Chapter 135 Distant Visitors

Dawn had not yet risen, and the early hours found Longka still engulfed in silence.

Within the dim confines of the prison, Leon stared at the corpse in front of him as if it were frozen in time, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

"Leon, this is a wound caused by a spear thrusting straight through from the front. The shape and depth of the wound couldn't have been made by a sword or dagger," Olivia, who had hurried over with her lover, pressed down the hem of her skirt and crouched down to carefully examine the rigid and kneeling burly corpse of Canis.

"Just like this," she said as she stood up, took a step back, and mimed holding the shaft of an invisible spear, thrusting forward to try and recreate the sole piercing strike that killed Canis.

"...The front," Leon muttered, furrowing his brow as he watched the girl's simulated attack, his mind attempting to reconstruct the assassination.

There was no doubt that Canis had been awake just before his death.