Mage (Part 1)

The dead knight's armor was still in perfect shape. Only the mask on the face had been charred black. There were bits of carbon stuck around the holes for breathing.

One was able to deduce that when the knight had fallen, he'd been breathing fire. The fire was derived by burning the fats in the knight himself. His teeth were carbonized. When the flames shot out of the mask, the bits of carbon had gotten stuck to the holes.

The knight had been turned into a walking body of fire in purgatory.

They were burned as if had been sacrificed. This meant that there was no way the knight could have been saved using divine arts. Not even Theisio would have been able to do anything but watch the knight as he burned to death from the inside.

"Divine spell from the God of Purgatory I take it?" Saleen asked Nicholas.