Hero of Darkness

Chapter 24: The Investigation

The hall was completely silent as soon as an overbearing and majestic voice of the President of adventurer association echoed inside the hall.

Suddenly, half of the people present in the hall bowed in respect towards the Mage who was descending from the stairs.

"Solomon, my brother & men were killed yesterday! We just found their bodies this morning outside of West city gates. I need to find the murderer and this man is a suspect!" shouted Stragabor, the giant man & the leader of the Groundhog Adventurer team.

"That's President Solomon for you." said Arkham who standing right behind the Mage as he did not like Stragabor addressing the middle-aged Elf without honorifics.

President Solomon raised his hand and stopped Arkham midway as he gazed at Kahn and then Stragabor.

"That's your personal matter. But it gives you no right to cause a commotion here. Besides, do you really think you can do whatever you want or kill anyone inside Adventurer Association while I'm here?" the Mage Elf said as he stared at Stragabor with no fear or any type of emotions in his eyes at all.

"Or are you trying to say that you no longer acknowledge my authority?" asked the President in a gentle tone, trying to see the reaction on the huge man's face.

"I don't give two shits about you & your authority, Solomon. This man is a suspect of killing my men so I'm here to take him in my custody and ask some questions." said Stragabor as he rebuked the President of Adventurer Association right in front of hundreds of people.

"How dare you insult the President?!" shouted Arkham as he put his hand on the sword that was hanging on his waist. His deadly killing aura erupting like a volcano and raising the temperature of the entire hall by few degrees.

"Then why isn't anyone from City Law Enforcement hall or someone from Law Enforcer Squad here? Why is it only you & your team?" asked the Elven Mage.

This question surprised everyone present in the hall as well. Why wasn't anyone from authority here to take Kahn into custody if Stragabor only wanted the culprit of his brother & men's murder found?

"Or could it be that you don't wish to investigate by the rules of the law & just beat a confession out of the man without having any proof?" asked the pesident as he revealed the other side of the coin.

This made sense to many because Adventurers didn't have any right to make any lawful arrests or take someone for custody under the name of investigation.

"Don't try to twist logic with me.. 'President'. I'm only here to see the criminal brought to justice. What's wrong with that?" asked Stragabor with contempt in his eyes.

Not only was he enraged, but he also wanted to kill the murderer with his hand. But Solomon's reasoning brought his intentions to light in front of so many people.

"Is that so? Then how about I & Arkham accompany you to law enforcement hall then? We too want to see justice being brought to your people's murderer." said Solomon with a benign smile on his face.

of all the incidents shuddered in

mind, so much louder than when he faced Arkham or Stragabor today. His instincts telling him

& gentle smile, was an aura

the Grandmaster level?] Kahn asked himself

directing his killing intent towards Kahn at all.

present here, only Kahn, Stragabor & Arkham could notice and feel the pressure of this aura. Rest were simply too

gaze of Kahn and looked towards him with

does it have to do with you?! Why are

it does concern the association as we don't want people to say that we did not cooperate with the authorities during the investigation." said

any of his claims?" asked Solomon, however he no longer exuded any sort of aura as he stood

innocent. And I don't have any reason to kill his people either." said Kahn as he folded his

on my name that no one will harm you as long as I'm around." said Solomon with a benign expression as

said Kahn as half the crowd walked out of association hall. Many officials including Malcolm walked with them as they were the witnesses

owned by the association, many of which had different types of lizard-ish, horse type monsters and steed pulling the carriages; all the involved parties

Adventurer Association building, guarded by a garrison of soldiers and weapons

front of him, the matter was sent to the top-rank authorities and judges in just an hour. Soon, some official investigators started questioning all the involved parties in

the killing as if he

hall sent few top-ranking soldiers to all the places he mentioned including the City Library where Kahn spent his longest time. Kahn being the calculative guy he was, still kept the library pass

mentioned the color of his clothes, just not the

the only witness of

blood on him when he met Elanev in Black Griffin Merchant Enterprise,

the assessment test also came in Kahn's favor as the only weapon he was known to be excellent

even receiving a scratch on his body was found laughable by

injuries on the dead bodies indicating that they were done by a monster with sharp teeth and incredibly strong claws as some of the

finally on its way, the investigation was done

crime since the murder site and mutilated bodies hinted a group

verdict came and Kahn was found not guilty of any of the charges, the people from