With this connection, this case could basically be judged as a copycat crime. The main purpose was to rob technological assets, while the hand-chopping was just a smokescreen.
Alex recalled Glen's signaling gaze just now. For Arbiters like Hughes and Wood, the investigation process required physical evidence and strict logic; finding the culprit meant trying to solve the case based on small clues like tire tracks or testimony.
But as a believer of the Goddess of Darkness like Glen, and Alex - who held the Necro-Speaker ability - they could use their specific methods to find the true culprit much faster.
That was to directly ask the victim's soul.
This way of making the dead speak directly was certainly much more direct and accurate than taking a detour and speculating based on scattered clues. But within the Church of the Goddess of Light, and even in the ordinary laws of the empire, this method of questioning souls was defined as sorcery and strictly forbidden.
