Additionally, Lu Heng had stabbed his palm with the Aurora Blade.

The Aurora Blade possessed a Level 3 [Spirit Slash] special effect.

[Spirit Slash LV3: Attacks include 16 points of spiritual damage and reduce the target’s Spiritual Attribute by 16 points.]

Thus, when the Aurora Blade pierced his palm, it directly decreased his Spiritual Attribute by 16 points.

As a result, White Pierre’s original 85 spiritual points were reduced to 69 points.