"The imperial family?" Lothur asked the old woman with an interested expression.
"Yes, someone with that surname was involved in an incident with someone from that family back then. I don't know what happened, but it is a fact that the Imperial forces persecuted that person then."
The imperial family of the Petha Empire did not look down on hybrids. But that didn't mean they worshipped them and would never see a problem with their actions!
Depending on what a hybrid did, the imperial family of such a state would persecute them, just as they would humans who broke their rules.
"Can you tell me more about this?"
"I don't know many things, young man. But that persecution led to several battles near where we are now, and those clashes certainly caused some casualties.
I remember hearing that some of my people even took part in the incident, thus weakening this state's relations with the Ancestral Region in the following centuries." She sighed, remembering how difficult the first years after the expulsion from the Ancestral Region had been.
"The Petha Empire has always been friendly to hybrids. But it was a dark time for us when we had to hide even from the Imperial forces.
Things only got better a few centuries later. Coincidentally, things got better after the former emperor died."
"Oh?" Lothur's eyes narrowed. He liked to hear that.
To him, it meant that if Verna and Mathias' family was behind this report, then the imperial family of this state might know what happened to them after that time.
"After that, I can say that this family is dead." She said, looking into Lothur's eyes. "Whether these people survived or had children, I don't know. But they definitely gave up their family name."
She remembered this because the time she had arrived at this place had been very remarkable for her.
She was pregnant at that time and had gone through many difficulties because of that incident. As a result, she paid attention to many news reports at that time and noticed that this family name had disappeared after a new ruler came to power.
Since then, the same person had ruled the empire, and the imperial family had never mentioned that name or the incident again, which was strange.
Usually, powers like the imperial family used such cases to remind their subjects and vassals to follow the rules or historical cases could repeat themselves. But strangely, this case had disappeared from local history, and a few centuries after the incident, the whole state seemed to have returned to normal, as if it had never had any problems with these hybrids.
"It makes sense..." Lothur pondered as he scratched his chin, imagining that a change of surname would protect possible survivors.
"Well, I want to stay in this village for a few days to investigate something." He said as he got up from his seat and threw an item at the woman.
When she looked at it, she immediately recognized the item as belonging to an old acquaintance of hers.
"Where did you get this?" She asked in surprise.
"I met a person who gave it to me a few days ago after I passed through a village like this. He told me I could use it to get to this village." Lothur replied, assuaging any concerns she might have had.
"That... Then why were you acting like that earlier?" She frowned.
If Lothur had shown it from the beginning, the previous situation would never have developed.
"I planned to use that, but one of your men didn't let me finish introducing myself when he arrogantly rejected me. Why would I use a peaceful approach with someone like that?" Lothur said, dissatisfied with that person's behavior earlier.
The woman said nothing when she heard that. Some hybrids of Ancestral Folk were arrogant in front of humans.
...
After leaving the house of the village's main expert, Lothur stopped in the center of the area and sat down near a large tree.
He then activated "One With Nature," causing his powerful level 21 aura to show itself to everyone in the village.
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm His ability kicked in, bringing to his mind various information about things that this tree had once witnessed as he traveled through its memories, going back in time.
Lothur thought it would not be worthwhile to investigate an area he was not sure these people had been through. He didn't even know what they looked like, so it would be foolish to search for them without even having the place where those people had passed.
But since he knew there was a high chance that those people had passed through the vicinity of this village, he immediately decided to "go back in time" to see what had happened there.
If he was lucky, he could get the information about what happened to Verna's children and this woman.
As he did so, the people of that village soon noticed Lothur's powerful investigative skill and were shocked to sense something like that.
'This is a very good skill...' The woman who answered his questions thought to herself, seeing something in Lothur she had only seen in some of the Ancestral Folk members.
The Ancestral Folk had the closest lineage to nature in this world, so some of its members had high compatibility with nature to feel or even see what trees, small creatures, and animals could tell from their experience.
Seeing a 'human' with such a characteristic was a surprise to this expert, but when she felt the spiritual fluctuations of Lothur's powerful Spirit Body, she understood why he had such an ability and gave off a feeling of being a superior being.
She couldn't tell how many Soul Bones Lothur had, but from the strength of his Spirit Body that seemed to support him, she could estimate that he already had more than 60% of that full essence.
'He's a demon hunter, probably a very talented one!'
...
For the next few days, Lothur would continue to use his abilities and delve deeper and deeper into the past of that area.
It wasn't easy to process the memory of the vegetation, so it had taken Lothur most of the time until now just to go back 2,800 years.
But this morning, he had finally managed to do so and was now calmly analyzing what the vegetation in the area had witnessed back then!
As he moved through the memories of the vegetation, like skipping the boring parts of a video, he came to a critical point where a battle was developing.
When he noticed this, his eyebrows drew together, and he returned a few moments from that memory to see the beginning of that incident.
'Could this be it?'
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