Everyone turned their heads in the direction that Adam was pointing at. There, they saw a corpse with a gaping hole in its chest and a dagger shaped like a raven feather pierced through the side of its head.
Sensing the remnant mana fluctuations around the corpse, all the councilors instantly understood that the corpse belonged to a Rank 3 - Mana Vortex Magus!
Instantly, all of them arrived before the corpse with a thunderstruck look on their faces. The corpse belonged to a pale, middle-aged man with a receding hairline.
The face still displayed shock and horror. One could only imagine what he must've gone through at the time of death.
Ives Ballard was the first one to react. With eyes completely wide in shock, he blurted out, "This is a Mana Vortex Magus! Do you expect all of us to believe that you, a mere Mana Liquefaction Magus, killed this man? Do you take us for fools?!"