Investigation

"your life is forever gone and not even your soul would remain!"with that final word, a silver light shot from Iliana's fingertip instantly turning into dust.

"Now what do we do?" Arc asked Iliana before a knock on the door was heard. "Is everything alright in here, I heard a really loud sound almost like a gunshot!" One of the two guards who rushed in said.

"Everything's fine, thanks for worrying!"

"You're welcome kid, you're pretty hurt badly, I bet his one of master cliff's slave, poor kid" The other guard said before they both walked away.

Few hours later, at the dinning hall at main House of the Baron....

"It's already late at night and lord cliff hasn't arrived, the Baron's son said I'm a worried tone.

The hall was extremely large for the fact it only had four chairs, it was well decorated with silvers and other precious stone, they were other servants and attendants standing at the edge of the room.

"I did ask the gate keepers if he went out but they said no, he must be around here somewhere, hey kane, I want you to conduct a full search on the house and around find my brother!" The Baron finally said what his son wanted to here, as a matter of fact the look on his face says he could care less what happens to his brother.

***Two days later***

After two days the search started to get intense as even a master mage detective to investigate the situation. At the end two people were latter being held as prime suspects, the chief maid Elena, and one of the low ranking servants Arc.

[In a well confined room]

"Now did master cliff ever busted your room the day he went missing?" The detective mage asked Arc who was sitting on a wooden chair opposite him. "Yes, but he only came to warm me about me slacking off!" Arc said with a calm voice as he was already good at adapting to different situations.

"Now I have one simple question to ask you! Are you a mage?" He asked this time with a twisted time as if he already knew the answer.

"No sir, I'm simply a humble servant!" Arc replied with a little but of tension in his voice. "Your voice says otherwise, your shaking...But! But my eyes can see through lies and you're not lieng! But, there was a very powerful mama residue in your room, like a powerful mage attacked someone, not to mention there's a similar man's to the master's gold trigger care to explain that!"

"That happened when he came to warm me, he got angry and shot at me but his bullet didn't reach me, maybe he missed on purpose!" Arc concluded as he clenched his fist under the table, it was at that moment that the Baron himself saw the real truth behind it but still chose to remain silent.

"There's no way my brother with his pride would ever miss a bullet from his idolized summon, he wouldn't even pull a trigger to a lowly slave, this kid is lying but the detective doesn't know, or maybe he isn't lying, he just isn't telling the truth." The Baron thought to himself as he stared at Arc.

"Fine, you can go! Bring in the next suspect!"

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"Elena, was it. Now answer my question honestly, do you habour hatred to the maste?" Everywhere was silent for a while with all eyes fixed on Elena.

"No!" She said with a slight stutter as the detective took a deep breath before smiling. "You're lying, now do you have any intention o killing the aster or acting evil on him?"

....

"No!"

"You lie again!" And at that moment everybody in the room already concluded it was Elena who did it, upon every question she was found guilty of lying, for some reason the only question the truth was heard was....."Did you kill the Master?" He asked but then with a desperate voice Elena screamed "No!!! I did not, I would never!"

. "This is really confusing, she is telling the truth!"

"Now that's enough! I just rememberd something!" The Baron said as all eyes were on him. "It seems age as taking its toll on me, he recently told me that he would be going to visit a very old friend and would take a month or two in his travels, so everyone can now go home!" Said the Baron with a low voice as everyone knew he was lying but dare not disobey.

[Back at Arc's Log Cabin]

"Why do you think the Baron would lie like that?" Arc asked Iliana who appeared from thin air. "Who knows why human makes such decision! Anyways do you still plan on staying here?" Iliana asked with a keen interest.

"Well now that I think of it, I really don't know!"Arc replied as he fell on his bed flat on his back, just then a soft knock was heard in his door as he rushed to open it.

"(Gasp) lord Armstrong!" Arc was so shocked that the baron had come alone to his room, he couldn't think of any other reason for him to come other that the truth!

"Arc wasn't it?, we need to talk"