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.

the incidents shuddered in fear

when he faced Arkham or Stragabor today.

& gentle smile, was an aura of absolute

man beyond the Grandmaster level?] Kahn asked

killing intent towards Kahn at all. He was simply

Kahn, Stragabor & Arkham could notice and feel the pressure of this aura. Rest were simply too weak to even notice that Solomon was releasing

of Kahn and looked towards

you?! Why are you interfering?" asked Stragabor

we don't want people to say that we did not cooperate with the authorities during the investigation."

of any of his claims?" asked Solomon, however he no longer

kill his people either." said

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

half the crowd walked out of association hall. Many officials including Malcolm walked with them as

the association, many of which had different types of lizard-ish, horse

all reached the law enforcement hall which was 2 times bigger than the Adventurer Association building, guarded by a garrison of soldiers and weapons placed at the walls. After Stragabor and his team entered and filed the case about the deaths of their men, the

investigation but as soon as the officer saw the 3 strongest adventurers in the entire city in 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 different rooms including Kahn, Malcolm, the

except for the killing as if he really didn't know what

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 as proof

clothes, just not the ones he was wearing before the

questioning as the only witness

Kahn never looked like he had a fight or had any bruises or blood on him when he met Elanev in Black Griffin Merchant Enterprise, he too believed that Kahn was innocent and answered everything he knew

testimony about Kahn's performance as an excellent swordsman during the assessment test also came in

even receiving a scratch on his body was found laughable by many witnesses as

done by a monster with sharp teeth and incredibly strong claws as some of the hard armor worn by the dead people was torn and had markings of the

on its way, the investigation was

being innocent of the crime since the murder site and mutilated bodies hinted a group of

found not guilty of any of the