Destroying Secrets

Rui stepped away, repulsed at what just happened. The old beggar died then and there after his brain spontaneously melted into slop, evidently on purpose.

"What the…" Rui frowned. "He killed himself after he relayed the message?"

From Rui understood, that beggar had been in the Kandrian Empire for quite some time.

Perhaps his entire life. 

And then, he killed himself just like that. 

"By melting his brain too." Rui was able to detect the internal process although he didn't understand how it worked.

He did understand why, though.

"The Beggar Sage's mind contains all the secrets of human civilization."

He was the most knowledgeable person in the entire world and the greatest intelligence broker ever.